A Week In Bangkok
Team Relentless makes regular trips to Bangkok for our work. During these trips we work with a number of different organizations in a variety of different roles. All our partner organizations are working at some intersection of abuse, exploitation, and trafficking. Some are doing outreach to homeless kids. One group works with transgender women. Another organization
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Transformational Care
Alicia, 22 years old, recently returned to live in her home village in rural Thailand, reunited with her two children and her mother, who had been looking after her children these past “how many?” years. She’s struggling to remember some of the good things she was taught, but life is so different here in the
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Strengthening Your Services
The survivors of abuse and exploitation who receive services from assistance programs (APs) are precious and we all want to see their transformation to being thriving and independent people. This is a long process, involving people across multiple disciplines who journey with them short or long term. But too often we forget how precious our caregivers are as well. Just how many qualified, compassionate
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The Rohingya are still adrift
Many of you have at least heard of the Rohingya, or at least have heard about the refugee crisis in SE Asia. The story broke wide open when several mass graves of migrants were discovered in Thailand as well as Malaysia. Here is a brief update of what’s current as well as a little background to
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“Do you really love us?”
“Do you really love us?” This was a question directly put to me by a young woman in recovery from sex trafficking. I had the privilege of staying in an aftercare shelter for trafficked women in Bucharest, Romania. Working with people who have been trafficking and chronically abused and exploited is not for the faint
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Equipping Frontline Workers
This post will be a re-post from the Chab Dai blog about a training that I did in Phnom Penh a couple weeks ago. The one-day workshop, Essential Health Care Components of an Assistance Program”, was open to all Chab Dai members. Please click here for a report on that workshop. On 7 April, I
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Relentless is Growing!
New Office and New Volunteers for Relentless! Relentless has been experiencing a lot of growth so far in 2015! We began renting a new office space in November. The office is a house that is fully outfitted to host our volunteers. It has been great having a larger office as we have started to host meetings and use the workspace to accommodate our growing team. Meet Our New Volunteers!
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Statistics and Reporting: It’s hard but we can do better
I’ve heard many of you ask me questions such as, “What are the real numbers of trafficked people? Is the problem growing? Are we making any difference? Why do some papers report 27 million, 35 million, or 21 million people in slavery today?” Furthermore, you’ll hear statistics that sex trafficking accounts for most of the
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Team Relentless in Chiang Rai
Team Relentless just returned from a quick trip to Chiang Rai where we held a clinic on Friday afternoon/evening, and then did a couple of health workshops on Saturday morning. Our patients included staff of our partner organization, children of their staff, boys residing in an aftercare home, children of the owner of a neighboring bar, children
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Trauma and Healing
A post by Prae Phonboon I believe that everyone has their own story and each story is different, which is good and bad. If the stories are good, we all want to keep them as good memories, but what about those bad ones? Bad stories might leave you with wounds in your heart and they
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