Love Can’t Be Baht has focused on the idea of rescuing and defending victims of human trafficking since our inception in July of 2008. We have been able to do some truly amazing things because of you, our supporters, so thanks for donating, buying a shirt, telling people, etc. It means the world to us and everything that you’ve done to support us has been energy, time and money that has gone through us to help these people.

Moving forward, we had the opportunity to be in Cambodia for a few weeks during the month of July this year, it was such an amazing experience to meet the people that are doing such great work over there. Our team saw a lot of really sad things, things that made you mad, that upset you but we also had the opportunity to see some really amazing things to. Signs of hope that made you feel like everything was going to be ok for these people. There are many different angles that our team is going to share with you about our trip to Cambodia, today, I want to share with you the idea of trafficking prevention and what is being done to help keep these kids out of the hands of traffickers.

In one of the cities that we had a chance to visit, we’ll leave it unnamed for security reasons; our team had the chance to visit a family that is doing something to prevent trafficking. This family lives in a very impoverished area of town but has a great house with lots of land and resources. With this, this family started a ministry called “Kid’s Club” (KC). KC is a place where children from all over the neighborhood can come and hang out every day. They will have a safe place to be while they’re parents are away during the day, the will be educated with a Christian influence while there and will also be able to take some rice home every month to help feed their family.

This ministry is so important because many of these kids have siblings that have been sold into trafficking by their parents. Their parents may have five or six children but not be able to feed and care for all of them but if they sell one child, they may be able to feed and care for all of their children then. So in an attempt to be able to survive more comfortably they sell a child.

With the creation of KC, local children now have a place to go and learn and a way to provide food for the family, which is an incentive for parents to keep their kids around. KC currently serves upwards of 400 children and will never turn a child away. They recently purchased land behind their house that will be the site of a school and office space so KC may continue to expand and serve their local community.

These children blew me away as I got the chance to hang out with them for a few days. They live in the poorest of poor places. They have little to eat, very few clothes, hardly any of them have shoes or many teeth for that matter and even though we had never met each other and don’t speak the same language, they found a way to show me unconditional love and to me, that’s pretty cool. Below are a few pictures from the children at KC, please pray for them and for this ministry. Also, stay on the lookout for LCBB to launch some ways to help KC with their new school and other ventures slated for the near future.

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