GLOBAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION FOR CRISES & EMERGENCIES

Provisions of educational scholarships, educational assistance, nutritional and wellness support helps to alleviate the burden on impoverished families living in Thailand. Access to family resources include transportation shuttle for children from school to the centers. Ensuring children attend school in order to improve literacy and thus reduce the vulnerability of illiteracy. The increased number of family resource center locations will be staffed with Thai staff which will increase the job market for the Thai area. Additionally, GRACE purchases supplies local to the center; thus, increasing the local economy. An increase to the local economy will result from renting facilities in the area near the residential area of beneficiaries. Funding through child and center sponsorship will increase awareness globally with individuals, clubs, organizations, and corporations. The increase awareness will help prevent the children and young adults from falling victim to trafficking.

Dedicated staff to the centers; licensed counselors and life coaches teaching adult enrichment programs; healthcare providers staffed in the facilities. Provision of English language studies taught by a native English speaker will enhance the global business language among this population. Native Thai staff providing direct assistance with homework, math skill enhancement, penmanship and reading enhancement.

New centers will be established as existing centers maintain full capacity for at least one year. The discovery of at-risk areas in surrounding areas and other cities/provinces affected by the labor and sex trafficking trade has been proposed to the GRACE administration; plans to expand to these areas within Thailand are being explored. The growth of such an organization requires the establishment of an official Thai foundation status in the county of Thailand which is in progress with the application process. The children living in such conditions are at an 80-85% risk of being trafficked in a country listed by the USA State Department as a Tier 2 status in regard to trafficking in persons report (June 2018); essentially, minimal measures for prevention and prosecution of such crimes have been established or enforced by the Thai government. The country is dependent upon organizations and foundations to cultivate the change.

The first center exceeded capacity in two year resulting in the establishment of a second facility. The staff grew from two to six. Families are successfully establishing homes out of the slum areas with the security of dependable jobs which is largely secondary to nutritional support and childcare provisions through Global Relief Association of Crises & Emergencies. The second center exceeded capacity within six weeks; servicing sixty-four children and families. The staff has grown with five Thai staff and four volunteers. A third center services forty-four children and their families. Upon receiving final approval of foundation status by the Thai government, GRACE will purchase land for the GRACE Center housing the family resource center, transitional home for single mothers obtaining vocational training, and foster care facilities. The GRACE campus will host administrative offices for Thailand, recreational facilities and fleet transportation services specific for GRACE programs.