ThailandWe just got home from three months in Thailand. It was absolutely amazing. Our focus of the trip was Human Trafficking. We did prevention work, outreach to victims and recovery work. Our team was able to impact many men women and children who were in vulnerable situations. The main problem that puts people "at risk" is being poor or generational debts. In the Red Light Districts our girls built relationships with women being trafficked and our men reached out to the tourist men who were there to purchase women.
We spent the first 4 weeks in Chiang Mai. There we did prevention work with children in the slums and a nearby village an we worked in the Red Light Districts. We were able to help 2 girls come out of the sex industry and begin to rebuild their lives. The next 5 weeks we were in Pattaya . This city was literally founded for sex tourism. On one street alone there are approximately 20,000 men, women and children being enslaved and sold for sex. Here we worked in the red light districts building relationships with girls, teaching English classes to prostitutes as a form of outreach, worked with at risk children and were a part of assisting women that had been rescued and are rebuilding their lives. During this time we were apart of 23 children being rescued and 91 women being introduced to the organization that is rescuing women from trafficking. We also had the plessure of painting a playground, building wardrobes and painting a home for children who have been rescued from at risk situations! We finished our time in Phuket. Another city known for sex tourism. We did outreach in the Red Light Districts and assisted the organization there reaching out to women who have been trafficked. Our trip was incredibly fruitful and we had the honor of truly taking action and standing for those who cannot stand for themselves. Our team had moments of real brokenness as we faced the reality of trafficking but left Thailand with so much empowerment and hope for the future.
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