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Who Are We?
PT Foundation (previously known as Pink Triangle
Sdn Bhd) is a community-based, voluntary non-profit making organization
providing HIV/AIDS education, prevention, care and support programmes,
sexuality awareness and empowerment programmes for vulnerable communities in
Malaysia.
We work with 5 vulnerable
communities mainly drug users, sex workers, transsexuals, men who have sex
with men (MSM), and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).
Our Mission
Our mission is
to be the most efficient community-based organization providing information,
education and care services relating to HIV/AIDS and sexuality in Malaysia,
working with communities that are difficult to reach due to societal
discrimination.
PT Foundation's
5
Communities Programs
With much assistance from the Malaysian Aids Council (MAC), we oversee 6
communities within the foundation. An elected Core Group and a Chairperson
represent each of this community, allowing us to lead, strengthen and
support an expended response to HIV/AIDS.
Background
Since Pink
Triangle (PT Foundation former name) was founded in 1987 to provide
telephone counselling about HIV/AIDS and sexuality, it has expanded its
services responding to the needs and concerns of various communities that
are discriminated against because of HIV, AIDS and/or sexuality.
Objectives
We are committed to create an
enabling environment for marginalized communities to feel safe and empowered
to look after themselves:
To help minimize the rate of infection of HIV/AIDS amongst
our communities
To help provide care and support and improve the quality
of life for people living with HIV/AIDS
To help reduce discrimination of our communities that is
based on ignorance and lack of information
Innovation for Malaysians and Global Networking
PT Foundation
is regularly invited to give talks and conduct seminars or workshops in
corporations, hospitals, factories, companies, charities,
youth organizations, schools, colleges and universities.
In order to mobilize vastly more resources for this purpose, we are an
affiliate member of:
The Malaysian AIDS Council (MAC)
To help provide care and support and improve the quality
of life for people living with HIV/AIDS
To help reduce discrimination of our communities that is
based on ignorance and lack of information
Our Way of Working
We consult, guild and empower
We are non-judgemental
We are volunteer-based
We provide support, hope and care
We educate our communities for sustained change
At PT Foundation, we believe real change - that makes a positive
and lasting impact in people's lives - takes place through community
development methods as recognized by the World Health Organization
(WHO) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
These methods include peer outreach, safe spaces, community-appropriate
information and ensuring that programs are largely 'owned' and managed by
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