August 9th was our 12 year anniversary! We have been giving trans and male sex workers the opportunity to start a new life whether that is through education, healthcare, counseling, and/or vocational skills training. To celebrate this BIG milestone, our […]
April Part 2: We definitely felt the tension of wanting to respond to needs well, yet still often feeling like it’s not enough. With changes and updates sometimes multiple times a day, it was a challenge to try to keep […]
At the beginning of April, more closures went into effect, such as the public and national parks closing on the 2nd. Curfews were daily from 10pm to 4am. For our team, Chompuu & Nan were able to return to work […]
This will not be an easy thing to explain or read, but my friend Kay, a Thai Founder for another non-profit in the city wrote, “please pray for The THAI people at this time of Covid 19. The suicide rate […]
MARCH: Our team started discussing news, fears, safety issues, checking individual temps daily, how to be available to students and bar-workers… team wanted to keep working but there were so many unknowns as to how best to do this. We […]
IN FEB: One staff returned from her six-month YWAM school and started helping in the bakery. Another new ladyboy joined our program Feb. 6th named “Hiw.” Probably 80% of Bangkok were wearing masks daily; sanitizer was available at shop entrances, […]
It feels like the entire world has been flipped upside down and it’s been steadily happening since early Jan (2020) for us. Here’s a few highlights: People in Bangkok seemed informed about coronavirus but the pollution seemed more dangerous at […]
Ten years ago. A Christian journalist interviewed me before I returned to Thailand. I asked her to not use certain terminology in her article that could flag unwanted attention. She didn’t understand the risks and wrote a nice piece for […]
It was a beautiful three days to withdraw from crazy Bangkok; being able to focus on rest and time together as a team. It was pivotal too, since about half of our team has changed this past year. Only four […]
2016 was a beautiful, yet stretching year for us here! It was definitely a year of change; sometimes things happening way too fast, while other events did not occur at the time or way we had hoped. I’m sure you […]