Helping Children from Ex-Sex workers in Thailand

Hello everyone!

Time for a short update from us in Pattaya. In October we were able to add another 13 children to our Tamar Children Sponsorship program. These are the children of the women that have finished the Tamar vocational and life training and are now employed with us. They actually have more children than that, but the other children are cared for by the father’s family and have no need for sponsorship. From the 13 new children three have moved into our housing and two more will come in the month of November, the others are staying with relatives. It is nice to see our family grow. The mothers are very thankful for the support that they are getting and asked us to express their thanks to you as well.

In November, our children are looking forward to some school free time. In Thailand schools started to open again at the end of summer but with reduced or alternate days for the kids to attend. Some schools even did only half days for the kids – some in the morning and some in the afternoon. As you can imagine this was very difficult for us to organize and it was stressful for the children as well. But now they are all fulltime back in school and the government has decided to give them all two-week break at the end of November. We are using this time to also give all the women at Tamar a couple of days off and so they can spend some time together with their children or with their families.

In the last months we also had a number of trips to Issan, the eastern region of Thailand, were we go to the visit the villages of the women in our program to help them rebuilt relationships with their families. During these visits we often to some children programs, offer free haircuts to the villagers and much more. You can see some pictures below; they always have a good time.

Thank you for your support for the children of our women. It makes a huge difference in their lives and it is nice to see them develop and being cared for.

For the Tamar Family