TFS’s research and experience shows that poverty is thedriver of much vulnerability to trafficking. Through this, they provideresources and trainings on soft business skills, financial literacy, andincome-generation activities to our scholarship students and their families. TFScurrently partner with 28 at-risk families to sustainably increase householdincome. These families engage in diverse income-generating activities,including 22 who cultivate vegetables for additional income, 3 involved in cornharvesting and animal sales, 2 families specializing in selling embroiderycrafts, and 1 family sells grilled chicken. By providing sources of sustainableincome, these families are transformed, gaining the greater ability to keeptheir students in school and decreasing the lure of traffickers.
The Sunline Foundation is supporting the sustainability programthat will enable them to expand the market for 7 families, for a total of 35at-risk families in Chiang Rai. In addition, the funding will allow TFS to expandtheir Financial Management trainings and skill development to 60 families inour communities.
Increased income and reduced risk of children falling victim of human trafficking.
