Imreadyforchange’s Weblog

With the colder weather arriving, my mind has turned off Thanksgiving  and has turned to Christmas. Christmas is my favourite season of the year. I always try to buy gifts for my family and friends that has some sort of meaning. Whether it is an inside joke, remembering a few months back that they had said, “Oh, I want this!” or a handcrafted gift, the most important thing about gifts to others is that it communicates “I love you and I really thought about you when I made/bought this present.”

This year I wanted to do some a little out of the box. I want to give – not only to the person I love, but also to the cause of freeing women/children whom are caught in/trafficked into the sex-trade industry.

I came across this organization called Nightlight Design. It is a Christian ministry in urban Bangkok that reaches out to women and children exploited in the city’s sex bars. It aims to intervene when children are solicited for sex trafficking and to provide women with job training and employment through a self-sustaining business of making jewelery.

The money that is made from the selling of the jewelery items go toward paying salaries and benefits of the women whom work at this organization, purchasing the raw materials, rent of the workspace, and the staff salaries.

So, this year, I thought I would purchase jewelery pieces for the ones I love and to also support a worthy cause.

Check out www.nightlightbangkok.com for more information or to purchase jewelery items.