Sending Aid for Children in Thailand
Union Rescue Mission, in partnership with Giving Children Hope (www.gchope.org), Not For Sale Campaign, and the Call + Response documentary, will be sending a shipment of medical supplies for a new clinic in Thailand that will serve a local orphanage that helps save and house children who were once captive as slaves.
The majority of children living at the orphanage have been rescued from human trafficking taking place across the Thai-Myanmar border. Some of the children have been forced to work as sex slaves or laborers, while others have lived on the streets begging for food and money to meet the demands of drug-addicted parents. Kru Nam, the director of the orphanage, tries to take in any child that she hears is in danger, and ever has occasionally purchases children from their parents to percent them from being sold into sex clubs.
Because of Kru Nam’s tireless efforts, the number of children at the site has grown rapidly, leaving the orphanage short on both space and necessary medical needs. Many of the children were trafficked into Thailand from Myanmar, which makes them illegal aliens in Thailand and ineligible for the free health care normally provided by the Thai government.
The clinic on-site would help serve all of the children, and will treat such diseases as parasitic and skin infections, upper respirtory infections, tuberculosis and malaria. The clinic will also help with psychological trauma from previous physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse, and HIV testing.
