Organization for Street Children Celebrates 15 Years

A group of young children are learning how to draw in Friends International and Mith Samlanh Organization in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Photo: Courtesy of Friends International and Mith Samlanh)

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Nuch Sarita, VOA Khmer
Washington, D.C
Friday, 25 June 2010

Friends International, a development group that helps street children build life skills, celebrated its 15th anniversary Friday, with an exhibition of children’s art and a cocktail party at its newest restaurant.

The group has helped thousands of children “who face daily violence and experience a high level of drug use to reintegrate into their families, public school, vocational training and then employment,” Map Somaya, its program director, told VOA Khmer.

The art exhibition shows works from children created during the lifetime of the organization at Romdeng restaurant, which belongs to the organization and is used to help train children in restaurant work, from designing menus to preparing and serving food.

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