DCA empowers and trains youth to become healthy and resilient, develops and invests in small businesses to become social entrepreneurs, and mobilizes and engages communities to strengthen environmental and developmental sustainability. Design Capital Asia is community benefit non-profit organization serving local and global communities by engaging, empowering, and addressing social, health, economic, and education challenges and injustices face by disadvantaged communities and at-risk populations. To date, we have empowered and trained over 300 youths to become Peer Health Educator who delivered health education in sexual health education, sanitation, and to***co control and prevention to 22,000 students and youths coming 29 schools, 8 universities, 8 orphanages, and numerous at-risk communities. Additionally, our youths mobilized their schools and communities around environmental issues and activities to do coastal cleanup and gardening to create more green spaces. Including 2015, we have made needed capital and business skills development accessible to entrepreneurs whose businesses have experienced tremendous growth from 26% to as high as 88%. These social entrepreneurs have trained 379 people through onsite business vocational training. Finally, we, together with our entrepreneurs, have added 311 full-time jobs, 42 part-time jobs, and distributed products made by the businesses total to $326,414 to the impoverished families and communities.
