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Areas of Focus: Safe, healthy lives
Adolescence is recognised as a critical stage in one's life, during which many behavioural patterns that can determine current health status and future health outcomes are established.
Mental health, resiliency, and well-being are fundamental to the quality of life and productivity of individuals, families, communities, and nations. Good mental health and resiliency enables young people to experience life as meaningful and to overcome adversity. And it equips them to thrive during good times and cope in the face of challenges.
We focus on mental health and sexual and reproductive health, and prioritise keeping girls and other marginalised young people free from domestic, sexual, and community violence, including hate crimes and gang violence. This includes (but is not limited to): sexual and gender-based violence, sexual exploitation, trafficking, rape, sexual abuse, and forced/early marriage.
We aim to ensure that young people, and adolescent girls and young women in particular, have access to integrated sexual and reproductive health information and services. Young people should understand and be able to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights—free of coercion, discrimination, and violence.
EMpower supports programmes that:
- Focus on mental health and well-being by providing psychosocial support and building young people's resiliency, life skills, self-esteem, critical thinking, problem-solving, and conflict resolution as well as their capacity to manage stress.
- Provide young people with accurate information on their health and rights and linkages to integrated services, including: sexual and reproductive health care, treatment for substance abuse, and strategies to combat HIV and AIDS stigma.
- Reduce the risks of sexual and gender-based violence, and/or provide direct services for young people that have experienced sexual and/or gender-based violence.
Charity Fund of Social Projects Galaxy (Galaxy Fund), the Russian Federation
There are over 500,000 orphans in Russia, and only 10% of orphans who leave care are able to fully adapt to independent living, with 2% entering university, compared to 45% of young people who grow up living with their families.
Founded in 2002, Galaxy Fund is run by Russian organisation Stellit and implements programmes to ensure that young people living in care are better equipped for independent life, more likely to secure employment, and better able to avoid situations that put them at risk of exploitation. Their programmes provide sexual and reproductive health education, life skills training, and knowledge about trafficking and access to emotional support.
Our Safe, healthy lives Grantee Partners
- Asociaciòn Kusi Kawsay
- Abraco Campeao
- Adonis Musati Project (AMP)
- Alternativa Centro de Investigación Social y Educación Popular
- Asociación Colombiana de Egreso de Protección (ASCEP)
- Aspire2Gro
- Association for the Struggle Against Sexual Violence (CSMD)
- Azad Foundation
- Ballygunj Society for Children in Pain (CHIP)
- BRAVE
- Centro de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos (PROMSEX)
- Charity Fund of Social Projects Galaxy (Galaxy Fund)
- Children’s Radio Foundation
- Committee of Resource Organisations for Literacy (CORO)
- Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA)
- Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
- dlalanathi
- Earthchild Project
- Equal Community Foundation
- Fight With Insight
- GENDES, A.C
- HACEY
- ICHILD Turkey
- Ikamva Labantwana Bethu
- Khululeka Grief Support (Khululeka)
- Kolkata Sanved
- Lefika La Phodiso
- Lunas Collective
- Mamelani Projects
- Maya Foundation
- Melel Xojobal A.C.
- One Love Sisters
- OSCAR Foundation
- Perkumpulan Pamflet Generasi (Pamflet)
- Poderosas
- Pragatee Foundation
- Pride Shelter Trust
- PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action & Research)
- Roots of Health (Ugat ng Kalusugan)
- School of Hard Knocks (SOHK)
- Society for Development Activities (Project KHEL)
- Solidaridad Internacional Kanda, A.C. (SiKanda)
- Sulukule Volunteers Association (SVA)
- Suna ve İnan Kıraç Vakfı (SVİKV) Suna’s Girls
- Teen’s Key - Young Women Development Network
- The Isiqalo Foundation (Waves for Change)
- The Mudita Foundation
- The YP Foundation
- Usapho Foundation
- Vietnamese American NGO Network (VANGO Network)
- We Need to Talk/Konusmamiz Gerek
- WeGrow Education Vietnam
- Yayasan Kusuma Buana (YKB)
- Yayasan Savy Amira Sahabat Perempuan
- Yunnan Peili Youth Development Centre (YYDC)
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