Our Cause
We're raising money to train the front-line workers who fight child trafficking in Southeast Asia.
In all of the border towns of Southeast Asia, there are only 60 people working to prevent child trafficking and working with kids that have been rescued from traffickers. Although these people are working towards the same goal, there is no connection between them. They do not ever work with each other or get to hear what kinds of programs are working in other parts of the world. While the work they do is effective, there is an education program that is just starting up called San Jai (Of One Heart).
The San Jai program will hold four two-day workshops over the next two years that will educate these workers on how to do their jobs more effectively. It will provide more of the educational booklets (Good Boy/Good Girl) that are used in Cambodia, translated into their native languages. They will be able to duplicate methods of trafficking prevention that have been working in other countries, and equip these workers with more tools and knowledge on how to effectively help trafficked children, especially those that have been severely sexually abused.
World Concern estimates that for each worker the San Jai network educates, a hundred children will be saved from being trafficked. They also hope to recruit more people into the program, that people will step up to help in their own communities.
Our goal for Pictures For a Purpose is to fund most of the first workshop coming up in the fall of 2008. Your sitting fee goes directly towards this goal, as do all proceeds from print sales.