Housing for Women leaving the Sex Industry

Hello everybody!

Thank you very much for your generous support of our project in the last months. Today I would like to give you a short update about has been happening. In May we started our 20th Tamar Vocational and Life Training and six women joined this program. They left a life in the brothels of Pattaya behind and moved into the housing that we provide for them. All except one of the women have children, but only one brought her child with her. This child is now also staying in our Nursery during the day, when the mother has the training program.

It is so crucial to be able to offer these women safe housing and we are very happy that through your help we can provide this to them. The women are staying in two houses, where each of them has their own room and they share bathroom, kitchen and living room.

During the training the women are learning different skills in baking, cooking, hair dressing, sewing and card making, and they also get a lot of counseling and other help. Last week the topic of the training was about forgiveness - very hard topic for these women as most of them had very abusive childhoods. We are now already in the 8th week of the Training program and we are looking forward to continuing to see these women develop further.

Thank you for making our work possible and for all your support!

Daniel Vaupel

Director Tamar Center