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 [...]
Posted in Friends-International, Makphet, News, Peuan Mit, Stories From The Field0 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in ChildSafe, Friends-International, News, Teman Baik0 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Friends-International, Mith Samlanh, Stories From The Field2 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Friends-International, International Families Day, Mith Samlanh, Stories From The Field0 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Friends-International, News, Peuan Mit0 Comments
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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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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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 [...]
Posted in Events, Friends-International, fundraising, News0 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in ChildSafe, CYTI Alliance, Friends-International, M’Lop Tapang, News, Peuan Peuan, Stories From The Field0 Comments
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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Added on 13 June 2013
London Calling…
Phon’s story – from drugs and rubbish tips, to a real future…
Romdeng’s Famous (Harlem) Shake!
A Day In The Life – Green House Social Worker
Happy Birthday M’Lop Tapang!
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