2022 CAMPAIGN
Join the movement to prevent child trafficking
We’re connecting at-risk children to mentorship, resources, and people with hearts set on protecting them from trafficking and exploitation. Help us raise $100,000 by midnight PST on Dec. 31, 2022, to prevent child trafficking in northern Thailand.
2022 CAMPAIGN
Join the movement to prevent child trafficking
We’re connecting at-risk children to mentorship, resources, and people with hearts set on protecting them from trafficking and exploitation. Help us raise $100,000 by midnight PST on Dec. 31, 2022, to prevent child trafficking in northern Thailand.
Together, we can break the cycle of trafficking at the source.
In Northern Thailand, three things put children at higher risk of being trafficked: poverty, low levels of education, and social marginalization. COVID-19 has made these people more vulnerable to exploitation than ever.
Total raised so far:
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Goal: $100,000
“Kids who drop out of school have two options: sell sex or sell drugs.”
– Local Thai Teacher
Northern Thailand is a known source of child trafficking, with a high poverty rate, low education rate, and many marginalized groups.
For many families in Chiang Rai and Nan provinces, this is a generational problem. But it has a solution.
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Families in Northern Thailand work in back-breaking agricultural jobs to support their families. Despite their hard work, they must survive on less than $2 per person per day.
With families to support, many cannot afford to continue to send their children to school. They consider pulling their children out of school. However, without education, children cannot access employment that brings enough income to help support their families.
43%
Even so, they need help now. Families take their children out of school to save costs and send them to work in bigger cities, where the sex trade lures them in with the promise of a lot of fast money.
19%
Isolation, mental health struggles, legal status issues, and a history of trauma or abuse also put children at risk. 68% of children in the North receive violent discipline.
Families with children at risk of trafficking and exploitation receive scholarships to support them to stay in school. Scholarships ease financial burdens.
Mentors help families strengthen their relationships and provide the children with the psycho-social support needed to thrive.
Micro-businesses provide supplemental income for families who are struggling financially.
Those on the margins of society are equipped with knowledge about trafficking and are empowered to access their rights.
With income, education, and knowledge, the future is bright and full of opportunities.
The Problem
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Families in Northern Thailand work in back-breaking agricultural jobs to support their families. Despite their hard work, they must survive on less than $2 per person per day.
With families to support, many cannot afford to continue to send their children to school. They consider pulling their children out of school. However, without education, children cannot access employment that brings enough income to help support their families.
26%
Even so, they need help now. Families take their children out of school to save costs and send them to work in bigger cities, where the sex trade lures them in with the promise of a lot of fast money.
receive violent discipline
Isolation, mental health struggles, legal status issues, and a history of trauma or abuse also put children at risk. 68% of children in the North receive violent discipline.
Our solution
Our solution
Families with children at risk of trafficking and exploitation receive scholarships to support them to stay in school. Scholarships ease financial burdens.
Mentors help families strengthen their relationships and provide the children with the psycho-social support needed to thrive.
Micro-businesses provide supplemental income for families who are struggling financially.
Those on the margins of society are equipped with knowledge about trafficking and are empowered to access their rights.
With income, education, and knowledge, the future is bright and full of opportunities.
Your support enables us to invest in two provinces where trafficking rates are high and the children need help.
We believe that preventing the cycle of trafficking and exploitation is possible. We are working in these two communities to provide access to education, income generation, and knowledge about rights.
Chiang Rai:
Partner
since
2008
261
Scholarship students
21,000+
People served
IN NAN:
Partner
since
2020
65
Scholarship students
1,500+
People served
“I appreciate The Freedom Story and its staff that supported and took care of me, no matter whether it was an academic or life challenge. Everyone was so nice to me. Thank you to all the sponsors who gave me opportunities to improve my life. I felt so lucky.”
- Amy, TFS student
What Lengths Would You Go To For Your Family?
When Self-Sacrifice is a Risk
Buiy is the kind of person to skip meals if it means her younger siblings get to eat. By the time she was 14 years old, she already had a lot of experience in doing without. She is Akha, an ethnic minority in Thailand, a factor that already puts her at risk of trafficking and exploitation, due to discrimination.
Money has always been tight for their family of seven. When her uncle was in jail, their family lived in his house and helped take care of his daughter, Buiy’s cousin. When he was released and returned home, they had to borrow money to build a home for themselves, which led to a lot of arguments….
Click here to learn more about Buiy and how we’re supporting her!
