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Thai Volunteer Service - (TVS) was established to promote and support volunteer work for sustainable social development. It focuses on building a network of volunteers equipped with knowledge and skills to advance human rights, social justice, environmental protection, and community development. TVS also encourages learning and youth participation in public activities to foster a society that respects human right, fairness, and equality.
Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), operated under the administration of the Rights for Justice Foundation (RJF). CONNECT: We connect with people whose civil and political rights have been violated by offering free legal support to them. TRANSFORM: We document the stories of what we found and key changes in Thai politics and society. ADVOCATE: We meet with governments, the United Nations, diplomats, embassies, and like-minded Human Rights Defenders. EDUCATE: We transform our documents and research into user-friendly materials/information to educate the public on civil rights and on how to act when facing legal encounters and violations. VOICE: We voice Thailand's human rights climate at both national and international levels.
KNE Sustainability Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting global sustainable thinking and action. Our goal is to accelerate the dissemination of sustainability knowledge through modern media and e-learning. We are funded through partnerships, grants, and collaborations with organizations committed to sustainability and regeneration. Our key initiatives include the Global Goals Compass, a tool that provides guidance on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and ReGen.rocks, an interactive social learning platform designed to educate young people on sustainability, connect them in a social network and match them with regenerative projects. Additionally, we connect researchers in the field of sustainable development, create innovative e-learning programs, and support companies and organizations in effectively implementing sustainability and regeneration strategies. Our major project is www.ReGen4futures.org
At the Sati App Foundation, we believe that everyone deserves access to foundational mental health care. We work towards this vision by promoting peer support and building public understanding of psychological first aid. We collaborate with organizations in the health, technology, education, and communication sectors to develop a more equitable and sustainable mental health care system. By providing access to peer support networks and promoting a better understanding of mental health issues, we strive to increase access to affordable mental health care, especially in the face of a scarcity of resources such as counseling, clinical psychologists, or psychiatrists. Through this collaborative approach, we aim to create a more connected and supportive world, where individuals can find the care and resources they need to live healthy and fulfilling lives.
A.M.I.E is an organisation that supports childeren across the world. The main goal is giving proper education and health services. The basis principle is that we only work with volunteers who have no financial benefit from the work they are doing, and that the help provided is efficient. Akwaaba Asuadei is one specific project of A.M.I.E. vzw. We support the Willy-Taylor Academy in Asuadei, Ghana. Our main goal is to provide qwalitative and affortable education for all kids in the Asuadei neighbourhood. The basis principle is that the local people are the owners of this project, we only support them. In the long run, we want to assist building out a selfsuficient school.
In 2002, the Boyo Social Welfare Foundation was established by renowned Taiwanese scholar, Professor Li Jia-Tong, with the principle of "preventing underprivileged children from falling into perpetual poverty." Focusing on providing free tutoring and social work support, the foundation cultivates community tutors, develops learning materials with a focus on English, mathematics, and reading, and integrates science and programming into teaching activities. Boyo has set up 17 tutoring centers in 38 towns across Taiwan, operating approximately 210 days a year from Monday to Friday. With over 3,000 students from junior and elementary schools benefiting daily, they are guided by more than 700 local tutors towards a future free from poverty. Our commitment lies in nurturing the educational foundation of underserved children, maintaining their physical and mental well-being, eliminating environmental disadvantages, and collaborating across sectors to expand their life experiences and career perspectives. We aspire to reduce innate inequalities, ensuring rural children have ample learning resources and opportunities. Our goal is to enhance their future competitiveness, enabling them to choose their ideal careers and lifestyles, ultimately achieving true "self-reliant and poverty alleviation." In summary, our services encompass: 1.Self-Reliant and Poverty Alleviation a. Free tutoring instruction / Graduate tracking services b. Social work counseling and care 2.Build Educational Foundations a. Training local community tutors b. Developing remedial teaching materials 3.Maintain Children Health a. Diverse nutritional supplements b. Subsidies for student lunches and dinners c. Food boxes for struggling families 4.Expand Horizons a. Workplace visits / University tours b. Diverse field learning: scientific experiments, programming, humanities courses 5.Cross-Sector Collaboration a. Outreach organization collaboration of tutoring programs b. Chinese teacher training program in Thailand For detailed information and related statistics, please refer to the attached program materials file below, "Boyo Foundation SDGs ".
The Foundation of Transgender Alliance for Human Rights (TGA) has long been promoting and supporting trans people in Thailand since 2010. In November 2016, TGA was registered as a foundation under the Ministry of Interior. The main purpose of TGA is to support transgender people to have a better quality of life and be treated equally. In doing so, TGA strategically aims to conduct research and gather all information related to gender identities and sexual orientations, health, and human rights of transgender people into a set of knowledge and communication to make promote for well-being and equality. In addition, TGA works to strengthen capacity and skills of trans activist and allies to raise awareness and understanding concerning the identities and rights of transgender. TGA also establish coordination and inclusive process of engagements with civil societies in its advocacy to improve well-being of transgender people in the Thai's society. In 2019, we received a grant from the International Trans Fund. Our tangible works vary from storytelling workshop, advocacy through TGA's website, online clips, handbooks, organizing exhibitions and stakeholder/working group meetings, which have triggered a wide discussion among people in the society. Our works helps provide the public with education and spur their interest in transgender issues "Thai Transgender Alliance" is the network of the people who were born and identified as male due to their sexual organ, but perceived themselves as other gender, as well as persons, groups and organizations working for human rights and sexual health of transgender in Thailand. Our goal is to support the transgendered people in Thailand for having better quality of life in every aspect "Thai Transgender Alliance" TGA is a transgender organization, which caters its focus on areas about human rights, gender quality, and justice. Our campaigns mainly help protect trangender rights and encourage trans people to be aware of their own rights through different services and activities such as producing useful multimedia, providing consults and academic services, conducting fieldworks as well as forming partnership with related working units and organizations. "Thai Transgender Alliance" also focus on area including: To gather all transgender-related information and to produce the knowledge package for transgender in Thailand To strengthen capacity and skills of the members of the groups and organizations working with/for transgender in Thailand To raise awareness and understanding on the identities and rights of transgender and also to establish coordination and constructive engagement of the civil societies in order to improve Thai society Based on the study conducted by TGA on demands, problems and challenges of trans people related to gender recognition and name title in 2015, it shows that trans people in Thailand are still deprived of access to general welfare and basic rights such as the rights to marriage, works and medical treatment, which are issues about gender inequality issues. TGA thus reckons that it is urgent to solve this gender inequality issue from the society to make sure that trans people's life is offered with the same equality as others and treated with human dignity and values. With this goal in mind, we have conducted the following activities and services; * Launch campaigns that are specific to Thai legal contexts to protect transgender rights such as putting strong efforts into equipting trans people with knowledge and understanding about human rights and gender equality act. *Provide academic services or research on subjects related to life quality of trans people. For example, we prepared parenting guidelines for parents, who have LGBT children, which aims to create a better understanding among families towards trans communities or LGBT groups as well as undermine all forms of violences within families. *Provide people in general with academic supports, knowledge and information updates about trans people, which will help expand our working networks for trans people in the future. For example, we provided workshops, lectures, as well as participated in conferences related to trans communities. *Develop new-gen trans activists through traning and recruit high-calibre interns. We also try to build their passions and interests in working about transgender issues as well as boost their confidence in making a change to the society. *Offer offhand assistance for trans people or LGBT people, who faced problems with sexual harrassement or gender-based discrimination during conscription. *Conduct activities and campaigns in line with international events such as TDOR, and IDAHOT.
SHARE, the center for Sexual rigHts And Reproductive Justice is the first organization in South Korea to provide comprehensive and intersectional services related to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). SHARE is dedicated to researching and proposing laws and policies related to SRHR, providing medical information and support, and offering resources and training programs for comprehensive sexuality education (CSE). SHARE aims to build a society where everyone can enjoy their sexual and reproductive rights and achieve social justice. [Vision] SHARE creates a society where everyone enjoys sexual and reproductive rights without being discriminated against or excluded and, based on sufficient information and equal resources, mutually builds capacity. [Mission] SHARE creates a heartwarming and comfortable space where anyone can visit at any time without hesitation and share any kind of story. SHARE creates an environment for grounded and accurate counseling and accessible treatment and creates a society free from discrimination. SHARE forms networks with diverse fields and social movements at home and abroad and raises civil society's awareness of SRHR. SHARE builds systems whereby diverse people can access sexual and reproductive information and support needed in their lives and creates and provides educational materials that are easy to understand comprehensive and include sufficient content. SHARE researches on and publicizes laws and policies to realize sexual rights and reproductive justice based on field circumstances and experiences. [Values] SHARE fights against unjust power that infringes on sexual rights and reproductive justice. SHARE aims at a horizontal culture and operation and emphasizes members' capacity-building and happiness. SHARE supports people's right to experience and discover failure and joy in their lives and newly creates a language of rights whereby people can realize lives of their wishes instead of charity or protection. SHARE challenges normality and, based on intersectionality and diversity, forges solidarity and creates change. In the process, it shares experiences with and mutually builds capacity with civil society organizations (CSOs). SHARE is based on and organizes the field at the same time. SHARE is aware that our activities are part of a broad movement to promote human rights and, as an organization based in non-Western Asia, maintains a postcolonial viewpoint. SHARE rejects stigmas, pity, judgments, and correction, affirms all of our pleasures and desires, and supports people's independent and free search for their rights. SHARE resists the illegalization and criminalization of particular kinds of sex and reproduction and activates rights instead of prohibitions.
Good Neighbors exists to make the world a place without hunger, where people live together in harmony. Good Neighbors respects the human rights of our neighbors suffering from poverty, disasters and oppression, helps them to achieve self-reliance and enables them to rebuild hope.
he World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) is an international non-governmental organisation representing and promoting approximately 70 million deaf people's human rights worldwide. The WFD is a federation of deaf organisations from 134 nations; its mission is to promote the human rights of deaf people and full, quality and equal access to all spheres of life, including self-determination, sign language, education, employment and community life. WFD has a consultative status in the United Nations and is a founding member of International Disability Alliance (IDA). At its recent World Congress in Jeju, South Korea, WFD members (136) approved the WFD strategic direction 2023-2030 and Action Plan 2023-2027. Important themes are covered in these 2 documents which strive to ensure that we create access for all deaf people to all ways of life in "a world where deaf people everywhere can sign anywhere" (vision). Furthermore, our mission is to work towards the full realisation of linguistic rights and human rights in all areas of life, with full recognition and implementation of these rights across local, national and international levels. To realise our mission and vision, the following are part of our Action Plan 2023-2027: Building Capacity across the Globe: ensuring increased participation of women, youth and underrepresented communities; provide effective capacity building projects to countries who are not yet members to assist them with creating their own national deaf associations so that they can represent themselves in their countries; Putting Deaf people on the Agenda: the WFD will continue to strive to put deaf human rights at the forefront of all representation internationally, including at the UN; we will effectively promote International Week of Deaf people and be ready to response to deaf people's needs in times of crises, disasters and war. Realising nothing about us without us: the WFD continues to be the leading authority for deaf people and sign languages and has committed to developing resources to assist deaf people raise awareness in their countries. Achieving Sign Language Rights for all: National sign languages are fundamental to achieving deaf people's human rights. We will aim to assist our member states in promoting the legal recognition of signed language in the country and advocate for early childhood language acquisition and inclusive multilingual education policies. Investing in a strong and sustainable organisation: to carry out our mission and vision we need greater investment in our secretariat and regional secretariat, expand our donor base, increase visibility and fundraising activities so that our organisation can carry on its important global work.
The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), an international, non-profit, autonomous, postgraduate institution of higher learning based in Thailand. The mission of AIT in the context of the emerging environment is "to develop highly qualified and committed professionals who will play a leading role in the sustainable development of the region and its integration into the global economy". Guided by the above clear, timeless vision and mission, the dedicated students, faculty and staff of AIT are set to steer the Institute along its path of becoming: A trailblazer in advanced education in the region, with leadership in IT and new types of multidisciplinary programs An exemplary institution, with an emphasis on academic quality in terms of courses and other aspects of operation A leader in professional development programs A hub for the implementation of regional and transnational research projects and a research facility for academic professionals. A nexus for networking with other academic and research institutions in the region and the world A model international citizen A collaborator and partner of national postgraduate institutions A financially viable, self-sustaining institution, able to draw support from donors the private sector and individuals, with good governance and strong leadership A strong partner to its alumni, who are principal stakeholders through the AIT Alumni Association (AITAA)