Mith Samlanh works primarily within the Phnom Penh, but does have outreach programs across Cambodia. A large number of street children come from various squatter areas across the city. Approximately 50,000 people live in these squatter communities, including an estimated 30,000 children, who receive little or not parental support. This populations is already a prime target for prostitution, trafficking and sexual violence.

Mith Samlanh is the only organization services to street children over the age of 16 who have specific needs for their future, especially finding gainful employment. As a result the organization deems it essential to provide them with quality vocational training to allow them to gain the social and technical skills necessary for a harmonious and sustainable reintegration.

Mith Samlanh's holistic program is organized into the following sixteen steps:

• Prevention
  Working with families and communities to prevent children from
  coming to the streets by helping to establish income generation
  with their families.


• Outreach Program
  Links with children on the streets and provides them with services
  to remain safe, thus allowing them to escape the streets.


• Young Migrant Project
  Supports and provides information to young migrants
  (especially girls) about safe migration. It also assists
  them in finding adequate placement and employment
  by reducing the risk of being trafficked into the sex trade.


• Boarding House
  A place to rest during daytime hours for boys who
  work at night and who are not prepared to join "traditional"
  centers. Boys receive education of how to protect themselves
  from risk and are urged to seek alternatives to street life.


• In Center Support Team
  Helps children to integrate into the various programs and provides
  on-going attention and support to children during the studies and their
  stay at Mith Samlanh.


• Transitional Home
  Provides up to 300 children with a safe shelter for the duration of their studies.


• Training Center
  Provides up to 350 young people (from 15-21 years of age) a range of vocational training to help improve their self-confidence and allow them access to gainful employment.


• Educational Center
  Provides up to 300 younger children (from 3-14 years of age) with remedial education and literacy classes. This allows for their reintegration into the public school system.


• Placement
  Supports the placement of children into their families, employment and/or the public school system.


• Youth Reproductive Health
  Provides information and education to street children both on the streets and in the centers along with the children's wider communities thereby allowing them to make informed decisions immediately and in the future about their sexual life and access to Reproductive Health Services.


• HIV/AIDS Protection Program
  Raises awareness about HIV/AIDS among street children and their families, to care for infected children and family members and the assistance to find orphaned children a foster home.


• Drugs Program
  Provides a holistic response to drug misuse including prevention, detoxification, rehabilitation and monitoring of substance use among street children.


• Child Rights Program
  Promotes the implementation of all aspects of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Cambodia and protect and supports children who have been subjected to abusive situations.


• Culture (Club Friends)
  Allows children to discover their rich culture and allow them to express themselves.


• Friends' Businesses
  A series of business project aimed at building and reinforcing the financial sustainability of Mith Samlanh. All initiatives are part of the training process for students within the Training Center. In 2005 the businesses enabled Mith Samlanh to achieve 34% self-sustainability. Businesses include but are not limited to the internationally renowned "Friends the Restaurant", "Romdeng" -a taste of the Cambodian provinces, a French café "Le Café du Centre" and "Friends'N'Stuff.


• Staff Development
  Develops the staff's capacity to run the programs effectively and develop the organization as a whole.

The staff of Mith Samlanh consists of 220 Cambodians. They include social workers, teachers, skill trainers, doctors, house parents, cooks, cleaners and a small administrative staff.

In addition to helping the future generation of Cambodia, Mith Samlanh also provides the current with sustainable employment and invaluable skills.