Rahab works in the heart of Papong, bringing friendship and job skills to women rescued from and leaving the bars.
As relationships are built and women choose to leave the bars, Rahab staff offer them the opportunity to be sponsored to further their education. They offer immediate safe housing, a job working in their income generation project, a caring environment, and help with daycare for their children or even sponsorship for their children’s education. Each woman’s individual needs are carefully considered as Rahab seeks to facilitate the first step in helping them gain back their dignity and independence, and begin a new life.
The Rahab Ministries Sponsorship Program enables women to leave the bars and engage in vocational training or further education. Some children of bar women are sponsored to attend school. Some young girls “at risk” of entering prostitution are also helped to find other employment. One of the reasons girls become involved in prostitution is that they have little or no education and have insufficient employable skills to have adequate job options.
We are proud to partner with Rahab Bazaar
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Located in a neighborhood with a growing sex trade, Nightlight’s vision is to share the light of the world in both word and deed to those whose lives are blighted by darkness. Producing high-end jewelry gives women a chance to support themselves after escaping the horrors of the sex industry.
The beautiful jewelry of Nightlight tells stories of lives rebuilt and hope restored. Nightlight was launched to provide a sustainable path out of poverty and sexual abuse for Bangkok’s young women. They work in the heart of the Nana/Sukhumvit area, which is rife with sexual abuse, trafficking, and extreme poverty.
After observing the situation around them, they set a goal to combat the sexual exploitation of Women and Children (Thai and Foreign) in the Nana/Sukhumvit area.
Through life-on-life ministry, NightLight’s goal is to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of women in prostitution, their children, and those children brought illegally in Thailand to financially support their families by selling items in the bars and often through sexual exploitation. These goals will be met through building relationships with women and children who work in the sex trade industry along the Nana/Sukhumvit area and by providing a center that offers emergency aid, educational and employment opportunity, emergency child-care, language tutoring, literacy training, and biblical teaching and healing for their community.
Nightlight’s work with these women falls into three basic categories:
- Economic/Educational Opportunities: Providing alternatives through job training and education.
- Lifeskills training: To provide opportunities to train women and children on the risks of working in the sex trade and how to access the help they may need.
- Public Awareness and Involvement: To educate the public, Thai and foreign (religious and non-religious), of the physical, psychological, legal and economic consequences of prostitution and trafficking and to encourage their involvement in advocacy and follow-up care of the women and children.
We are proud to partner with Nightlight and to offer these brave women a chance to connect with women in America who would love nothing more than for their jewelry to be an expression of freedom and justice.
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Together Hagar International and STOPstart provide shelter, food, counseling, medical care, education, vocational training, and employment to women and children rescued from and vulnerable to abuse and the sex trade in Cambodia. Designing and sewing purses and bags gives them a chance to support their families with dignity and respect and enables them to reintegrate into the community again.
Hagar is an international Christian organization committed to the recovery, empowerment and reintegration of women and children in Afghanistan, Cambodia and Vietnam. At Hagar, social programs meet social business.
In mid-2009, Hagar sold their apparel and accessories business to STOPStart, an Australian-based company whose values align with those of Hagar’s. STOPStart will continue to be a strong Hagar partner, employing women from Hagar programs and developing relationships with existing customers.
StopStart (Stop human trafficking. Start new lives.) is a registered World Fair Trade organization that is committed to building sustainable businesses through the education, training and development of local Cambodians. Currently 60% of the StopStart Enterprise workforce have been rescued from slavery and are being trained and developed in language, design, machining and management.
