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Graduation Day!

Menghourng Ngo reports on the excitement and achievement of the Mith Samlanh graduation ceremony held last week in Phnom Penh. ‘On Friday last week, Mith Samlanh held a graduation ceremony for its students at Club Friends. The students who successfully graduated came from the many different Mith Samlanh vocational training classes – skills, life skills [...]

Phon’s story – from drugs and rubbish tips, to a real future…

Last week we heard from Phanith, social worker at the Green House detoxification and rehabilitation center for drug using youth, in Phnom Penh. He told us about a typical day at the center, where drug using youth have the opportunity to clean up and consider their future plans supported by the professionals working there. Today [...]

Painting Activities at Green House

A Day In The Life – Green House Social Worker

In this edition of ‘A Day In The Life’ we are introduced to Phanith, social worker at the Green House Detoxification and Rehabilitation Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Green House is an important step for the drug using youth that we work with in Phnom Penh. After completing their time at the center young people [...]

Happy Birthday M’Lop Tapang!

Saturday 1st June 2013 was a very exciting and important day in Cambodia. Not only did International Children’s Day fall on that date, but it was also the day that our long-standing partner organization, M’Lop Tapang, celebrated its tenth anniversary! Named after the sheltering Tapang (umbrella) tree, the organization was started by a small group [...]

On The Road

28 May 2013

This story comes from our Peuan Mit team who are based in Vientiane in Lao PDR, and highlights an issue that is very much in the news across SE Asia – road safety. Peuan Mit staff, alongside vocational training students from the mechanics class and Makphet training restaurant in Vientiane have participated in a two [...]

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Indonesia Blog #1 – ‘Gettin’ started in Jakarta’

27 May 2013

Things are moving fast for our Teman Baik program in Indonesia. Country Program Director, Ghislain, gives us a unique insight on their progress. This, a rare opportunity for us to show you how Friends programs are built, is only the first of a series: think of it as the making of a Friends Program! Keep following [...]

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Andong Fathers On The Big Screen(s)!

21 May 2013

Andong community on the outskirts of Phnom Penh is now a hive of  Home Based Production activity,and a great place to illustrate that as well as female caregivers, male caregivers can be actively involved in production activities to support their families through income generation. The community center is home to a screen printing project, creating [...]

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Family Matters!

15 May 2013

On International Families Day, one Cambodian mother recalls how the Mith Samlanh program supported her to keep her family together… ‘My husband died leaving me with six children, so I moved to Phnom Penh in search of work. It was very difficult and I didn’t have enough money to send my kids to school here [...]

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Microscholarships for Peuan Mit Students!

09 May 2013

Last month, the US embassy in Lao PDR approached Peuan Mit to identify youth for an English Access Microscholarship Program as they were striving to find the most disadvantaged students in Vientiane. This highly effective training program is designed to provide a significant English-language learning experience to bright non-elite 14- to 18- year-old students. Funded [...]

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Blue Jeans and Cool Beads!

08 May 2013

Today a team from Levi Strauss & Co., who are corporate supporters of Friends-International, arrived at our Phnom Penh headquarters on a mission. That mission? To find out more about Friends, the work we do, and in particular how our Home Based Production initiative works to support caregivers to put their children to school. First [...]

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A Week Of Sharing (and more!) At Friends

25 April 2013

This week has seen Friends Board Members, Program Directors, International Coordinators, managers and staff from across the world gathering together in Phnom Penh at the FI HQ building for our annual sharing meeting. This is a rare opportunity for us all to get together, to share our achievement from the previous year and to look [...]

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Baking And Making A Difference – Thanks To Jessica And Her Friends!

25 April 2013

We have some truly fabulous supporters at Friends-International, and one of those is 14 year-old Jessica Brandon from Los Angeles, California. Along with her friends Emma Kofman, and Hannah Kelson, Jessica recently organized a neighborhood bake sale to raise funds to support our activities, and raised an amazing $435 on the day (thanks to Jessica’s [...]

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Learning together, sharing together! M’Lop Tapang come to Bangkok!

05 April 2013

Cambodian Sihanoukville-based NGO M’Lop Tapang is a long standing Friends CYTI Alliance partner.  Within the CYTI Alliance, sharing of best practice is a key outcome for Alliance members. So it was with great excitement that our Friends-International Peuan Peuan (Thailand) program team based in Bangkok said ‘welcome’ this week to a team from M’Lop Tapang [...]

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Friends named a ‘successful example of Social Entrepreneurship’ at high-profile NYC event.

04 April 2013

Our recently appointed US Funding Officer, Iris Sagi, was in attendance to hear the work of Friends-International being praised at a high profile social entrepreneurship event held last Friday in New York City. The event was the premiere of the movie “The Revolutionary Optimist”  and it was followed by a conversation with the host,  Bill [...]

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