Strengthen capacity of communities to reduce risk and be prepared for disasters and minimize impacts on children. Build capacity of staff on disaster risk reduction and enhancing response mechanism to make programs more disaster risk sensitive. Prepare communities and children to mitigate the impact of climate change.

Community development is a process where community members are supported by agencies to identify and take collective action on issues which are important to them. Community development empowers community members and creates stronger and more connected communities.

From family planning to sexual and reproductive health interventions, to strategies for the poor, DS Foundation continues to work for the rights and protection of sex workers, female and male low skilled migrant workers, youth in the plantation sector, adolescent and secondary school youth. As a technical service provider, DS Foundation has engaged at a national and regional level in many consultations advocating fundamentally for the health rights and labor rights of low-skilled female migrant workers who are the most vulnerable in the migration discourse