About ISSIA

The Inter-School Social Issues Association (ISSIA) is a youth-led non-profit based in the Asia Pacific. We cultivate global citizenship and empower young changemakers through peer-to-peer and project-based learning as the go-to hub for all things global issues. Currently, ISSIA has over 300+ members across 70+ schools.

Since 2019, with a focus on SDG 4 (Quality Education) and 17 (Partnership for the Goals), we've established more than 30+ projects as the largest youth-led organisation in Hong Kong. For example, 180+ articles on our website (issiahk.org), ISSIAMUN, a debate program, a docuseries, podcasts and Youth NGOs Conferences, where we connected 20+ youth-led NGOs through up-skilling workshops, panels etc.

At ISSIA, we aim to provide a different kind of education - we cultivate global citizenship and empower young changemakers through peer-to-peer and project-based learning. With this model - everything is youth-led and youth-operated, meaning peers share best practices in a collaborative space where we work towards the SDGs. We actively involve a large number of local school students in our team to provide co-curricular global citizenship education through a peer-to-peer model and project-based model.

We believe in the notion that the 'whole is more than the sum of its parts'. As the largest youth-led NGO in Hong Kong, we have been working on cocreating a wider coalition and ecosystem of aspiring and leading changemakers in Hong Kong and elsewhere in the Asia Pacific.