Chaktomuk Short Film Festival 2021
Chaktomuk Short Film Festival will launch its online screening of short films on 23rd October 2021 on its official Facebook page.
Cyclo Drivers’ Adversities Retold through Rap Song and Lakhon Khol
Cambodian cyclo’s popularity has declined and the livelihoods of three-wheel bicycle taxi drivers have been threatened, especially during COVID-19. Without tourist customers, they have earned much less than usual. To highlight their plight, artists have retold the drivers’ story through rap music along with Lakhon Khol traditional dance.
Job Announcement: Administration Officer
As SEA Junction is in its 6th year of operation and our activities expand, there is a need to add an office staff who is able to work in a flexible manner in a small office with a multicultural environment and a variety of needs.
Insight – Informal workers in South-East Asia: Resourceless, yet resourceful
INFORMAL workers dominate the region’s labour market in both urban and rural areas. More than half of the workforce in most South-East Asian countries earn their living in the informal sector, with the proportion surpassing 80% in Cambodia and Myanmar
Creative Recovery of Women Farmers
Baryo Balangaw Creative Initiatives hopes to address the need for supplemental creative livelihoods in the women farming community amid surge in stress during pandemic. Its empowering project resulted in stress relief and newfound skills which generate supplemental income for women farmers.
Informal workers in Southeast Asia: Resourceless, yet Resourceful
Around the region, informal workers are organizing and taking action to support each other during the crisis, all the while working to ensure a more just and protected future.
Job Announcement: Librarian (Part Time)
The library collection of SEA Junction consists of about 4,000 books on the various countries of Southeast Asia. While a large portion of the books has been catalogued, there is a need to review the system and the entries (both in xl and in the e-library)
Building a Community to Save Young Lives
When Covid-19 ravaged the Philippines in early 2020, the rate of youth suicide took an alarming turn for the worse. Many young Filipinos were struggling to cope and access to mental health support was scarce, especially in rural communities. It was clear an intervention was desperately needed.
No Way Forward, No Way Back for Migrants in Chiang Rai
In the fieldwork at the Aid Coordination Center for Migrant Workers in Chiang Rai, drawing could help me relax myself and also tell the stories without invading others’ privacy. I put together lines and watercolor into the stories of migrant workers who could find no way forward and no way back.
Women Rise above the Pandemic Shock
Mayla, Noemi and Nora are Filipino women who live on the margins, barely surviving every single day with meager incomes. When the Philippine government imposed the lockdown on March 16, 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, life for these women became even more unbearable.