Friends-International Blog

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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As Friends turns 18 years old today, we join our longest serving staff members who share their memories of joining and working with us over the years… living examples of the truth behind our tagline, ‘Together, Building Futures’, we thank them for their hard work and commitment over the years. Of course thanks also to you, our [...]

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Work is progressing well on the latest addition to the TREE Alliance restaurants, ‘Marum’ in Siem Reap, Cambodia. We have had the following update from TREE coordinator Gustav Auer, who is with the team in Siem Reap as work continues on this exciting new project… Work is well underway on the newest restaurant in the [...]

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Ampor, our program director in Siem Reap, has given us this update on the floods there. “In Siem Reap the river has overflowed for the 4th consecutive time since 9th October. The level of water had been more or less stable, but during last weekend, it started to increase fast due to heavy rain. Now [...]

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Many of the flood waters in Siem Reap and elsewhere have now receded, although two thirds of the communities we work in are still facing high levels of water. Our Kaliyan Mith teams have been taking stock of the situation. Sadly, one of our beneficiaries, a 15-year old young woman from Chong Koasou community, drowned [...]

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Ampor Sam-Oeun is the program director of Friend’s program Kaliyan Mith in Siem Reap. As the situation with flooding there worsens, she has sent us an e-mail to update us. You can read some excerpts from that mail below, which give a real on-the-spot sense of the issues and pressures faced by the teams… ‘Hi [...]

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Dear Friends of Friends The latest news on the flood situation in Siem Reap is that although flood waters continue to recede, our teams are working with a greater number of families as more needs are identified. In summary, there are now 13 communities affected, and 59 families are receiving emergency food support and other [...]

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An overnight decrease in the general water levels has eased the crisis for many in Siem Reap – however, we are still very concerned about the situation in the three most affected communities, Wat Svay, Dey Koh and Kok Chok, and our teams are out checking these communities and we will keep you updated. Our [...]

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The flash floods of last Sunday in Siem Reap coupled with heavy rain at the beginning of the week have badly affected many of the marginalized communities and vulnerable families that our Kaliyan Mith program works with in that area. At the moment 34 families from 10 communities are very seriously affected by the flooding and are [...]

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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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