Hi, I'm Josephine. I have been in Thailand now for 5 years. I came in 2010 as a volunteer to a children's home in the rural province of Northern Thailand. While I was serving there, I had a chance to travel to many other provinces and visited numerous homes for the poor and orphaned children.I cringed to see poverty and hunger especially children exploited by organized gangs to beg or work in forced labor. I see young girls and boys below the age of 12 exploited in the sex trade. All this exploitation and greed appaled me. 

 I hear of young girls being sexually abused by their step fathers and children denied of education and heath care, treated like slaves just because they are poor. I have seen oppresion of young girls and boys close up,in the form of violence, drugs,forced marriages, and sexual exploitation and other injustice.

I am appalled by the actrocities and I have  decided to dedicate my life to this cause.But the problem is way too big for me to confront alone.I need the help of hundreds of people to resolve or help these critical humn rights crisis of the century in Thailand. 

I don't claim that a gift or donation to Kingdom Life Ministry will eradicate all the problems, but I believe we can start by doing what is possible, and suddenly we can do the impossible.

I have set a goal to raise $320,000 to built long term community homes and an aquaponic farm to feed and sustain the community. We also provide education and vocational training. We have started this project on a shoe string budget. 

Please join me to put a stop to all the horrific atrocities these childen face daily. No amount is too small. What if the dollar you give is able to multiply and create sustainable change? Will you do it?

Thank you, Josephine Leong Kan 

I  The Cause

There are approximately 400,000 street children in Thailand with no access to education, safe shelter and food. Two children per minute are trafficked for sexual exploitation daily. A child is sold for only $16, and 80% of Thailand's prostitutes are under the age of 16. Poverty in Thailand is primarily a rural phenomenan with over 80% of the country's 7.8 million poor! Street children are left out of national reports on child labor issues.

Thailand is known as the world tourist destination, but it is also known as the sex capital of Asia. It is also a source,transit and destination country for women and children for the purpose of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation.

In the rural provinces of Thailand, many families are so poor that instead of  sending their children to school they are sent to cities to look for work. Often these little ones are trick into forced prostitution by middleman pretending to offer jobs to them.Some are in involuntary servitude or debt bondage.

There are hundreds of homeless street children on the streets of Thailand. Most of them are between the age of 6-12 years .Some are abandoned, some are orphaned.Majority of them are from single parents, left to fend for themselves while their father or mother are facing sentence in jail.These children live under bridges and park,living off the streets scavenging for food.They are the most vulnerable to trafficking, the black market and exploitation.Tthey are often are exploited by organized gangs as beggars or some form of labor. They are forced to turn over their earnings to the gang and were paid less than $1 per day. Working conditions are poor, leaving them exposed to the elements for long periods of time and open to further exploitation. There are children imprisoned in sex trafficking with no more tears to cry!

Can you feel them? Broken hearts, broken dreams, broken hopes and broken lives. Perhaps we should take some time to weep with them. A tearless generation robbed of emotions! You must visit them to hear their cry.Listen to their cry for help. They need us now,

Let us partner together to give them a" hope and a future". Thank you.