Help 5,000 Thai Girls Protect Themselves

Dear Wonderful Supporter,

Happy Songkran Festival! (The Traditional Thai New Year)

The purpose of this newsletter is to update subscribers on our Claim Your Rights Program. To date, we have raised a mere $310, far from our goal of $26,000 for the year. The Foundation would like to ask for your support of this program. Three hundred and ten dollars will only run only 2 workshops for 80 girls, while more than 1,000 girls still critically lack awareness regarding the matters covered in the workshops. Our goal is to train 5,000 underprivileged girls this year alone. You can help bring us closer to this goal and make a real difference in the lives of these young women by donating now!

In our Claim Your Rights workshops, we provide them with the information and skills they need to recognize and report crimes against them, avoid dangerous situations, and respond sensibly in times of threat. The workshop also covers the following:

• Awareness of and Prevention of Danger: Raising awareness of a range of risks (including relationships, harassment, financial dependency, pregnancy, and online grooming), as well as teaching tactics for avoiding dangers and ways to deal with incidents that may arise.
• Basic Self-Defense: Training in basic moves, such as wrist grabs, lapel grabs, and protection on the ground.
• Women’s Laws and Rights: Raising awareness of the laws relevant to women, such as procedure in reporting domestic violence or assault to the police. We also provide resources and further support when it is needed.

Last year our workshops reached over 2,958 girls from Ubon Ratchathani and its surrounding provinces. If you are looking to make an impact on the lives of others this year, we ask that you please keep us in mind. If you haven't donated yet but have been thinking of supporting impactful work, donate now! We hope to have raised enough money to run more workshops by the time schools reopen following the summer holiday.

With Gratitude,

Sarochinee