Global Reach: East and Southeast Asia

Hong Kong Unison provides marginalised ethnic minority youth in Hong Kong with career guidance and life skills to better prepare them for future employment.

Ruili WCDC provides physiological and reproductive health education to primary school ethnic minority students, trains teachers, and collaborates with young peer educators in Mangshi, Yunnan Province, China.

Teach Unlimited Foundation enhances life skills and self-esteem of young people in Hong Kong via mentoring and other activities at school that complement the curriculum and expose students to possible future careers.

Teen's Key provides a safe space that empowers young people in Hong Kong with SRHR knowledge. Peer educators deliver the programme via workshops, a website they have curated, and social media platforms.

The Women’s Foundation trains girls and young women in Hong Kong to develop job-readiness and coding skills via self-directed online courses, complemented by tutoring, exposing them to careers in STEM.

Zubin Foundation trains and mentors young ethnic minority women in Hong Kong to develop leadership and life skills. They in turn carry out their own community outreach programmes.

Yunnan Peili Youth Development Centre provides physiological and reproductive health education and counselling to young people from ethnic minority backgrounds in schools in and around Kunming in Yunnan Province, China.

Arus Pelangi is increasing the capacity of youth to understand, communicate and access resources relating to their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) and leadership in LGBTIQ+ movements in Indonesia.

Photovoices International empowers organisations to engage meaningfully with young people so that they can freely express their concerns through photographs, and advocate for positive change in their communities.

Perkumpulan Pamflet Generasi provides young people living in informal settlements of East and West Jakarta with information on their mental health and SRHR.

The ROLE Foundation enables young women to gain increased life-, job-readiness, and vocational skills, creating a pathway to skilled and formal employment in the hospitality sector in Bali and other islands.

East Bali Poverty Project supports young people from Bali to extend their time in school and advocate for the elimination of Child Early and Forced Marriages (CEFM) fostering a brighter future for themselves and others.

Yayasan Kusuma Buana empowers young people in and around Indramayu with SRHR education, counselling, and referrals to youth-friendly services, both online and in-person.

Yayasan Savy Amira Sahabat Perempuan addresses sexual and gender-based violence in schools and universities through youth education, school policy development and psychosocial support.

BagoSphere equips marginalised youth with professional, digital and life skills for decent employment in the Business Process Outsourcing sector through a 4-month certified training programme coupled with an online jobseekers training hub.

Bahay Tuluyan Foundation equips young people living in residential care in Manila, Quezon, and Laguna with life-skills, health knowledge, and financial literacy as well as with on-the-job training to support the transition to independent living.

Lunas Collective provides education on normalising discussions around gender, sexuality, power, consent and pleasure; caring for people who may have experiences of gender-based violence, and self-care.

Passerelles Numériques Philippines empowers young people, especially young women, with life, employability, and vocational training skills in IT so they can secure decent and skilled jobs in the digital industry.

PANTAY empowers youth from diverse SOGIESC backgrounds through its peer-educational iCare programme on Sexual, Reproductive, and Mental Health and Rights (SRMHR) and offers Community-Based HIV Screening and Psychosocial First Aid.

The Virlanie Foundation equips young people in residential care and/or living in resource-poor communities in Manila with skills, knowledge, and career guidance to transition safely to independent living.

Virtualahan equips young people, especially those with disabilities, with digital skills via a 5-week intensive training programme coupled with internship and job coaching to enable them to transition to decent work.

ICS Center (Ct Tnhh Tu Van Va Dao Tao ICS) is carrying out research on the mental health needs of LGBTQI+ youth and plan to use the findings to develop a practical mental health support programme for the community.

Kidspire Vietnam empowers youth, especially young women, who grow up in care, with life and digital skills so they can envision their futures and take steps towards continuing education and/or vocational training after leaving care.

Passerelles Numériques Vietnam (PNV) empowers youth, especially young women, with life, employability, and vocational training skills in IT coupled with mentorship so they can secure decent and skilled jobs in the digital industry.

PANTAY empowers youth from diverse SOGIESC backgrounds through its peer-educational iCare programme on Sexual, Reproductive, and Mental Health and Rights (SRMHR) and offers Community-Based HIV Screening and Psychosocial First Aid.

REACH provides life, employability, and vocational skills training in IT, graphic design, sales and marketing and hospitality to young people, including those living with disabilities and ethnic minorities, in five provinces in Vietnam.

WeGrow Education empowers young people in Thai Binh province with SRHR knowledge via a year-long programme, coupled with a comprehensive teacher support programme.