Empowering Lives,
Combating Trafficking,
Building Futures.
Magnuson Trust supports organisations dedicated to advancing
anti-HUMAN trafficking,
climate resilience and
sustainable livelihoods.
Anti-HUMAN trafficking
Around the world and especially in Southeast Asia, vulnerable individuals are defrauded, forced or coerced into multiple forms of slavery, including sex trafficking, forced labour, bonded labour, child slavery and forced marriage. Magnuson Trust is strongly committed to empowering the vulnerable, fighting for the freedom of those who have fallen victim to trafficking and rebuilding the dignity of survivors. Ending trafficking requires interventions at multiple points along a continuum, from preventing more individuals from entering into trafficking, to bolstering law enforcement, and helping survivors rehabilitate their socioeconomic and psychological well-being.
Magnuson Trust makes grants to organisations working to:
Address the root causes of trafficking by building resilience and reducing multi-dimensional vulnerability;
Promote safer and more informed migration
Prosecute traffickers and take down trafficking networks;
Provide long-term aftercare and dignified reintegration.
We fund grassroots organisations that provide essential services, as well as international coordination and collaboration activities.
Climate Resilience
Our collective willingness to fight climate change will define this generation for those to come. As a Singapore-based foundation, we are keenly aware that our neighboring countries are among the world’s most vulnerable to climate change: much of Southeast Asia is characterised by low-lying plains and islands, long coastlines, and delta environments; extreme weather events that destroy environments and livelihoods are becoming increasingly frequent and intense; a large proportion of the population is dependent on their surrounding natural environment for survival.
Magnuson Trust makes grants to organisations working to:
Build the adaptive capacity of local communities to the effects of climate change;
Equip farmers to transition to climate-resilient practices;
Implement nature-based climate solutions such as reforestation, forest protection, regenerative agriculture, coastal wetland protection and restoration;
Promote a shift to clean energy alternatives that reduce reliance on coal, and oil and gas.
Increase equitable access to sustainable water sources and improved sanitation in areas vulnerable to droughts and flooding.
Sustainable Livelihoods
We believe in a world where everyone has the necessary skills and resources (material and social) that they need to find dignified employment to support themselves and their families. In Southeast Asia, we look at sustainable livelihoods in the context of disaster-prone, post-conflict and climate-vulnerable situations.
Magnuson Trust makes grants to organisations working to:
Place and keep at-risk children in school;
Provide vocational training for disadvantaged women and youths to improve their employment prospects and quality of life;
Develop and refine sustainable and locally-appropriate livelihood strategies;
Build viable social enterprises that will benefit disadvantaged communities;
Promote sustainable and locally-led natural resource management.