Dart Centre Asia Pacific

I think the program is very, very, very empowering. I've learned a lot about technology facilitated gender based violence … it's reinforcing my learning. I will really use the resources I gained from this program.

It was brilliant, thank you

This is valuable training especially for participants in countries where there is very little discussion of trauma and no access to support services for various reasons.

I think this program plays a pivotal role in the life of journalists as most of the time. We are being told to be brave and to be tough to report on disasters and once it is done, we just have to deal with trauma privately like it's something bad.  Since last year, as a leader … I have talked with my team about trauma and how it is something that they should not be ashamed of.

Joining (the Dart program) is the pivotal point in my career as a journalist and as an editor to (my country’s) largest daily newspaper. It has awakened me to my environment, that of my newsroom's and reporters', and the pure testimony is in the performance of my reporters right now. I have been in the editorial position for 10 years, and only after joining Dart in 2023, and applying Dart concepts in supporting my reporters, have I seen true improvement and empowerment. Eight years prior to joining Dart, my newsroom had a huge turnover rate, losing reporters left and right, mysterious low performance by reporters despite all the help the paper and editorial team gave them to support them to enrich their capacities. Since … I joined my first Dart training, and came back and started helping my reporters (and other local journalists outside my newsroom), my reporters have shown rejuvenation in their work output, renewed passion for the job, restored curiosity to sniff out news, and being fearless and empowered to hold authorities to account. I am a believer of Dart's message on trauma because I am a witness to the power of trauma and its success over journalists who are not aware. I recommend all newsrooms across Asia/ Pacific and the globe to engage with Dart.

Please fund more trainings as such because it will help journalists in countries with lack of resources such as in the Pacific Islands.

I am really honoured to have been part of this, too, that even though I thought I knew some of the online attacks, and how to prevent them, that I learned so much from everybody, and hearing, not just from our country, but all over Asia, that what we're going through is so similar