Justice and Human Rights Thailand Project #49391

Helping Single Thai Mothers Keep Their Babies

by Family Connection Foundation

Helping Single Thai Mothers Keep Their Babies

Project Report | Jan 11, 2023
New Beginnings

By Susan Staples | Women's trainer and reporting coordinator

Eileen's daughter

Eileen came back to Home of the Swallow September 7th after leaving suddenly back in April. She says that since she’s come back she feels much better emotionally. She feels more at peace and is able to concentrate without stressing about the difficult things she went through during the time she was away from HOS.

Eileen's goal right now is to stay at Home of the Swallow until she can find a job that will enable her to support herself and her 1 year old daughter. She's looking for housecleanig jobs as this will enable her to not only earn enough money to live on, but is also something that she's capable of doing. We are in the process of helping her find a job.

Elieen says “Since I’ve been back at HOS, I feel like I’ve been able to accept the circumstances in my life. I know that I needed to get out of the unsafe place I was at. Now that I’m back here, I feel more at peace.” She’s also learning how to forgive her husband for multiple past hurts. No matter what he’s done, she knows that she needs to forgive him. It’s a process. She’s started that process, but she knows that she still has a ways to go.

She continues “Sometimes I think that I want to go out and do this or that, and I want the freedom to do whatever I want to do,but then I think about my daughter." She knows that she needs to stay on the path she's on because it’s the right path for both her and her daughter. God always gives her wisdom, she says.

We're thankful that we can help women like Eileen who have no where else to go. She admits that she's made some bad desicions, but she's working hard to make a new life for herself and her daughter.

Eileen and her daughter

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Sep 14, 2022
Transformations

By Susan Staples | Women's trainer and reporting coordinator

Transformation is an amazing thing! Not only does it take time and patience, but there are many hiccups along the way. As is true for all of us on this transformation process, we take a step forward and then a few backward. We have all experienced this in our lives. The women at Home of the Swallow are no different. Praise God that He doesn't give up on any of us and that the good work He has started in us He will carry onto completion. Since God is still working on all of us, please don't give up praying for the women at Home of the Swallow.

Masha just arrived at HOS this last April. She was referred to us by a social worker. Marsha and her daughter needed a safe place to stay and to heal from past abuse. Before coming to HOS, Marsha didn’t like to get dressed up and had no goals in life. She was very quiet and didn’t really want to talk to anyone. Marsha is now willing to talk more, dresses appropriately for different occasions, smiles more, and has some goals that she’d like to achieve.

Marsha says that since coming to HOS she feels like everyone here is family. Marsha says “When I came here, my life wasn’t very good. Many bad things have happened to me, and I didn’t grow up in a warm household at all.” About her life at the time she came into HOS, Marsha says, “I’m not impressed with myself at all. I can’t really do a whole lot of things. I feel depressed, and I want to sleep all of the time. I have no energy.” Due to some very deep emotional pain and some abuse that has happened to her, Marsh is dealing with depression.

About the time that Marsha came here, we were doing a training at HOS about understanding your worth and value. There are many good things about being a woman and we can develop the talents that we have in order to be successful in our lives. We asked each of the women to make both short term and long term goals. Some of the women had never thought about setting goals in their lives like this before. After doing this exercise, Marsha now has a newfound hope and desire to learn an occupation and find a way to support herself and her daughter.

While she’s here at HOS, Marsha would like to learn an occupation, because right now she has no way of supporting herself and her daughter. Her goal right now is to learn how to make and decorate cakes. In the future she would like to open a bakery.

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May 24, 2022
Helping in Transition

By Andria Jasper | Media Coordinator

Mary came to Home of the Swallow just for a short season, when she was at the end of her means to support her and her son. She was glad to have had a place to stay here at Home of the Swallow over the last few months, as she didn’t have anywhere else to go. Her short-term goal was to make money so she could get a Thai ID card. Then she would be able to rent a house and get a job. She was finally able to get her Thai ID card after coming to live at Home of the Swallow. The cost was higher than she could afford, which has been a hindrance to getting it in the past. So being able to live at Home of the Swallow and work and save money for this made a huge difference.

Mary wants her son to be able to study and get a high education. She says “I want my son to learn important things and not do bad things as I’ve done. Even though his father isn’t around, I want him to have a good life.” She wants to be able to work for herself in the future, and being here has given her motivation to work towards that. She has another daughter that lives with her father, because Mary is just barely making it now, and is not able to take care of both of her children. She hopes that soon she will be able to bring her daughter to live with her, once she has a more stable income and can support two children well.

Mary says that she has been happy to be at Home of the Swallow for this season, but she feels that it’s time to leave and try to make it on her own. She says “I learned a lot of things here, specifically how to concentrate better, how to better get along with others, and how my words affect other people. The house mother helped me a lot, encouraged me, and has been there for me.” She has decided to move out to follow her dream to be able to take care of herself. She will be working in an orchard, planting, sweeping, watering, etc. It’s not difficult work. and it’s something that she likes and will be good at. She believes this is a job that is a perfect fit for her because she’s been waiting for an opportunity like this for a while.

Every woman comes to Home of the Swallow for a different reason but all ultimately have the desire to be able to care for and support their family. Some come through our program for a season to get on their feet again as Mary did, and we are thankful to have been able to help her and her son in her season of need!

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