Goals & Objectives

KGA actively pursues our mission through 4 core strategies: leadership development, community organizing, participatory action research, and advocacy/civic engagement.

All of KGA’s programming components foster and encourage analysis of gender, class, race, sexuality, and culture. Our program includes:

Leadership Development: Our intensive leadership trainings includes increasing Cambodian girls and young women’s knowledge on a range of issues, including promoting healthy self image, understanding gender roles, gay/lesbian/bi/transgender issues, reproductive heath and rights, sexual harassment and violence against women, and analyzing power, privilege and oppression.

Cultural Historical Arts: Our cultural expression and production activities use the power of history, language, tradition, identity, and culture to document community history and experiences, engage community members, and inspire change.

Learning to Impact for Empowerment (L.I.F.E): KGA is committed to the holistic development of our members and support them in their home and school life. We provide concrete services to our members including one-on-one counseling to ensure they are on track to graduate from high school, prepare for college, develop their career, receive academic tutoring, life skills development workshops and engage our members’ parents in their academic and personal life.

Our organizing work builds from all of our program components to provide opportunities for the community to use their collective power and create institutional change. KGA believes that building the political analysis of our members to understand the complexities of national policies that attack immigrants, people of color, poor families, women, and young people contribute to building knowledge and power of the community to fight and advocate for justice within the context of improving their lives and the communities they live. The focus is not just on individual behavior change, but systems change and approaching this change in a comprehensive manner through our organizing model that incorporates the strength of youth, gender, culture, and community.

We identify our role as building a base of young women of color activists to lead in organizing efforts to bring groups together to create collective power, promote just policies that are accountable to immigrant and refugee communities, and challenge the ideology that Asian women cannot be leaders in this struggle.

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