Prevent Trafficking: Educate 130 Thai Children

Wow! Look what your gifts help to accomplish in 2017.

444 Nutritional sets

More than 100 families received supplies throughout the year. Your gifts help to purchase 444 500kg bags of rice, large bottles of cooking oil, fish sauce and oyster sauce. We do not just get what's on sale - we get the best quality because the children and families we have the privilege of serving deserve the same quality as we choose to consume in our homes. The families are provided with these basic essentials lessening the burden of providing good meals for their families. 

458 Hygiene sets

The health and hygiene sets are an ongoing distribution for the families and children of the GRACE family resource center. Every child receives a new dental package every other month. The package contains a new toothbrush, toothpaste, mouthwash and floss. Hygiene bags contain items including new combs, washcloths, soap/bodywash, hand sanitizers, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, and more. Each child and family received hygiene sets last year.

You help to ensure the family resource centers, which enroll about 108 children, provide educational support through homework assistance, tutoring, English language classes, arts and crafts, singing and dancing, structured play time and lots of fun. The aim is to provide holistic care for these with whom we are given the opportunity to serve. 

We are so very humbled and honored that you chose to direct funding to help us make this amazing impact in the lives of such beautiful people. 

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GRACE FRC Provides Day Camp Throughout October

Fifty-two children attended the holiday out-of-school day camp at GRACE Family Resource Center in Thailand. The month-long October holiday from school often exposes children without direct parental supervision to situations and conditions placing them at extremely high risk of being exploited or trafficked. Together, we provided day camp with educational tutoring, recreations, arts & crafts, music & dance, mathematics, reading, penmanship, problem solving games and more for the school-aged children. The average daily attendance was more than forty with eight staff members and volunteers. The center opened from seven o'clock in the morning until five o'clock in the afternoon each weekday. In addition to the educational advantage, the children received two meals and two snacks each day. Your support provides hope for these children and the future leaders of Thailand. 

THAILAND'S CHILD EDUCATION STATISTICS (October 2017)

IN THE NEWS: 3.17 million Thai children are labeled "high risk" - and experts are calling on the Ministry of Interiors to work alongside local organizations to improve the situation.

It's these very kids that GRACE is working to support, educate and encourage future opportunities to beat the heartbreaking statistics. Your contributions provide a safe and engaging environment where ten staff and volunteers teach at-risk children in an afterschool program.

"1.7 million Thai kids have learning problems, 476,647 are living in severe poverty, 200,000-300,000 are stateless, 138,000 are abandoned or living on the streets, 104,289 are teen mothers, 33,121 are child offenders and 25,000 have been forced into commercial sex."

THUMBS UP!

Thumbs up if you’ve been given an opportunity to have an education.
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Thumbs up if someone has believed in you.
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Thumbs up if someone has encouraged you to pursue your dreams.
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Thumbs up if you’ve fought and worked hard to achieve your goals.
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It’s a thumbs up kind of day and we’re counting all the blessings that enable and push us to bless others!
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