Scribble and Scrabble: Youth and Students Advancing Gender Equality: Experiencing Authentic Sisterhood and Brotherhood

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Youth and Students Advancing Gender Equality: Experiencing Authentic Sisterhood and Brotherhood

Valencia, Negros Oriental

With other delegates of the 3rd Young Women's Camp on Gender Issues, Sexuality and Prostitution

Organized by the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women- Asia Pacific (CATW-AP)

CATW-AP conducts camps on gender issues, sexuality and prostitution addressing the vulnerability of young women to sexual exploitation and reducing the number of perpetrators among men. Graduates formed Youth and Students Advancing Gender Equality (YSAGE). YSAGE CATW-AP's youth arm, is a national advocacy organization campaigning against prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation and inequality. YSAGE multiplies CATW-AP's efforts in the Philippines to educate the public, especially youth on gender issues but most importantly gender inequality, as manifested particularly in sexual exploitation.

1st IndonesiaYoung Women's Camp
Yogyakarta, Indonesia

We are graduates of youth camps on gender issues, sexuality and prostitution organized by the Coalition against Trafficking in Women – Asia Pacific (CATW-AP). Our lives were changed since, and most of us organized “echo camps” which produced even more gender advocates, and they, too are with us. Having established chapters of the Youth and Students Advancing Gender Equality (YSAGE) in the cities/municipalities of Cotabato, Palawan, Davao, Negros Occidental, Batangas, Cordilleras and NCR, as well as in Indonesia and India, we have sustained the objectives of CATW-AP in organizing the camps and intend to reach more youth and students who will pursue the vision of a world free from sexual exploitation, especially trafficking and prostitution, where there is equality between women and men.

In our fight for equality, we had learnt about what sisterhood and brotherhood truly mean.