The beautiful jewelry of Nightlight tells stories of lives rebuilt and hope restored. Nightlight was launched to provide a sustainable path out of poverty and sexual abuse for Bangkok’s young women. They work in the heart of the Nana/Sukhumvit area, which is rife with sexual abuse, trafficking, and extreme poverty.
After observing the situation around them, they set a goal to combat the sexual exploitation of Women and Children (Thai and Foreign) in the Nana/Sukhumvit area.
Through life-on-life ministry, NightLight’s goal is to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of women in prostitution, their children, and those children brought illegally in Thailand to financially support their families by selling items in the bars and often through sexual exploitation. These goals will be met through building relationships with women and children who work in the sex trade industry along the Nana/Sukhumvit area and by providing a center that offers emergency aid, educational and employment opportunity, emergency child-care, language tutoring, literacy training, and biblical teaching and healing for their community.
Nightlight’s work with these women falls into three basic categories:
1. Economic/Educational Opportunities: Providing alternatives through job training and education.
2. Lifeskills training: To provide opportunities to train women and children on the risks of working in the sex trade and how to access the help they may need.
3. Public Awareness and Involvement: To educate the public, Thai and foreign (religious and non-religious), of the physical, psychological, legal and economic consequences of prostitution and trafficking and to encourage their involvement in advocacy and follow-up care of the women and children.
Trade as one is proud to partner with Nightlight and to offer these brave women a chance to connect with women in America who would love nothing more than for their jewelry to be an expression of freedom and justice.
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