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International Support Offices

Friends-International is organized as a federation of International Support Offices.

All International Support Offices follow and respect a common Charter. This Charter includes and covers issues and standards of procedures relating to:

  • Objectives
  • Quality of services
  • Communication systems
  • Administrative procedures

In their work, each International Support Office:

  • Has a specialty
  • Raises funds and promotes Friends’ activities and projects
  • Can carry out specific work at the request of the field projects
  • Runs common advocacy campaigns
 

Friends-International France
Fédération mondiale en faveur des enfants de la rue

Activities:

  • Organization of various cultural fund-raising events, including art exhibitions and concerts.
  • Exhibition of street children photography
  • Comic book project featuring a series of French and Belgian comic artists

The team is composed of:

Denis MAROT
President
Consultant

Choti POU
Vice-President
Agronomist

Annegret MAROT
Treasurer
Not employed

Olivier FARHI
Vice-Treasurer
Company Director

Marie Hélène AUBREE
Secretary
Personal Assistant

Anne-Marika de LAVERGNE
Vice-secretary
Personal Assistant

Andrée MAGNALDI
Member
Project Manager

Miceal Martin Gilles BEAUSANG
Member
Teacher

Address:

Association loi 1901
29, rue Vaneau
75007 Paris
Tel: (33) 01 45 55 51 59,
Email: france@friends-international.org

Friends-International - Deutschland
Vereinigung für Straßenkinder in aller Welt

Activities:
Up coming activities include

  • Communications and fundraising

The team is composed of:

Ernst Adden

Dennis Barbian

Anika Schneider

Anneliese Schneider

Björn Schneider

Gisela Schneider

Wilfried Schneider

Svenja Schneider

Claire Schulz

Lilian Thompson

Heinrich Will

Established on 16 October 2004 in Frankfurt am Main
germany@friends-international.org

Email: germany@friends-international.org

Friends-International USA
The Street Children Network

Activities:

  • Friends-International USA is preparing an initial initiative: an art project with street children in Phnom Penh. A movie of the project will be made and will be shown in Los Angeles. Fundraising events will be organized around this initial project to launch a street children movie fund. This street children movie fund will allow children to make movies (write, direct, edit...) to be shown at international movie festivals.

The team is composed of:

Joel Turgesen, Board President
Shirley Langlois, Treasurer
Jessica Santillo, Secretary
Leslie Hope

 

New Mailing Address:
Friends-International
c/o Joel Turgesen
107 East main
Suite 27
Medford, OR 97501
Email: usa@friends-international.org
Tel: 541 779 0103

Swiss Samlanh

Activities:

  • Child Rights Project: Swiss Samlanh is running the website for the Friends-International/Mith Samlanh Child Rights Project (www.childrights-cambodia.org)
  • Advocacy: SwissSamlanh is publicizing the issues surrounding street children in Switzerland. Various medium are being used such as public workshops and photo exhibitions.

The team is composed of:

Nicolas Rambaud

 


Address:

Avenue Glayre 2
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
Tel: 076 583 93 11, Email: swiss@friends-international.org

 
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