Pacific Links Foundation

Pacific Links Foundation Pacific Links Foundation breaks the cycle of poverty and trafficking by empowering women and youth
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EDUCATION
Girls Empowerment Mekong Scholarships (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.

Growing Learning Opportunities Worldwide (GLOW): We offer online solutions to increase confidence speaking in English and improve English language abilities, develop lifetime self-learning skills, strengthen workforce readiness skills and career exploration.

Skills Clubs: Skills Clubs provide an environment where students could construct and participate in 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 job readiness and financial literacy.

Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE): ECCE provides training for childhood education practitioners, which focuses on teaching methodology, health education, and activities to engage young children with limited resources.

Social Work Summer Institute (SWSI): The SWSI workshops build personal ties and exchange good practices between professionals to better promote awareness, prevention, intervention, and reporting, thus, reduce the risks of human trafficking. COUNTER-TRAFFICKING

Supply Chain

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.​

PAXU®: PAXU® is a worker's well-being & growth app that helps users compare living costs in different locations, calculate debt repayments, connect with trusted information, and learn about safe migration.

Empower Migrants (EMMI): Migrant women become effective leaders who conduct activities that transform their communities, increase knowledge to keep themselves safe from forced labor and human trafficking risks. Protection & Awareness Raising

Reintegration Services: We offer comprehensive reintegration services throughout Vietnam and at our Compassion House in Lao Cai to empower trafficking survivors with self-confidence and self-reliance to reduce re-trafficking risks and establish the foundation for a better future.

Community Outreach Activities & Campaigns
Our awareness-raising and outreach events build vulnerable communities' capacity to protect themselves against trafficking risks. These events in communal areas expose trafficking as a 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. Social Enterprise

Matera Alliance Inc.: Matera is the corporate subsidiary of Pacific Links Foundation, focusing on workforce development solutions such as FACT® and PAXU for companies and their employees in the supply chain. HUMANITARIAN
As needed, we also provide emergency support such as to those affected by COVID-19 and floods in central Vietnam.

It's not about escaping poverty, it's about not being left behind. Researchers call it "relative deprivation": when neig...
08/11/2026

It's not about escaping poverty, it's about not being left behind. Researchers call it "relative deprivation": when neighbors' families reach Europe, staying home feels like failure. Reintegration programs must address this. Community perception matters just as much as economic outcomes.

An average of 221 migrants are illegally pushed back at European borders every day—over 80,000 in 2025 alone. Men, women...
08/10/2026

An average of 221 migrants are illegally pushed back at European borders every day—over 80,000 in 2025 alone. Men, women, and children report beatings, forced strippings, and theft by border authorities.

08/08/2026

The 2026 Virtual CampConnect recap video is here.

Some of the most meaningful parts of camp are the ones no one plans for: a slideshow bullet point that stays with you, a stranger you can't wait to keep talking to, or a moment that changes how you see yourself.

Thank you to every camper, volunteer, presenter, and supporter who made these five days unforgettable.

2026 Virtual CampConnect was made possible by people who believed in it. Because of your support, students spent five da...
08/08/2026

2026 Virtual CampConnect was made possible by people who believed in it. Because of your support, students spent five days exploring new ideas, discovering new possibilities, and seeing a future filled with hope.

To our donors and supporters, thank you for being part of that journey. 💙

A captured trafficker told police which children he passed over: the watched, the marked, the ones trained to say no. Pr...
08/07/2026

A captured trafficker told police which children he passed over: the watched, the marked, the ones trained to say no. Predators don't choose at random; they hunt for the gaps in our vigilance.

No child's safety should come down to luck. Teach every child to notice, to refuse, to run.

08/04/2026

Watch Thuy share the moment that stood out most in her workshop.

08/04/2026

Hear Na share how 2026 Virtual CampConnect has helped her grow.

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