Friends-International Blog

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 [...]

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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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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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Coinciding with International Children’s Day, we are delighted to announce the online launch of the Friends-International Annual Report 2011 on June 1st 2012. Reaching out to over 55,000 individuals during 2011, the report details the global impact of the four programs powered by Friends-International – Friends Programs, the CYTI Alliance, the ChildSafe Network and Friends [...]

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Friends-International CYTI Alliance technical advisors travel the globe offering support and advice to our partner organizations in the Alliance. As he comes to the end of his time working for FI, former CYTI coordinator Pierre tells us of a day in his working life, the last one of 3,287 spent with FI, full of (amongst [...]

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On August 18, 2011 the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSAVY), renewed its memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Friends-International, allowing us to work in Cambodia for the next three years. In his speech, Executive Director Sebastien Marot said “for the last 17 years Friends-International has operated in Cambodia. Mith Samlanh, our first [...]

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A  story from Cairo by Pierre, our International CYTI Alliance Coordinator. Friends and its partners work with street children and marginalized youth providing a wide range of educational activities such as literacy and numeracy, vocational training and education on local culture and traditions. Life skills education is a very important part of these activities. Friends defines [...]

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After a long, long trip we arrived in Cairo where Pierre and Mohamed were waiting patiently. We showered, ate an interesting Egyptian sandwich and refreshed with a lovely mango juice. Taking the subway from the very famous Tarhir square we headed in the direction of the Salem center of FACE For Children in Need*. We [...]

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Putchica*, writing a nice field story about our work in Tegucigalpa is not easy… For four years the CYTI Alliance team has been working closely with two alliance members in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras in Central America. Casa Asti is an NGO working with street living children and youth, and Alternativas Y Oportunidades (AyO) [...]

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Friends-International is very proud to support our global partners in the CYTI Alliance who continue to do their work in often trying and extremely difficult circumstances. Recently our thoughts have turned to our partners Casa Asti in Honduras, and FACE and Al Mawa in Egypt. We have heard very harrowing news from the director of [...]

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