Our partnership with Home of New Beginnings

The sex industry in Thailand began catering to Western men during the Vietnam War, as the allied forces were given a week reprieve from war during each tour of duty. Today there are 30,000 young women available for sale in Pattaya on any given night in hundreds of bars, massage parlors, and brothels serving customers from all over the world. Poverty, gender inequality, corruption, domestic violence, lack of education, and a cultural expectation that daughters are the financial providers, perpetuate the cycle of the sex industry. 

We partnered with Home of New Beginnings to bring hope and healing to young women in Pattaya, Thailand who have been trafficked or exploited. Home of New Beginnings exists as both a rescue and prevention residential facility, providing housing, food, formal education, and vocational training such as sewing or cosmetology. Through our partnership, we finished furnishing the training floor and completed a sewing room as well as a multi-use space for counseling, homework and tutoring, and a small computer lab. By remodeling the multi-use room, Home of New Beginnings can offer two tracks toward a safe and sustainable future: vocational training and formal education. The space is now being regularly used by residents to further their educational, social, emotional, and spiritual growth.