ABOUT US
Empowering Youth To Build A Brighter Future
Our Mission
Our mission is to support under-privileged communities in Vietnam and the enrichment of their cultural heritage. Our programs enable their sustainable development and our work’s success grows with the trust we build through the initiatives we support, both in-country and all over the world.
Our Approach
Pacific Links Foundation has 20+ years of experience in empowering women and youth, through improving life skills, raising self-awareness, bringing new knowledge and by opening opportunities and supportive networks. Our Education portfolio empowers disadvantaged youth to access education and increase economic opportunities. Our Modern Slavery Prevention portfolio invests comprehensively in at-risk youths to prevent human trafficking and in survivors to help them build new lives.
Education Programs
Girls Empowerment Mekong Scholarship (GEMS)
GEMS is specifically designed to prevent dropouts, increase access to education for at-risk young women in the Mekong Delta, enabling safer and better economic opportunities.
Scholarship to Elevate Education & Develop Skills (SEEDS)
SEEDS provides educational opportunities for talented disadvantaged students in rural areas of Central Provinces to equip them with essential life skills, help guide them towards a career choice and expand job opportunities.
Online Learning Platform
We offer online solutions to improve English skills and confidence speaking in English, develop life-time self-learning skills, strengthen skill sets and career preparedness for our students.
Skills Clubs
Skills Clubs bring students together to lead activities that promote goal-setting, self-discipline, teamwork, critical thinking and peer-leadership.
Vocational Training
Vocational Training & Job Placement improve young people’s economic stability and safeguard against trafficking through vocational training, job readiness skills, and financial literacy.
Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE)
ECCE provides training for childhood education practitioners focused on teaching methodology, health education, and activities to engage young children with limited resources.
Social Work Summer Institute (SWSI)
Our workshop series at SWSI offers practical social work skills for social workers throughout Vietnam to support trauma victims.
Modern Slavery Prevention
Factory Awareness to Counter Trafficking (FACT®)
FACT® trains factory workers and managers about human trafficking in industrial zone to create good practice standards in labor recruiting and retention to reduce trafficking risks in the supply chain.
Empower Migrants (EMMI)
EMMI enables migrant women to become leaders. They conduct activities to transform their communities including raising awareness on forced labor and human trafficking risks.
PAXU® - Workers' well-being & growth app
PAXU® is a mobile app that helps users compare living costs in different locations, calculate debt repayments, connect with trusted information, and learn about safe migration.
Reintegration Services
We offer comprehensive reintegration services throughout Vietnam and at our Lao Cai Compassion House to empower trafficking survivors with the self-confidence to reduce re-trafficking risks and establish the foundation for a better future.
Community Outreach & Activities
Our awareness-raising and outreach events build vulnerable communities' capacity to protect themselves against trafficking risks. These events expose trafficking as preventable crime.
Capacity Building for Responders (CaRes)
We provide training to responders in Asia and Europe to build responders’ capacity in supporting and interviewing Vietnamese irregular migrants and victims of trafficking by advocating for empathetic, victim-centered, and culturally sensitive approaches.
What Makes Us Different?
Grassroots
We work directly with beneficiaries in the most impoverished areas of Vietnam.
Holistic
We provide long-term support from the individual to community level
Partnerships
We build capacity for stakeholders for long-term systems changes
Technology
Incorporate technology to expand reach and connect beneficiaries with more resources.
End to End
We work in trafficking hotspots across Vietnam & in destination countries in Asia & Europe.
Women & youth development
Empower women and youth through knowledge building and life skill trainings.