Friends-International Blog

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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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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Menghourng Ngo reports on the excitement and achievement of the Mith Samlanh graduation ceremony held last week in Phnom Penh. ‘On Friday last week, Mith Samlanh held a graduation ceremony for its students at Club Friends. The students who successfully graduated came from the many different Mith Samlanh vocational training classes – skills, life skills [...]

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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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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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Sosense, a Swiss social enterprise platform, has chosen Friends-International as one of six ‘inspiring organizations’ for its Education matching campaign. This campaign begins Monday, July 16th and will run for two weeks until Friday, July 27th. All funds raised via sosense.org within this campaign period will be doubled up to a limit of 25,000 Swiss [...]

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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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Being a superhero means it’s really hard to find the time to learn about the important things in life that keep us healthy, thriving and happy – lifeskills! Fortunately the Peuan Mit program in Lao PDR has a mobile school (the Peuan Mitmobile!) staffed by their own brand of superheroes that can go out to [...]

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