Taking time to give back
At Nineteen Degrees, we are proud of the key partnerships we have with like-minded social enterprises, community groups and not-for-profit organisations. Through this page we will promote our partners and their products including ways you can continue to support them.
Days for Girls
Days for Girls increases access to menstrual care and education by developing global partnerships, cultivating social enterprises, mobilizing volunteers, and innovating sustainable solutions that shatter stigmas and limitations for women and girls. Their movement has reached more than one million girls! Nineteen Degrees programs provide Days For Girls health education and promotion to local schools and womens groups.
ReThink Orphanages
ReThink Orphanages is a global cross-sector coalition working to prevent family separation and the unnecessary institutionalization of children by shifting the way countries engage with overseas aid and development. They have audited every Nineteen Degrees program and can confirm that we do not support orphanage tourism and choose to support services to keep families together.
Donate and shop
We like to support our host partners in Asia in any way we can. The community projects and organisations we work with deserve to be celebrated by their supporters. Through this page we will promote our partners and their products including ways you can support them through donations and online shopping.
Purkal Stree Shakti Samiti
PSSS is an NGO engaged in women empowerment for 41 villages. The PSSS programs aim to help rural women become entrepreneurs through welfare support. This includes free skill training, workspace, nutrition, healthcare, transport and a day care centre for their infants. The status of women has grown significantly through the Society and now these women participate in panchayat, reject early marriage, care for proper nutrition and their living standards have grown. The ladies of the self-help groups affiliated with PSSS sell their international quality handicrafts online. Click on the below for the latest selections of bed covers, baby quilts, cushion covers and bags via their Facebook page. International shipping to Australia possible.
Purkal Youth Development Society
PYDS is dedicated to enhancing the lives of underprivileged rural young people. To achieve this, they offer holistic care and education, and foster in these children a desire for excellence. Part of this mission is instilling in the students a sense of community; a respect for responsible, ethical living, and a desire to preserve the beautiful environment of the Himalayan foothills of their birth. Their education is broad based and encompasses a wide variety of experiences. Education provided to them is designed to be enjoyable and meaningful, sensitive to the rural needs and supplemented by nutrition and healthcare. PYDS depend on friends and well- wishers for sustaining this goal. Please consider making a contribution now.
NGOs, Community Organisations
& Institutions
Along with key hospitals and health clinics, Nineteen Degrees are also proud to partner with the following NGOs, community organisations and institutions.
Cambodian Diabetes Association
Determined to dramatically reduce the number of Cambodians developing diabetes through education and primary prevention.
Grace House Community Centre
NGO providing community development, sustainability, education and family support in Siem Reap.
Hanoi Medical University
Hanoi Medical University, one of the leading Universities in Vietnam with a history of more than one hundred years, strives continuously to improve human health by reaching excellence in health worker training, in science and technology, and in providing senior experts for the health sector.
Khon Kaen University
Khon Kaen University (KKU) was established as the major university in the Northeastern part of Thailand in 1964 and has developed itself to become one of the top universities in Thailand. KKU currently has more than 40,000 students studying in 17 faculties, 1 satellite campus, 1 school, and 3 colleges and in 43 International/English programs which cover a wide variety of disciplines.
KOTO
Not-for-profit social enterprise that empowers at-risk and disadvantaged youth in Vietnam through its holistic hospitality training program.
Laos Friends Hospital for Children
They provide free, compassionate medical care for children. They provide education and training to health care professionals throughout Southeast Asia. They improve the health, nutrition and hygiene of local communities through their outreach programs.
Latika Roy Foundation
Voluntary organization in India working with children and adults who have developmental and other disabilities.
Lion’s Club Nepal
At the heart of Lions clubs there is one constant: service.
Military Handicap Development Centre
Set up predominantly to house army personnel, and their families, who have been injured during the course of their career in the National Cambodian Army, whether in active service or from landmine injuries.
Physical Rehabilitation Centre
The Siem Reap and Battambang rehabilitation centres are two of 11 centres in Cambodia ministered partly by the Cambodian Government and partly by Handicap International - an international solidarity organisation specialising in the field of disability. The centres assist people injured in traffic accidents, people injured from mishandling of mines and unexploded ordinance, and children with cerebral palsy and developmental delay. Their services include making and fitting prosthetic limbs, rehabilitation services and generating educational materials.
Seven Women
Empowering marginalised women in Nepal through education and employment.
Waste Warriors
Non-profit organisation and a registered society committed to cleaning up India!