Friends-International Blog

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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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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From: Sebastien Banda Aceh, Indonesia Tamo and I arrived in Aceh and went straight to the office to meet the team. The first thing we saw was our Mobile Center: it is entirely tagged in bright fluorescent yellow and more… Quite a shock: it seems that when we said “let the children be creative”, it [...]

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Teman Baik has a new mobile drop –in center in the Social Department Center in Aceh, Indonesia. The mobile center in the Social Department Center is for marginalized children and youth (who may be victims of abuse, who have dropped out of school or are street children, etc). There are about 100 children and youth [...]

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The first 8 Childsafe members to join the ChildSafe Network in Bandah Aceh have been certified. The members are all Bekak drivers, who will now play an active role in protecting children from abuse in Aceh. At a ceremony at the Dinsos Park, the Teman Baik team recognised the drivers for successfully completing their training [...]

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