HOME OF HOPE

Objective

“To provide a secure and conducive atmosphere for the girls who are rescued from trafficking or vulnerable to sexual abuse and to empower them through education and life skills to make them economically self-reliant.”

History

Home of Hope started in August 2002 with 5 girls in a rented facility. In 2011, we built and dedicated a larger facility for women and underage girls. Today, nearly 50 girls live in our residential facility.

Rationale

The mothers in the red-light areas who are already the victims of exploitation, abuse, toruture and rape are often unable to protect and provide to their children’s basic needs. The women either drug their children or leaver them unattended while attending to her customers. Consequently, children often go through traumatic experiences by perpetrators who wait for an opportune moment inside the brothels and when they loiter on the unsafe streets in the nights.

How does Home of Hope help these children?

1. Provides safety, security and meets their physical, mental, social, and emotional needs.

2. Helps the HIV positive children receive special care and medical attention.

3. Helps receive counselling, moral support and guidance by the trained and informed live-in-staff.

4. Helps children grow in sympathetic understanding of their mothers’ struggles as they interact with their mothers over the phone or during their monthly visits.

What We Do

This is a residential facility for women and underage girls who are rescued or at high-risk of sexual abuse. Some of our girls have already completed their education/skill training and are now employed. The Home provides:

• A secure living atmosphere

• Holistic care

• Education

• Life skills education

• Dance classes

• Karate classes

• Encouragement of hobbies in gardening, art, cooking