Friends-International Blog

A Friends-International project funded by UNICEF and run in collaboration with the Cambodian Ministry of Social Affairs Veterans & Youth Rehabilitation (MOSAVY) was officially launched on Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 at the MOSAVY building. The program, ‘Partnership Programme with Civil Society Organizations to Strengthen Child Protection Systems’, more readily known as 3PC, will run over [...]

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Each year, thousands of tourists visit orphanages in Cambodia thinking they are helping some of the most vulnerable children in the world. Recent reports however have found their visits may be doing more harm than good. Nearing midnight on Pub Street, Siem Reap is buzzing. Hundreds, if not thousands of tourists roam from bar to [...]

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UNICEF and Friends-International recently stepped into a partnership to develop an innovative Child Protection program involving a number of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) throughout five provinces in Cambodia where children are exposed to numerous risks and vulnerabilities. In June and July, in close link with the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY), [...]

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Manchester United footballing legend Bryan Robson paid a visit to our Peuan Peuan Thailand program activities in Bangkok earlier this month, writes Vuthaya Charoenpol, our country program director for Thailand. Robson, along with Man Utd Foundation Chief Executive John Shiels, was on a visit to UNICEF supported initiatives in the country and saw at first [...]

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