Train 7,000 Disadvantaged Girls in Rural Thailand

Dear friends and supporters,

This will be our last update on the project as it we have completed all the milestones we set out to achieve. Do join our mailing list to stay in touch.

We like to also draw your attention to an article written by Ruth Carr, who spent a full day with us in the province to gather information about our training workshop. You can read it here: https://www.newsdeeply.com We hope you'll enjoy reading the article.

Over the duration of the project, you helped us raise over $106,052 – that’s an amazing outcome. Thank you again! To recap, we set up this project in response to a very clear need: 

• A common solution often proposed to the poverty faced in rural villages across Thailand is to send their children to the city to make money to send home.
• While the poverty is challenging enough, the male-oriented culture has created an even more unfortunate fate for the women. Often, it is the young female who rescues her family, while men tend to be freer to live their lives.
• There is always at least one person in every family, who knows intuitively from an early age that she will become responsible for improving the whole family’s life, while the rest of the family lives from her earnings.
• Inevitably, she will end up in Bangkok, with the weight of her family's expectations upon her - but without the skills to secure anything other than the low paid and dangerous jobs, which no one else will take.
• We work with these young girls before they move to the city, and then direct them to our courses aimed at women in Bangkok if and when they migrate.

That need still remains. But, since we began, our training for disadvantaged girls in rural Thailand has moved from strength to strength. We are in a better position than ever to meet the needs of these girls.

• We reach thousands of girls each year with life-saving guidance, inspiration, real-life advice from people who have been there, kindness and support.
• We adapt our programs regularly to meet the changing needs of our target group.
• As a result, we are beginning to tackle difficult issues such as self-esteem, social media and instant messaging, as well as our usual topics of career development, self-defense, and moving to the city.
• In just the last few months, we have also launched a version of our innovative new training course, Better Me, for girls in the area.

We will keep working on our mission every day, because there are thousands more girls to reach across the region. We hope you will continue to join us on our journey. Please visit our new project to make a donation.

If not, please consider joining our mailing list, so that you can stay in touch with us once we have closed this campaign down: http://pratthanadee.org/join-the-mailing-list/

Team Pratthanadee