Only $150,000 is need for us to sustain for one year!

Let's face it! Hong Kong's backward sex education cannot fully prepare students for the new trends in youth life and need. Top-down sex education is the only thing we have right now. Sticky Rice Love innovates the field by introducing a bottom-up approach.
 

What the HK youth are facing

• Unlimited sexual content online creating misconceptions about sex

• Being judged for just being curious about sex

• Being treated as having no right and no skill to make their own choices

There is a real need for a youth-centered sexual health service. Do you know that sexual health is related to many social issues?

In Hong Kong,

• Youths think that the current sex education is not enough

• Youths think that online sex education information is unreliable

• Nearly half of sexually active youths do not use condoms

• Youths have the highest growth in new HIV infection cases

• Expected pregnancy and illegal abortion

What Sticky Rice Love does?

• Train youth leaders to promote sexual health

• We talk about sex comprehensively online and through offline events which include: Puberty and growth, reproductive health, romantic relationship, sexuality, gender issue, sexual coercion, and communication skills.  

• Bridge the gap between professionals and youth

• We are different as we are a youth-driven, evidence-based and a comprehensive sexual health education provider.

We have many enthusiastic volunteers and professional advisors, including doctors, professors, social workers, and sex therapists working with us. We have been receiving very positive feedback and questions daily on our online forum, we have reached thousands through our online journal. Apart from our existing work online, we hope to expand our service and develop various workshops for youth, schools, and parents.

Sticky Rice Love on media:

South China Morning Post: Sticky Rice Love offers a forum for under-25s to discuss their sexual problems

The NanFang: Hong Kong Youngsters Working to Break Sexual Taboos

RTHK Radio 2: Saturday Night With The Sex Crystals

The Loop: Hot Seat: Sticky Rice Love Director Talks About Sex

You can make a difference!

We have started getting invited to do workshops in schools. With your help, we will be able to 1) train university peer educators to deliver even more workshops and talks to the community and to schools, ones that will really suit youth need; 2) develop parents' workshops; 3) Improve our online platform; 4) do academic research on local sex education and 5) produce a series of sex education videos.

Sticky Rice Love is a highly cost-effective project! Are you willing to contribute to youth sexual health? 

Sticky Rice Love has been a volunteer-based organization since we started (many people think that we have paid staff due to the amount of work that we do). We really need a coordinator to arrange our expanding work and we need a work space for our staff. However, as a youth-driven charity, we experienced huge challenges in fundraising. Your contribution will enable us to continue making a difference in the lives of many youths.

150K + existing funding = 1 year operation

It includes a full-time project coordinator who will conduct sex education workshop and do administration. It also covers the website hosting fee, office, training fee of the peer youth educators, production cost of the videos and journal, and other sex education workshop fee such as transport and venue fee.

If it is lower than 150K, we will first cover towards  the website hosting fee, office, training fee of the peer youth educators, production cost of the videos and journal, and other sex education workshop fee such as transport and venue fee. Then we will hire a part-time administrator. 

Sticky Rice Love is a HK registered charity under Chapter 88. All of the funding will go through audits and report to the government annually to make sure that the fund is in good use :)

Organizer Info:

We are a team of passionate and dedicated young people with relevant sexual health knowledge from different areas.

Julia Sun, Founding Director

Julia Sun is the founding director of Sticky Rice Love. She is a research student in the Medicine Faculty of HKU dedicated to sexual health promotion research. She graduated from the psychology department of CUHK. She is passionate about sex education and doing related work since 2013. Apart from local sex education work, she was an intern and did sex education in rural Guangzhou.

Miki So, Online Operation Director

Miki is a student from Baptist University who study creative writing. She has been our editor for 1 years now. Personally, she is keen at improving the confidence of young girl.

Ivan Ho, Project Coordinator

Ivan is a CUHK sociology student with a minor in gender studies. He has been our volunteer for 1.5 years and took part in different kinds of activities.  

Jappy Cheung, Project Coordinator

Jappy Pui-yin Cheung, project coordinator, a year two student who is studying cultural studies at Lingnan University. As a girl living in Hong Kong, she was being asked not to talk about sex freely even on a sex related course in university. She is determined to change the conservative attitude towards sex in Hong Kong. After she took part in Sticky Rice Love, she joined and hold different sex related activities and workshops. She believes that both male and female can talk about sex without judgment and explore about themselves.

Acknowledgement: KIDULTS MAGAZINE