Stepping into Society
Following her 2017 arrest for using drugs in her home, Phimpha* has spent the last five years living in the Vientiane Capital Social Welfare Center. This center is where the government sends the homeless,...
Friends-International / Laos - Peuan Mit / News From Our Programs / Restaurants and Shops
by Friends-International · Published August 19, 2022 · Last modified September 2, 2022
Following her 2017 arrest for using drugs in her home, Phimpha* has spent the last five years living in the Vientiane Capital Social Welfare Center. This center is where the government sends the homeless,...
Cambodia - Mith Samlanh and Kaliyan Mith / ChildSafe Alliance / ChildSafe Alliance / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published March 16, 2022
The Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) is a long-standing ChildSafe Alliance/3PC partner organization. They are based in Siem Reap province, Cambodia. The Friends-International Kaliyan Mith Siem Reap (KMSR) program, also partners in 3PC and...
Unlocking Opportunities In Part Two of this look at how the Futures team builds futures in the time of COVID-19, the focus falls on two young women, and the challenges they faced in finding...
by Friends-International · Published October 21, 2020 · Last modified October 27, 2020
Part One In Cambodia in 2016 Friends-International (FI) launched a specialized employment project named Futures alongside their ChildSafe Alliance partner M’lop Tapang. Futures provides employment support, including access to job and training opportunities, hard...
by Friends-International · Published August 6, 2019 · Last modified February 19, 2020
In part one of this look at the origins of Friends-International (FI) we heard how they began building futures with the street children of Phnom Penh. We left the story as the original group...
No choice but to go? Human beings have always migrated. Conflict, natural disaster, even politics play a role in forcing people to move, and often they have no choice but to do so. However,...
Keo* is originally from a small Hmong community in Luang Prabang province, Laos. He used to live with his parents, his brother and five sisters. His father is growing rice in the land next...
25th Anniversary / 3PC / Celebrations / ChildSafe Alliance / ChildSafe Movement / Events / Futures Factory / Launches and Openings / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published January 3, 2019
2019 is a very important year indeed for Friends-International. August will mark 25 years since the launch of the very first Friends program, Mith Samlanh, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 25 years on, and that...
Conferences and Awards / News From Our Programs / TREE Alliance
by Friends-International · Published December 5, 2018
This fascinating and exciting update on TREE Alliance at Gastromotiva 2018 comes via Anton Ventslav, TREE Chef Coordinator, based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. “TREE Alliance was among those invited to the 2nd ever Social Gastronomy Summit, ‘Gastromotiva...
3PC / ChildSafe / ChildSafe Movement / Friends-International / News From Our Programs / Pushing the Agenda
by Friends-International · Published November 8, 2018
In Cambodia, Friends-International has worked closely with the Government, other agencies and partnerships such as 3PC, for over ten years now in ending the plight of the thousands of children who have been unnecessarily...
Cambodia - Mith Samlanh and Kaliyan Mith / News From Our Programs / Restaurants and Shops / TREE Alliance
by Friends-International · Published June 11, 2018 · Last modified June 26, 2018
Business is very much a part of the work undertaken by Friends-International programs. As a social enterprise, we ensure hands on experience for our young trainees in real business environments, enabling them to better move...
3PC / Cambodia - Mith Samlanh and Kaliyan Mith / ChildSafe Alliance / ChildSafe Alliance / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published January 18, 2018 · Last modified January 24, 2018
We spoke recently with Pisith, who is the Building Futures Program coordinator at Mith Samlanh, a ChildSafe Alliance and 3PC partner program which operates in Phnom Penh Cambodia. He talked to us about Yin,...
ChildSafe Alliance / ChildSafe Alliance / Friends-International / Launches and Openings / News From Our Programs
by Friends-International · Published October 10, 2017
Access to employment is key in ensuring that individuals will have a stable and sustainable future ahead of them. A couple of years ago we took the years of experience we had in working...
Having your own transport, such as a bike, is at once both liberating and empowering, particularly if you live in a remote or inaccessible location. However, what if you simply cannot afford that as...
Cambodia - Mith Samlanh and Kaliyan Mith / Friends-International / Fundraising / Pushing the Agenda / Restaurants and Shops
by Friends-International · Published December 28, 2016
“Some days are so difficult. But when I just don’t think I can survive, I wait by the side of the road. After 10 minutes, I see a Friends Social worker drive past, without fail....
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