By Chris Morgan | Resource Mobilization Manager
Dear Friend,
We at The Freedom Story are grateful for your continued support of our work to prevent trafficking in Northern Thailand. We’d like to highlight how your generosity has supported our Sustainable Livelihoods Program, which identifies at-risk families to train in micro-business skills, knowledge of sustainable agricultural production, and supplementing household income. Through this growth in their entrepreneurial capacity, families are better able to keep their children in school and promoting their resilience against the lure of traffickers. This has the potential for an inter-generational impact, providing freedom and choice for generations to come.
We are collaborating with Ton Cedar, a local NGO focused on assisting local entrepreneurs, in an initiative that collects products from local farmers in a bi-weekly basket shipped directly to customers across Chiang Rai. The products primarily consist of various vegetables, homemade bread, honey, and eggs.
With the help of our training sessions and workshops, five of our scholarship families are raising chickens and growing vegetables to contribute to Ton Cedar’s baskets. The initiative has been so successful that two new scholarship families have been recruited to meet the growing demand.
The families that are in this program have increased their monthly income by an average of 280 baht ($8.48), which is a 14% overall income increase. Alongside our scholarship program, this income helps cover the costs of school or living expenses. Our hope is that when at-risk families develop viable options to support themselves locally, they become less susceptible to the fraudulent claims and enticing lures of traffickers seeking to exploit their vulnerabilities.
This would not have been possible without the partnership from you, our supporters. Thank you for partnering with The Freedom Story in preventing child trafficking and exploitation in Northern Thailand.
In Hope,
The Freedom Story
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