- From
- 1994
- Alternative Names
- Street Friends
- Url
- http://www.streetfriends.org
- Location
- #215, Street 13
Sangkat Chey Chumneas Khan
Daun Penh
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Postal Address:
P.O. Box 588
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Tel: +855 23 220 596
Fax: +855 23 426 748
Email: friends@everyday.com.kh - Summary
"The overall objectives of FRIENDS are:
1. Meeting the street children's immediate essential needs in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child: the right to life: providing nutritional meals, shelter, a safe environment and medical care; the right to development: providing education and reintegrating them into public school and by developing their curiosity; the right to protection: fighting all forms of abuse against children including physical, sexual, family, and emotional abuse; the right to participation: making children aware of their responsibilities and promoting action within the center and in the community
2. Reintegrating the children into their families, into society, into the public school system, into their culture
and3. Building the capacity of the staff so that the Cambodian nationals are able to run the program independent of foreign intervention in the near future."
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Prepared by: susan chong
Created: 4 August 2004, Last modified: 23 February 2007