{"id":4848,"date":"2016-03-24T12:29:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T05:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/?p=4848"},"modified":"2016-03-24T12:29:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T05:29:20","slug":"together-building-futures-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/together-building-futures-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Together, building futures&#8230; with &#8216;Futures&#8217;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FUTURESBK1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4850\" src=\"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FUTURESBK1-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"FUTURESBK1\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FUTURESBK1-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FUTURESBK1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Futures&#8217; is an exciting new initiative and approach for Cambodia, powered by Friends and\u00a0implemented by partner NGOs \u00a0Mith Samlanh and M&#8217;Lop Tapang with the\u00a0tagline &#8211; \u201cTogether creating employment and entrepreneurs\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FUTURESRK2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4853\" src=\"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FUTURESRK2-300x105.jpg\" alt=\"FUTURESRK2\" width=\"300\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FUTURESRK2-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FUTURESRK2-1024x360.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Futures&#8217; is about getting young people who lack opportunities access to dignified and gainful employment, so they can grow into productive citizens of their countries, whilst also nurturing successful entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FUTURESRK1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4852\" src=\"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FUTURESRK1-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"FUTURESRK1\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FUTURESRK1-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FUTURESRK1.jpg 861w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How does it do that? By welcoming those young people and their caretakers into the &#8216;Futures&#8217; centers, friendly and welcoming environments where we connect them with real opportunities from reputable and supportive employers and support and encourage them fully through the process.We actively encourage entrepreneurship also, bringing those with ideas into contact with clients and supporting them to grow their businesses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FuturesBK1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4849\" src=\"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FuturesBK1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"FuturesBK1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FuturesBK1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FuturesBK1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an innovative and high impact project where working together builds real futures for these youth, for their families, their communities, and ultimately for society as a whole, so they can benefit from employment or are\u00a0better prepared to run their own business or to work within an existing company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FUTURESBK2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4851\" src=\"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FUTURESBK2-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"FUTURESBK2\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FUTURESBK2-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FUTURESBK2.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the few days since the soft opening of &#8216;Futures&#8217;\u00a0centers\u00a0in Phnom Penh (Borei Keila and Russei Keo districts) and Sihanoukville, we&#8217;ve had very encouraging results indeed &#8211; already one placement in Sihanoukville and five in Phnom Penh, with jobs\u00a0ranging from work with an internet company to at an international airport!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Futures&#8217; is an exciting new initiative and approach for Cambodia, powered by Friends and\u00a0implemented by partner NGOs \u00a0Mith Samlanh and M&#8217;Lop Tapang with the\u00a0tagline &#8211; \u201cTogether creating employment and entrepreneurs\u201d &nbsp; &#8216;Futures&#8217; is about&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,29,8,421],"tags":[512,513,68,509,511,425,510,295,439,203,514,222,235,306,250,265,305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4854,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions\/4854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}