HIV Awareness raising in prisons and communities

We are very pleased to introduce to you, the latest addition to our prison team: Krutmuang Pongsagon. He is a young man who is an ex inmate himself. He wants to use his experience to help other inmates and is very compassionate towards them.

Growing up without his parents, Krutmuang ended up in the crime scene and started selling drugs. At one point he got arrested and ended up in a juvenile prison outside of Bangkok. In prison he was visited by a missionary and he became a Christian. His life was changed and after a couple of years, Krutmuang was released from prison. 

Different life
It has been many years since Krutmuang was in prison. Since he was released he really changed his ways. He got a job in a cafe that reaches out to university students and tries to counsel and help them during their study. He liked his job but really wanted to get in touch with inmates again. Not to be one of them, but to help them and warn them for the risks of an criminal lifestyle, full of drugs and (unprotected) sex. He knew one of the staff members of Siam-Care and after talking to them, Siam-Care offered him a job.

Easy to relate to each other
Krutmuang is a tough guy, with tattoos on his arms. He knows what it is like to be in prison. Hence it is easy for him to relate to prisoners and also easy for prisoners to relate to him. They believe him and have respect for him. He is a great addition to our team and will hopefully stay with Siam-Care for a long time. He did many prison visits with Siam-Care already over the past few months and showed that he has a lot of potential as a prison worker.