Our Partners
Curated selection of partners from the broader Firetree portfolio
Photo: Baan Dek Foundation
Child Protection
Child protection is the foundation of the Firetree Fund portfolio. Effective protection is not a single service, nor a linear solution — it is an interconnected cycle, from handling immediate crisis through emergency social work and safe housing to building futures through education, vocational training, and family reintegration — with healthcare and legal protection available as needed throughout.
Each child moves through this cycle on their own terms, with a tailored plan built around their specific needs and circumstances. This approach is also the most effective defence against trafficking — every element builds the resilience, options, and support structures that make children less vulnerable to exploitation before it occurs.
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Photo: M'lop Tapang
Education Innovation
While child protection anchors the Fund portfolio, children cannot be protected effectively if the public systems meant to serve them are failing. Education is the primary system through which vulnerable children are reached, monitored, and supported daily. When a school functions well, teachers become the first line of identification and response for children at risk.
Teach for the Philippines works inside public schools across the country, placing trained fellows who deliver foundational literacy and life skills programmes in some of the most underserved communities. Like our protection-focused partners, TFP embeds practitioners within vulnerable geographies, coordinates formally with government through its MOA with the Department of Education, and builds local capacity that outlasts any single intervention.
TFP's inclusion also reflects Firetree's direct operational experience in education. Through Starfish Education in Thailand, which Firetree fully funds and governs, we run school transformation programmes that develop teacher capacity and instructional mastery inside public schools — work that is structurally parallel to TFP's. As with child protection, our practitioner knowledge informs how we assess, support, and engage with TFP as a partner organisation.
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Photo: Teach for the Philippines
Organisations
M'Lop Tapang
Cambodia
M'Lop Tapang in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, serves over 6,000 children, youth, and families through integrated services delivered by multidisciplinary teams. They prioritize keeping children with families, operate a 24-hour emergency hotline, and train community members to recognize and respond to risk. Their staff is 98% Cambodian, with deep roots in the communities they serve.
Mith Samlanh
Cambodia
Mith Samlanh delivers an integrated continuum of care for street-connected children, youth and families across Phnom Penh, moving them from crisis to stability to self-reliance. Outreach and drop-in services meet immediate protection and harm-reduction needs, while education, vocational training with job placement and and tailored safe accommodation options, combined with family reintegration and foster care, build pathways to dignified, independent futures.
Peuan Peuan
Thailand
Peuan Peuan, works with vulnerable Thai and migrant children, youth, and families in Bangkok and Pattaya. Its outreach teams identify children at risk and provide case management, child protection support, and referrals to public education, healthcare, vocational training and social services as well as protection and family reintegration for migrant children ailing from bordering countries.
Baan Dek Foundation
Thailand
Baan Dek Foundation in Thailand focuses on migrant children in construction site camps—an estimated 60,000 children living in precarious conditions with limited access to services. Their model focuses on specialised case management, peer educators and community leaders trained within communities, and systemic engagement with construction companies to improve living conditions for workers and their children across the sector.
Stairway Foundation
Philippines
Founded in 1990, Stairway Foundation is a nonprofit Learning and Resource Center for the Protection and the Promotion of Children’s Rights. Innovation and creative expression are at the core of the organization’s therapeutic interventions and extensive advocacy and training programs. The drivers behind Stairway’s expansive reach, nationally and internationally, are a comprehensive e-learning platform along with continuous strategic development and training of child protection networks with broad representation from government and non-government institutions.
Teach for the Philippines
Philippines
Teach for the Philippines expands access to quality education by developing teachers and school leaders within the public education system. Its Fellowship places young leaders in underserved classrooms for two years, while complementary programs strengthen school leadership, community engagement, and system collaboration. The organisation works to build a pipeline of educators and changemakers improving learning outcomes across schools and communities.
Yayasan Chow Kit
Malaysia
Yayasan Chow Kit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, runs drop-in centers and a safe home for at-risk children and teenagers in one of the city's most marginalized areas. Recognized by Malaysia's authorities as a one-stop center for marginalized children, YCK provides comprehensive services including meals, case management, education, and advocacy for stateless, abandoned, and undocumented children.
Our presence across Southeast Asia
