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East Meets West/ ADAPT

Address

East Meets West
32 Pasteur Street
DaNang, Vietnam

Contact Information

If calling from Vietnam:

Tel: 05 11 829 110
Fax: 05 11 821 850

If calling from overseas:

Tel: +84 5 11 829 110
Fax: +84 5 11 821 850

Website

http://www.adaptvietnam.org/

Email

adapt@pacificlinks.org

Alternate Address

P.O. Box 29292
Oakland, CA 94604 U.S.A.

Other Forms of Contact

26 Lotus, APSC
36 Thao Dien Street
District 2
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam

Activities

The East Meets West organization has a new and innovative program to combat sexual trafficking in the Mekong Delta region of Viet Nam.

In the fall of 2005, East Meets West began working on a program to prevent trafficking of young women and girls. Together with two other organizations active in Vietnam, EMW has launched a collaboration called ADAPT - The An Giang/Dong Thap Alliance to Prevent Trafficking. The other two organizations are the International Children Assistance Network (ICAN) and the Pacific Links Foundation (PALS). This collaboration focuses on the prevention of trafficking.

The program has three mutually-reinforcing components:

Vocational training and job placement tailored to local needs and market conditions;
Scholarships for young girls that are specifically designed to prevent school drop-outs and the trafficking of young women and girls;
Reintegration assistance, including therapy and medical treatment, focusing on the needs of young women and children.

The program is partially funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).