Our mission

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;

3. and 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.