Just Peoples co-founders took four of our key supporters to Dhaka to visit the projects their funding helped make happen. While there, we dived in to discover more about this captivating country. - and it was a wild ride!
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In my 20s I wanted to help orphans. I felt so sorry for kids who didn’t have parents and were living in institutions waiting for someone to come and give them the warm hug that would change their life. This was my misguided approach to development work.
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As an organisation dedicated to backing local leaders to create meaningful change in impoverished communities around the world, we understand that true impact requires more than just financial support - it needs love.
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How single mothers in Vietnam navigate family and cultural expectations when they make the difficult decision to leave abusive marriages.
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Just Peoples project leader Mushfiqur Rahman Saad explains the ins and outs of the holy month, for anyone keen to learn more about one of the biggest spiritual and religious events in the world.
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In Vietnam, some religious and traditional belief systems discriminate against women and encourage them to stay in situations of violence and abuse. A Vietnamese psychologist explains how she’s helping single mothers unlearn disempowering beliefs, as they overcome trauma and learn to love themselves fully.
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Community leaders from Vietnam, Uganda and Bangladesh share their personal stories of pandemic life. Their heartbreaking experiences provide insights into how people find the strength to continue working for and inspiring their communities, when the challenges are overwhelming.
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“How would you feel if you woke up someday on stained cloth of period blood knowing that you do not have any healthy menstrual product to manage that?” - Sharmin Kabir teaches us what it means to experience period poverty.
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Funny you asked. Actually it’s not, because that question is top of mind for most people when they donate to a charity. And fair enough too; a donation is your hard-earned money that you are choosing to part with because you believe, if spent wisely, it has the power to change someone’s life.
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To be completely honest running my first Facebook fundraiser was scary. But I took a deep breath, did it anyway and even raised some money!
So what prompted me to overcome my fear?
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An adventurous week on the ground in Kenya gave insight to the incredibly innovative solutions Just Peoples’ project leaders are using to combat the complex challenges Kenyan people face.
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After a poignant trip to Bangladesh, Christey and I realised we’re not alone in feeling conflicted about buying and receiving gifts while there is so much poverty and inequality in the world.
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Before I started volunteering for Just Peoples I often thought I should be doing something to give back. I was in a good position to be able to do something to help others. Then came the ‘buts’.
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We’re two years in and our achievements have been substantial. We know we can make a significant impact in reducing extreme global poverty and we’ve proved it on a small scale, but this is just the beginning. We can make a bigger impact, and we have everything in place to do so.
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I had intended to do something to help a good cause for some time; but for a while didn't quite know who to help (or how). When I met Christey and learned about Just Peoples, I was hugely inspired by
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Over the past couple of years human trafficking, or "modern day slavery" as it’s often called, has been gaining traction in the media. However, there seems to be some confusion as to what it actually entails. Unlike in Hollywood movies, human trafficking rarely involves the abduction of middle class white women into sex work on luxury boats.
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Anita became pregnant when she was working as a domestic worker in Singapore and was abandoned by the baby’s father, an Indonesian migrant worker. Anita was banned from working in Singapore and deported to Batam as it’s illegal for domestic workers to get pregnant while working in Singapore. As a single mother in a conservative Muslim country, Anita was socially stigmatised, and had nowhere to turn.
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Since she was born in the south of France, Julie has always loved traveling and had the chance to live in various countries. She is now in Singapore, working for a big American IT company in sales, and believes she can change the world, with just one more little drop in the ocean, because everybody can do something!
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I recently spoke to a group of Just Peoples' Founding 50 members and their friends in Christchurch, and shared stories of survivors of human trafficking I've interviewed across Asia. This video is a recording of that talk
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