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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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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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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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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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Marissa Carruthers is a journalist from the UK who is currently writing a series of articles about Friends-International. We are delighted that she has contributed this guest blog post to us, giving her personal perspective on the work we are doing in Cambodia… thanks Marissa ‘I can remember during my first trip to Cambodia the [...]

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With support from UNICEF and innovative collaboration with The Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (MoSDHS), the Peuan Peuan Program started in Thailand back in 2006. Initially the Peuan Peuan team provided services to vulnerable children and youth in Royal Thai Government Shelters, and also support to their parents/ caretakers to empower them to [...]

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This week, the Peuan Peuan team partnered with The Sukosol Hotel to establish a new sales outlet for its Home Based Production products. The Sukosol Hotel is a luxury 5 Star Hotel in central Bangkok that was delighted at the opportunity to offer their guests our unique Home Based Production products through their on-site gift [...]

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In this post James, our Communications Coordinator, goes on a field visit to the Kaliyan Mith Cham Chao project on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, to find out how inner city problems are being relocated to the outer parts of the city, and what Friends is doing about it. “It’s not that often I get [...]

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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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Back in July, the Peuan Peuan program in Bangkok had some celebrity visitors, the twin sisters, Neoy and Jam, who make up Thai pop singing sensations Neko Jump. They wanted to find out for themselves just how social businesses can work to assist some of the most marginalized in society. The girls, appearing on the [...]

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