Who Are Our Partners?

Who Are Our Partners?

For every Youth Expedition Programme, the partner organisations play an extremely important role in ensuring that the YEP experience will not be a facile, superficial one -- but rather, it will be educative, offering numerous nuggets about development work for the participants to ruminate over. For our inaugural post, we find it necessary to present to you our dear friendly partners whom you will be working with, should you come on board.

Solutions To End Poverty (STEP)

Poverty-free, sustainable communities where people live with dignity and in harmony. 

A secular and non-political organization based in Singapore, STEP seeks to facilitate and catalyse collaborative efforts to develop sustainable communities in poverty-stricken areas of Asia.
STEP is currently embarking on a masterplan to relocate 312 impoverished families, about to be evicted from their dwellings in urban slums, to a 2.2 hectares piece of land, acquired for this purpose. Along with the efforts of several other NGOS, STEP seeks to rebuild lives of an entire community – through providing simple vocational training and conducting community building programmes, among others. It is envisioned that this model will serve as a prototype for sustainable community development for the poor across Cambodia. 

Besides working on rebuilding the lives of Cambodian slum dwellers, STEP is also involved developing an ecosystem for the continual development and engagement of volunteers in Singapore, called Service Leadership and Mentoring (SLaM). It aims to provide capacity training in Social Innovation, collaborate with the best partners, and inspire passion for life-long volunteerism, especially among the young.

To learn out more about STEP, click here.

Pour un Sourire d'Enfant (PSE)

An empowerment of each Cambodian child to become a master of his or her own destiny.

Pour un Sourire d'Enfant (PSE) is a French humanitarian association, which has been working for the last 16 years in post-Khmer-Rouge Cambodia. PSE helps extremely impoverished Cambodian children, who do not attend school, who are mistreated and forced to work in the most distressing and dangerous conditions as scavengers. Today, PSE has more than 450 local employers in Cambodia who are employed as teachers, trainers, social workers and many others. Its schools now hold more than 4000 children and 1500 youngsters (the latter within vocational institutes).

PSE adopts a hugely comprehensive approach towards achieving their objectives, through means that are direct and institutional. Direct intervention is realized through installations of health care centres, provision of education and vocational training, and livelihood support for families. On the other hand, institutional action can be carried out through the dissemination of information; defending Children’s Rights in all authorities both national and international as a bulwark, among others.  

To learn out more about PSE, please click here.