Southern California
Sunday, August
12PM—3PM
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You are cordially invited to a
SeaCliff Country Club 6501 Palm Avenue Huntington Beach, CA
This young child and her community need your help to protect them against the risks of human trafficking—Photo by DiLuNa
Individual tickets Sponsorships
$75
eachPlatinum $2,500
Gold $1,000
Silver $ 500
Launched in 2005, ADAPT is a counter‐trafficking project of Pacific Links Founda on working in remote border regions of
Vietnam to enable hundreds of impoverished young women to pursue an educa on, gain a trade and obtain jobs.
Join us on this special event!
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SeaCliff Country Club
Sponsorship Levels
$2,500+ Platinum
1. Reserved 4 seats at a VIP table
2. Acknowledgement during program on stage
3. Logo/name featured on 2 e-blasts from now until event 4. Special sponsor profile featured on 2 e-blasts
5. Logo/name on website with URL link
6. Logo/name looping on slideshow during program 7. Logo/name on poster board & in the Program 8. Recognition in Annual Report
$1,000+ Gold
1. Reserved 2 seats at a VIP table
2. Acknowledgement during program through announcement 3. Logo/name featured on 1 e-blast from now until event 4. Logo/name on website, on poster board
5. Logo/name looping on slideshow during program 6. Recognition in Annual Report
$500+ Silver
1. Two tickets to the Luncheon
2. Name looping on slideshow during program 3. Name on website, poster board & in the Program 4. Recognition in Annual Report
534 Valley Way Milpitas, CA 95035 USA www.pacificlinks.org info@pacificlinks.org Tel: (510) 435-3035 eFax: (505) 214-0972
ADAPT
Inspires:
A Benefit Luncheon to Stop Human Trafficking
SPONSORSHIP Fact Sheet
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ADAPT
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is an effective way to:1. Demonstrate an awareness and responsibility to help people in need 2. Enhance your business’ corporate social responsibility image
3. Generate awareness and visibility for your company
4. Partner with a highly-reputable and effective grassroots international organization 5. Promote goodwill as a leader in public service locally and worldwide
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ADAPT
Inspires
is a Benefit Luncheon to celebrate milestones of the most effective anti-human trafficking program on the northern and southern Viet Nam borders. An giang/Dong thap Alliance for the Prevention of Trafficking (ADAPT) seeks to prevent the trafficking of young girls and women by enhancing their educational attainment and expanding their vocational choices. Proceeds support innovative programs for the benefit of vulnerable communities and victims of human trafficking.W
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Sunday, August 28, 2011: 12 – 3pm
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SeaCliff Country Club: 6501 Palm Ave, Huntington Beach, CA 92648
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Attendees include community leaders with an avid interest in world affairs, international trade, development, philanthropy and Asian cultures.
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ROGRAM:ADAPT
Operated on the Cambodia and China borders of Viet Nam, ADAPT employs a multi-pronged, grassroots approach to prevent trafficking and assists victims in their quest to reintegrate. ADAPT provides prevention services, shelter and reintegration services and builds community awareness. Since 2005, ADAPT has provided assistance to more than 8,000 young women and their community and family members. www.adaptvietnam.org
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ISSIONPacific Links Foundation’s mission is to support the sustainable development of Vietnamese communities and the enrichment of their cultural heritage.
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ISTORYFounded in 2001, Pacific Links Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-governmental organization that promotes sustainable development in Vietnam. Since 2001, PALS’ projects have directly benefited over 12,000 people in Vietnam and continue to have a lasting impact on the country. Many of our beneficiaries are trainers and outreach communicators who help to bring the knowledge transferred to an even larger population. www.pacificlinks.org
AN GIANG/DONG THAP ALLIANCE
FOR THE PREVENTION OF TRAFFICKING
ADAPT enables hundreds of young women living in impoverished and remote regions to pursue an educa-tion, gain a trade and obtain jobs with livable wages. We work in challenging conditions of Viet Nam’s remote border regions.
Join us to make life-changing opportunities
possible for these young women.
US Offi ce:
Pacifi c Links Foundation
Sobrato Center for Nonprofi ts – Milpitas 534 Valley Way Milpitas, CA 95035, USA Phone: (+1)510.435.3035 eFax: (+1)505.514.0972 Vietnam Offi ce: 163/A9 Huỳnh Thúc Kháng Phường Bình Khánh, TP Long Xuyên Tỉnh An Giang Phone: (+84) 76.3853.888 Fax: (+84) 76.3955.440 Email: adapt@pacifi clinks.org
www.adaptvietnam.org www.pacifi clinks.org
How you can help
Milestones
ADAPT is a program of
We gratefully acknowledge support from
Pacifi c Links Foundation © 2011
ADAPT
2005
:Pacifi c Links Foundation (PALS) launched ADAPT in An •
Giang and Dong Thap provinces
PALS awarded 478 academic scholarships to girls with •
the highest risk of dropping out of school
2006
:• The fi rst Social Work Summer Institute took place at An Giang University bringing together social work
practitioners from the US, Vietnam and Cambodia
2007
:• Formation of six Grassroots Anti Traffi cking Effort (GATE) groups to conduct safe migration campaigns • Additional 100 academic scholarships awarded
2008
:• Expansion to 16 GATE groups to conduct human traffi cking & safe migration awareness campaigns • PALS opened Long Xuyen Open House, our fi rst shelter
for traffi cking survivors in An Giang province
2009
:• First class of ADAPT’s Culinary Vocational Program graduated from SaigonTourist Culinary School
• First cohort of academic scholarship recipients graduated, with three students going on to university
2010
:• Lao Cai Compassion House, PALS’ second shelter, opened at the Vietnam-China border
• First traffi cking survivors graduated from high school • ADAPT celebrated its 5th Anniversary
ADAPT leads the counter-traffi cking efforts at the frontiers of Vietnam by providing shelter and reinte-gration services, increasing access to education. and enabling better economic opportunities.
ADAPT operates at the Vietnamese borders with Cambodia and China where over 70% of traffi cking cases in Vietnam occur. In these impoverished and remote border regions, young girls and women face the highest risk of being traffi cked for sexual and labor exploitation.
1. Prevention Services
• Academic Scholarships are provided until high school graduation. Scholarships cover tuition, health insurance, uniforms, books and school supplies, tutoring, and summer program. • Vocational training scholarships: Recipients
are enrolled in a 6-month culinary arts program, receiving a secondary vocational certifi cation upon completion.
• Job Placement & Individual Development Ac-counts (IDA): To encourage fi scal responsibility, ADAPT provides partial matching for savings, income supplements and rent subsidies during the initial transition period into the work force.
2. Protection Services
• Safe Shelters: ADAPT operates two shelters for traffi cking survivors at the Vietnam-Cambodia border and at the Vietnam-China border to provide a supportive, safe environment for survivors. • Reintegration Services: ADAPT offers
compre-hensive reintegration services individualized to each traffi cking survivor. The services include in-dividualized case management, emotional support, access to healthcare and legal services, vocational training of their choice, remedial education if needed, job placement assistance and family as-sistance.
3. Partnerships
• Partnering with local and international organiza-tions and local governments to strengthen referral and reintegration services for traffi cking survivors. • Engaging teachers and school offi cials to increase awareness about human traffi cking and minimize dropout rates.
• Social Work Summer Institute training: Since 2006, the annual trainings foster skills and coop-eration for hundreds of social work practitioners.
The 2010 US Traffi cking-in-Persons Report identi-fi es Vietnam as a source and destination country for human traffi cking. The chance of becoming enslaved in the modern world is 1.8 per 1,000 people and almost twice as much in the Asia Pacifi c region.
By 2009, more than 4,400 Vietnamese women and children have been identifi ed as traffi cking survivors; 22,000 are reported missing and perhaps traffi cked inside Vietnam or across borders; thousands more have been subjected to forced labor and forced prostitution through internationally brokered marriages.
What
ADAPT
Why
Who
ADAPT serves young girls and women from populations most vulnerable to human traffi cking at Vietnam’s borders with Cambodia and China:
• Young girls (Academic Scholarship program). • Young women from 17 until 25 (Vocational
Scholarship and Job Placement program). • Returning traffi cking survivors (Protection
ser-vices)
Those most at risk come from poor families with: Women as the head of household
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Women as the main wage earners •
Multiple daughters in the high risk age group •
(12-25)
Family members who are handicapped or have •
long-term illness
ADAPT seeks to empower young girls and women by increasing their access to education, to safer and better economic opportunities. We provide each recipient with comprehensive and in-dividualized assistance. We work closely with our recipients’ respective families and communities to strengthen support for the young women.
A program manager with a large U.S. funding organization said “[PALS] staff know each family personally, look after them like a set of den moth-ers and give them a level of attention and commit-ment I have not seen in my ten years working in international development.”
