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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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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Vuthaya Charoenpol (Ann), our Country Program Manager for Thailand sent us this recent piece on a fantastic fun-filled day held in one of the communities the Peuan Peuan team works with in Bangkok. ‘Saturday 12th January was national Children’s Day in Thailand. Peuan Peuan along with other local authorities and companies organized fun activities for [...]

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No, nothing to do with Lou Reed, but an unforgettable day for the Bangkok Peuan Peuan team as they share their work with a visiting dignitary from Sweden is recalled by Peuan Peuan Country Program Director Vuthaya Charoenpal (Ann) in this blogpost. ‘The Perfect Day! 2nd October 2012: A visit from H.E. Maria Larsson, 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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What does our tagline ‘Together, Building Futures’ really mean? For the young man in this story, it means many others working alongside him to help him shape a better tomorrow for himself… and his family. This is Vuthy’s story. It is not his real name, but everything else in this story is real. This story [...]

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Vuthaya Charoenpol (Ann) is the Country Program Director of the Friends Peuan Peuan program in Thailand. She is based in Bangkok, but in our ‘story from the field’ from her today, we travel with her on one of her frequent visits to the Aran Project, on the border between Thailand and Cambodia. Visiting Peuan Peuan [...]

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The floods which swept across SE Asia last year wrought devastation, death and distress in many already vulnerable communities. They also galvanized Governments and agencies into action to alleviate the impact, and many instances have emerged of excellent collaborative work responding to the crisis. Our own programs worked tirelessly to assist victims of the waters, [...]

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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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