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Thailand : Combating prostitution and child trafficking in north Thailand

For three years, VGCD (Volunteer Group for Child Development) has been running a project financed in 2007 by the Carrefour International Foundation to provide shelter, care, food, education and support for 50 children.

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In parallel to this support, Carrefour Voyage gave the organization €15 for every air ticket it sold to Thailand, and raised customer awareness of the issue.

At the beginning of 2008, the organization produced the first report on its activities:

In three years, it has succeeded in achieving the two main objectives it had set itself: to rehabilitate 118 children (as against the 50 initially planned in 2005) and to set up a structure recognized by the local authorities.

In fact, the NGO has been approved by the Thai government and receives public finance from UNICEF as well as private support, which ensures the ongoing viability of its activity.  Apart from its work rehabilitating and housing children, the organization has also developed skills partnerships that enable young children to attend Thai schools, to receive care and to acquire Thai nationality if they so wish, and has initiated campaigns to heighten national awareness of their plight.

Some figures:

- 3 residential homes have been built to accommodate 60 children

- 118 children are being protected against all forms of abuse at Mae Sai (on the Burmese border in the Golden Triangle): protection for street children and against drinking solvents, sexual abuse, forced or voluntary prostitution, forced begging, the sale or rent of children, traffic in organs and/or forced labour

- 46 are housed in VGCD homes

- 60 have been referred to partner structures: boarding schools, host families, centres for disabled people

- 18 have survived dangerous situations: sexual abuse, being forced to work in karaoke clubs, being sold, pushing drugs, being orphaned by AIDS, having parents in prison

- 13 have been reunited with their families, safe from domestic violence

- 105 children are receiving informal or formal education or job training

- 54 children are attending school

- 34 are at agricultural school

- 8 are receiving job training (massage, beauty therapy)

- 9 are in informal education

- receiving educational support and learning Thai

- 66 children have received medical care 

- ongoing checks for mental health or accidents

- regular psychological checks (children with mental or behavioural problems)

- 30 residents' permits have been acquired this year, and one child now has Thai nationality.

 



Help with reintegration
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  • 3

foster homes built

  • 118

children protected

  • 105

children have received an education or vocational training

  • 66

children have recieved medical care

  • Budget:

50 000 €

 

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