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The Foundation For Women, an NGO founded in 1984, provides assistance to both foreign and Thai women based in Bangkok. FFW began as an information center to assist Thai women going abroad and soon expanded to include a shelter for victims of domestic abuse and an education project focusing on child prostitution. Today, FFW runs a comprehensive anti-trafficking program as well, which offers services ranging from community awareness to individual counseling. The women they help come to them through a hotline or go to shelters where they are cared for while they wait to be returned to their home country. The FFW adopts a holistic solution to each case with not just those hotlines but workers in hospitals, social workers to meet with the individuals, and psychiatric treatment for mental rehabilitation. In total, the work they do is multi-faceted and very open to any woman in need of help.

The Center for the Protection of Children's Rights (CPCR) was established in 1982 to assist children who had been neglected, abandoned, physically abused or exploited through child labor. CPCR investigates cases of suspected abuse and works with the families to determine if the parents are capable of raising their child without fear of future abuse or if the child will need to be removed from an irrecoverable environment. In the latter case, the CPCR has shelters of differing agendas to house a child while they procure a living situation for him/her. In addition to working on individual cases in Thailand, CPCR plays an active role in amending and creating laws that will halt the proliferation of human trafficking. With CPCR’s aid, all of SE Asia is currently coordinating to produce a strong, unified front against the child labor, trafficking, and exploitation. CPCR works extensively with Thailand’s Ministry of Social Development and Human Security and many international organizations to address children’s issues. Special thanks to Wassana Kaonoparat, who took time to speak with Jacob and Raphael about CPCR and its anti-trafficking efforts.

Asia Regional Cooperation to Prevent People Trafficking (ARCPPT) is a project funded by the Australian Government. Its goal is to contribute to the prevention of people trafficking in South East Asia. The Project is working in four countries: Thailand, Lao PDR, Myanmar (Burma) and Cambodia. The main focus of Project activities in on strengthening the criminal justice process to deal effectively with the crime of trafficking. To this end, the Project is seeking to build up national structures and capacities as well as to improve coordination and cooperation across borders and regionally.

Agir por les Femmes en Situation Precaire (Acting for Women in Distressing Situations) AFESIP is a non-governmental, non-partisan, and non-religious organization established at the grass-root level in Cambodia in 1996. AFESIP combats trafficking of women and girls for the sex industry through a victim-centered rehabilitation program that includes holistic care and teaching occupational skills. AFESIP has a presence in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam and is begining to become active in Loas, where the TFE riders met with a representative.

Street Friends was started in 1994 by a group of expats who realized the need for a children's support center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Originally sustained by personal funding, Street Friends now provides extensive and comprehensive services to an average of 1,600 children per day thanks to a network of expatriate advisors, donors and friends. The organization aims to support the basic rights of children by offering meals, shelter, and medical care as well as emphasizing education and family support.

Womyn's Agenda for Change (WAC) focuses on the exploitation of women in Cambodia. WAC addresses the sex trade as well as garment workers' rights and the debt cycle that perpetuates poverty in rural communities.

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