Connie's Home is a group foster home in northern Thailand providing care for children awaiting international adoption. Some 50 children have been adopted out over the life of the home. Food and diapers are among the highest expenses in operating a healthy home. We provide some of our food from an on-site Aquaponics project to help offset the cost of nutritious food. Salaries for our Thai staff, some who are former drug mules from the Juvenile Detention Center, are our greatest monthly expense.

The HUG Project Thailand is preventing, protecting, and restoring children from sexual abuse and human trafficking. By partnering with police, schools, communities, families, and children themselves, HUG is helping to bring JUSTICE to those who harm children sexually, and HEALING to survivors. Founder, Boom Mosby, has been recognized by the US State Department as a Trafficking In Persons HERO (the first Thai woman to receive this honor) and by Vital Voices as a Global Human Rights Leader.

The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted another global epidemic: child sexual abuse and online exploitation. With both offenders and children at home using the internet, casework has been soaring. The impact of these crimes against children is impossible to overstate. Depression and suicide are common and on the rise. This project will provide trauma-informed counseling, as well as other victim support such as home visits and family therapy through the Child Advocacy Center in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

The Seed of Hope Dorm, in Northern Thailand, boards 33+ children who wouldn't otherwise have access to education. We are seeking to build an education center that will nurture these students' educational pursuits. The center will have a library to give them a love for reading, arts and crafts room where they will learn traditional crafts by their village elders so their heritage will not be forgotten. It will also feature classrooms for students to study and be tutored.

DigiServe IT Academy Plus provides an 18-month work-study and apprenticeship program for unemployed adults (due to Covid) who desire to start a new career in IT. They are taught web development and life skills in order to prepare them to enter the IT industry and succeed. The program is designed so that they learn alongside experienced professionals through hands-on projects that support other non-profit organizations (the mission of DigiServe)

Ubon Ratchathani is home to many Thai migrant workers who have lost their jobs and returned home from Bangkok due to do the COVID-19 pandemic. We have an already-existing infant formula program in partnership with the Thai government's Department of Social Development & Welfare. We will be delivering food and infant formula with the Thai government to families who have been identified as most in need. We hope to bridge the gap for families until they can go back to work when the economy reopens.

Home of the Swallow serves disadvantaged women in Thailand who experience unplanned pregnancies and are facing cultural, financial, or familial pressure to abort or reject their babies. Using a holistic approach, Home of the Swallow provides opportunities for education, counseling, life and job skill training, parenting classes, and emotional support within a safe and encouraging environment. We hope to empower the women to become independent, loving mothers to their children.

The Light Center's mission is to give hope and support to vulnerable pregnant women, to provide foster care for children waiting to be adopted, and to protect and restore victims of sexual abuse. Our vision is to support strong and healthy families in Thai society. Mother's who can raise their own children. Foster children living in safe and loving families. Justice and a new future for sexual abuse victims.

Thailand is home to a rich culture of almost 70 million people. Many of these are desperately poor. These poor (sometimes tribal communities such as Thai Yai, Karen or Akha) are often sought out by traffickers because of the need for money. COVID's hurting these populations ability to work making the risk from traffickers increased dramatically. We at "Bread for Life" provide food specific to poor at risk communities and seek to develop relationships to help break the cycle of poverty.

LIFT International seeks freedom through justice for survivors. We partner with governments, grassroots organisations, law enforcement, and international agencies to hold offenders accountable. We believe in prevention through prosecution. We work to disrupt offenses, secure fair sentences and put traffickers out of business because we know justice is a powerful deterrent. We advocate for victims and survivors of sexual exploitation to protect their rights and increase their access to justice.

IWF called 2021 the "worst year on record" for child sexual abuse online. The HUG Project is addressing this issue by sharing a vital tool called Exposed to help children protect themselves from online predators. Exposed was created in cooperation with a survivor, known as "Meetoo", who decided to reclaim her story by helping other victims find a path to recovery through this handbook. We printed over 500 books but we have already given all of them away to children and families.

This project will provide water well, pump, transmission line and storage tanks to remote villages in northern Thailand. The lack of a clean water supply increases health risks, hinders agricultural development, and requires much time and energy to obtain the water necessary for daily living. Our goal this year is to install / improve / renovate water systems in 50 villages to improve the quality of life for thousands of families.

Preserve My Story - Digiserve developed the Child at Risk System (CARS) to be an archive of all a child's information over their lifespan in the children's home as well as a health monitoring system that keeps up to date information on a child's physical, social, and mental wellbeing. Staff will have accurate and timely information about each child so they can all work together to make sure the child has the best environment and opportunities to develop.

Young victims of sex trafficking not only endure sexual trauma but also face many challenges in trying to rebuild their lives. Unexpected financial burdens can include medical care, unplanned pregnancy as the result of abuse, counseling, and transitional housing- as the trauma is often perpetrated or aided by family members. Our team, led by Vital Voices Human Rights Global Leader, Boom Mosby, assists children under 18 years old (as young as 3 years old) to find hope and healing from abuse.

This project will support the training and administrative expenses required to accomplish six key objectives. We work in cooperation with government agencies and private organizations to 1. support and encourage strong and healthy families. 2. prevent social problems in Thai society. 3. develop good leaders. 4. support and create education opportunities. 5. establish counseling centers to address family problems, addictions, and abuse. 6. provide expertise and collaboration with 49 partners.

For many families in Northern Thailand, education is a luxury they cannot afford. Education Matters, our scholarship program, supports low income families to send their children to school by covering educational costs including tuition, school lunch and uniforms. By supporting children to complete high school and even attend university, these children will grow up better equipped to provide for their families, thus ending the vicious cycle of poverty, abuse and neglect.