VAN ANH NGUYEN
Founding Chairwoman - Director of CSAGA
Van Anh has been known as a committed social activist who has made great efforts in fighting for women’s rights. Van Anh founded CSAGA in 2001. Over the last 20 years, Van Anh has worked to promote the rights of women who are vulnerable to domestic violence, human trafficking and LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) discrimination.
As a former reporter at the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) Radio Station, Van Anh has many initiatives in communicating about women related issues.
Together with counterparts, Van Anh established and developed the DOVIPNET and GBV networks in Vietnam. She is also a member of the Global Network of Women’s Shelters and Asian Network of Women’s Shelters.
In her career, Van Anh has won a number of awards, including the Second Prize in the 1991 UNICEF Writing Contest for Children, the Silver Award at the 2000 Radio Festival, the 21 Women Leaders of the 21st Century Prize by the US Women’s eNews Magazine, and Character of the Month voted by the US Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2012.
After nearly 20 years working as director and founder of CSAGA, at the moment Van And concentrates on training the next generation of young leaders.
NGUYEN THU THUY
Deputy Director
Thuy is CSAGA’s Deputy Director who has recognizable capacity in implementing prevention programs and organizing communication events to improve people’s awareness about the issues of violence against women. Thuy has successfully ran and supported the counseling hotline and victim support office for survivors of gender-based violence. She is also the main coordinator of the National Gender-Based Violence Prevention Network. Thuy has created a wide network of journalists and reporters who support CSAGA in increasing gender sensitivity through mass media. Since 2000, Thuy has organized many national campaigns on gender-based violence preventions and made great success..
TRINH THI THU HA
Specialist in gender - CSAGA's support office for survivors of GBV
Ms. Trinh Thu Ha has more than 15 years of experience in psychological counseling and support for survivors of violence at CSAGA's support office for survivors of GBV. She is one of the veteran counsellor of CSAGA who has been involved in operating the hotline to support people experiencing gender-based violence since its inception. Until now, Ms. Trinh Thu Ha has continued to participate in operating CSAGA's hotline and chat support service for survivors of violence.
With knowledge and many-year experience, she has supported thousands of people experiencing violence, helping them stabilize their moods, providing them with knowledge and helping them to develop safety plans in violent situations.
VU TUYET ANH
Specialist in gender - CSAGA's support office for survivors of GBV
Ms. Vu Tuyet Anh has more than 15 years of working experience in directly supporting survivors of gender-based violence.
She is also a specialist in gender with many years of experience in developing content, facilitating training and workshop on topics related to gender and prevention and response to gender-based violence. She also participates in creating content for a variety of publications of CSAGA on these topics, including documents, books, toolkits, content for websites, apps.
