Educate 3000 children against societal risks

It has been two years since COVID-19 has spread rapidly within and between countries across the globe. Vietnam is still in the process of recovering from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In last November, a workshop on Sex Education and Internet Safety was conducted by AAT for the children (from 12 to 17 years old) of "Where Dreams Bloom" program at District 1. Sex-education is an important aspect for the overall development of children from a young age. Topics covered in the training session include:
• Gender and sexual diversity
• Reproductive organs: Boy and Girl
• Puberty in boys and girls
• Where do babies come from?
• STIs and Safe Sex
• Laws related to underage sex, abortion, child marriage and inbreeding
• Sexual abuse and harassment - How to avoid it
• Internet safety for children

In last December, AAT held a useful and interesting information sharing session for children under 12 years old in Binh Thanh District. Sex-education is an important aspect for the overall development of children from a young age. The children were taught about good touch and bad touch and what measures should be taken if caught in an unfavorable situation. The children were also educated through the medium of videos.

Comprehensive sexuality education remains the cornerstone for improving the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents. The objective is to ensure that young people are receiving high quality, life skills-based, sexuality education to gain the knowledge and skills to make safe, healthy and respectful choices about sexuality and relationships. Comprehensive sexuality education is built upon a foundation of human rights, the rights of the child, and the empowerment of children and young people.

Our program would like to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to you. Donors like you ensure that we can carry on our important work in our community. There are thousands of inspiring projects here on GlobalGiving, so we’re grateful you chose to support our work. Thank you for being a part of our team of supporters that are making our project a reality.

Please email us at vnaction@allianceantitrafic.org if you have any concerns about the project and keep following our Facebook page to see our latest updates:  https://www.facebook.com/aatvietnam

Alliance Anti-Trafic Vietnam

Dear friends,

As the spread of Covid-19 continues in the North and Mekong delta of Vietnam, we have to keep depending on implementing our project activities in the coming time.  

“Sun Flowers” Community Outreach Group is one of the preventive projects of AAT Vietnam, which started in 2002. The role of Peer Educators is to reach out into local communities of sex workers to learn about their problems, promote healthy behaviors, distributes condoms and informally discuss health and other problems. They also help enhance the sex workers’ access to social services in the community to reduce harmful aspects of prostitution and to support them find alternative livelihood.

Among the sex workers whom we reach out and support, a large number of them pregnant and have the child. Our Peer Educators introduce the prostitutes’ daughters/sisters to the Where Dreams Bloom program, which will both mentally and financially support the girls until they complete K-12 study.

We are honored to award the certificate of appreciation to recognize the hard work of our Peer Educators, who are dedicated and skilled social workers, mothers and women who want to make the world a better place for their peers.

In the upcoming time, we will update our training materials. Our team also partnered with Goodera, a popular volunteer platform, to seek for volunteers helping translate the training material into English.

As usual, we are grateful to have your support. Please email us at vnaction@allianceantitrafic.org if you have any concerns about the project and keep following our Facebook page to see our latest updates:  https://www.facebook.com/aatvietnam

Alliance Anti-Trafic Vietnam

Dear friends,

We are thrilled to have Geocomply and Dirox, the two well-known technology companies in Vietnam, established the partnership with our organization to promote the development on effectiveness of preventive mechanisms in community, and increasing community awareness of sexual abuse and exploitation, human trafficking and other related risks. Through the cooperation between AAT and the enterprises, we are looking forward to restarting our preventive training program in the coming time at schools after two years of Covid-19.

In last March, we started the very first activity with Geocomply by organizing a workshop and training for their staff on prevention of sexual harassment. The activity is designed to prevent gender-based harassment in the workplace, and focuses on providing the participants who are female staff of the company with clear information about the problem. Other related risks including sexual abuse and unsafe migration are also main parts of the discussion.

AAT also collaborates with The Mekong Sustainable Manufacturing Alliance by sending our staff to attend their training on the topic Respectful Workplace Program. Its main goal is to equip the factory workers and managers with basic knowledge and skills to enhance a healthy working environment without sexual harassment and sexual abuse, as well as improve the well-being of factory employees in Mekong region. We are happy to have our staff get involve in this project and contribute their effort in the mutual goal of developing preventive education and advance the self-protection of community.

As usual, we are grateful to have your support. As we go forward, we’ll be sure to keep you updated, and know that we always value your questions, ideas and feedback. Thank you for you ongoing support to our project.

Alliance Anti-Trafic Vietnam

Links:

• AAT Vietnam Facebook

As the spread of Covid-19 continues in the North and Mekong delta of Vietnam, we have to keep depending on implementing our project activities in the coming time.  

In the upcoming time, we and our partner - Kathmandu company (New Zealand) have the plan on training for factory workers at Tex-Giang company (Mekong Delta) and Maxport (Ha Noi) after the successful training last year. The learners are going to participate in a two-day training and learn about knowledge and skill regarding risks of prevention of human trafficking, exploitation and sexual abuse, harassment at workplace, safe migration, HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), etc. The learns the become principal trainers at the factories and organize the similar trainings for their coworkers.

 On our Facebook page, we are launching a series including four topics:

- Topic 1: End the victim blaming?

- Topic 2: Should prostitution be legal - the never ending debate

- Topic 3: What do you know about Queer-bating?

- Topic 4: Labeling women

 You could read our series on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/aatvietnam

This is our effort to bring the multidimensional information closer to communities and diversify points of view in society. Our team also keep working on our training material and improve it every year so it could be most suitable and meet the needs of each group of beneficiary including teenagers, factory workers or ethnic minority.

As we go forward, we’ll be sure to keep you updated, and know that we always value your questions, ideas and feedback. Thank you for you ongoing support to our project.

Sincerely,

Alliance Anti-Trafic Vietnam

Links:

• AAT Vietnam Facebook page

Dear our friends,

Ho Chi Minh city entered its fourth wave of Covid-19 at the start of May 2021, seeing its peek at 6.318 new cases on July, 26th. The city has extended the strict lockdown measures to prevent the transmission of this disease until the end of September, as well as planed to return to a “new normal” state in the upcoming months. In light of the threats and follow the directions of the government, we keep working from home and have postponed all our project activities to ensure the safety of community and staff.

Meanwhile, we have developed our training materials by adding the section “Gender Equality at Working Places” to comply with the learners who are factory workers. This is important as the gap between genders is wildest in low-and middle-income countries including Vietnam. Women often face obstacles such as sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination, gender pay gap, etc. at their working places. Therefore, providing both male and female workers with this information is crucial that helps create an environment where all people are treated equally.

Our team also partnered with Goodera, a popular volunteer platform, to seek for volunteers helping translate the training material into English. This may take a long time to find the volunteers during this hard time but we hope everything is going well. The translating process will be updated in our next report.

As we go forward, we’ll be sure to keep you updated, and know that we always value your questions, ideas and feedback. Please email us at vnaction@allianceantitrafic.org if you have any concerns about the project and keep following our Facebook page to see our latest updates:  https://www.facebook.com/aatvietnam

We hope that you, your loved ones, and your colleagues will safe and well during this time. Our thoughts are with the people affected and everyone working around the clock to help those most in need.

Sincerely,

AAT Vietnam