…this is part 2 of Thailand and is all about human trafficking and prostitution in Thailand. For those that don’t know what human trafficking is I greatly encourage you to find out and research. Prior to The World Race, I was completely oblivious and just reading about it and people’s stories has broken my heart many a times. God has placed a spot for these people that I haven’t even met yet in my heart but I know we will bring his kingdom to them. So here’s part 2 and my 2 cents in the end…
Thailand: Pt. 2
Trafficking in human beings means “All acts and attempted acts involved in the recruitment, transportation within or across borders, purchase, sale, transfer, receipt or harbouring of a person involving the use of deception, coercion (including the use or threat of force of the abuse of authority) or debt bondage for the purpose of placing or holding such person, whether for pay or not, in involuntary servitude (domestic, sexual or reproductive) in forced or bonded labor, or in slavery-like conditions, in a community other than the one in which such person lived at the time of the original deception, coercion, or debt bondage.‘Thai‘ in the Thai language means ‘freedom’. So, Thailand means “land of freedom” or “land of the free”… yet the estimated number of sex workers vary from 30,000 to more than a million in Thailand alone.
Prostitution is technically illegal in Thailand, but the law is very rarely enforced.
Trafficking is a roughly a $12 billion industry – a bigger cash earner than the country’s drug trade in Thailand, according to the International Labor Organization.
Patpong, Bangkok’s red-light district, consists of only two streets of clubs and go-go bars, plus nearby side streets, and a market for rip-off fakes.
Child prostitution can begin as young as 10 – some are born into the lifestyle and start even earlier.
Sometimes the women keep only 1/3 of the money they earn and send most of it back to their families. A working girl can earn 1500-3000 Baht per trick, while majority of it will go toward her pimp.
“Understand: These people almost always trusted their agent, and were simply betrayed. Commonly, they are offered jobs in factories, restaurants or households as maids, but instead wind up locked inside a facility which they cannot escape from, in either a sweatshop factory at much lower wages than promised, or else forced prostitution in various ways. The worst ways are whereby they are chained to a bed and forced to service many customers per day, with more than 10 per day not uncommon, and the pimps keep most of the money.”
A guy wrote an article about human trafficking and said that those in prostitution are not victims,“You can’t save people from themselves, and many people aren’t worth the time and effort, relative to other needs.”
That comment made me vomit. literally. Who says things like that? Are some people really so selfish and so absorbed with themselves that they don’t know all life and everyone is precious? God created everyone so magnificently beautiful. I am so angry and my heart breaks for these victims of human trafficking. My heart breaks for the women that think that this is the only way for a life. One woman in an article said that never once did any of her customers try to have a conversation with her and it was all about ‘business.” I pray for the people that see these women only as objects for their temporary pleasure that they discover and are overwhelmed with God’s love. I pray for these victims that are sacrificing themselves in hopes that their family will have a better life. I pray that we can show them real love. There were other stories about women who did this to fall in love with a tourist and hoped to be swept away by promises of love only for the so called man to go back to his life before without her. I pray that we can show them God’s unconditional love and let them know how worthy and how beautiful they are. I pray that they fall in love with God and know that his promises aren’t empty like the men they’ve met and realize that God’s promises of life and love will always remain.
There’s just so much hurt, pain and broken hearts. I cant wait for us to speak and bring hope and truth into their lives and help them restore their self worth. We are being called to help these victims and show them God’s love through our relationships with them. We will help them stand for the Lord and dance in his glory! So yes, Thailand might be the ‘Land of Smiles’ but God will break those chains of bondage and Thailand WILL LIVE up to it’s name, Land of the Free.
… i invite you to please partner with me in this ministry so I can be the hands and feet of our beautiful Jesus! I am still in need of $8,000 to be fully funded and any amount is greatly appreciated. love you. 🙂
