Helping Children from Ex-Sex workers in Thailand

Hello everybody!

Greetings from Thailand. We trust that you had a great start into 2020 and hope that it will be an exciting year for you. Here at Tamar Center we had an amazing start into the new year with a day of reflection and goal setting on the 3^rd of January. But on the 8^th of January we got a special treat for everyone: We were able to visit the Pattaya Elephant Sanctuary with all our women. Most of them had never been close to an Elephant before and some were very scared but, in the end, everyone enjoyed it. We fed the elephants, showered them, walked through the jungle with them and even took a bath together. Everybody enjoyed the outing and we will go back in March with the older children so that they can enjoy it as well.

December was an exciting month for our Children. Thanks to “Cyclists with Compassion” who did a Sponsor Ride in Thailand we were able to take all the Tamar Children to fun outing to the Open Zoo in Sri Racha. You can see on the pictures how they enjoyed this outing. And during our yearly Christmas Party there were many happy faces, as the children all unwrapped their presents. The kids really got into them and played the whole day and long into the night. Especially nice was it to see the younger kids “reading” – better looking – at a book. Most of them did not own any books, but for this years Christmas we got each of them a book and also stocked our Nursery with a bigger selection of books so that the Nursery Teachers have a bigger selection to read to the children from.

In the next months we will also get at least two more children as two of the women that we have taken in in the last year are pregnant. Both women are doing well, and we expect to have the new babies join us in March/April of this year. Also, over the Christmas break, our houses were full of many more children as many came to visit their mothers in the school holidays. It was nice to see them re-united and we are also happy to see that one woman has decided to keep her child with her now and not to sent him back to the grandparents. But it is also a challenge, as they are not used to looking after a baby. We try to give them as much help as possible and encourage them.

Thank you for helping us look after these precious children.

For the Tamar Family

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