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Burma kids from poor Burmese villages, cross the Northern Thailand border each day to beg. Children are expected to provide for their family -they beg for a daily 'quota', mostly around 50 Thai Baht ($1.60 AUD).
Their food is whatever is left in the rubbish.
Many sleep on the streets for fear of abuse at home. Many do not have a home.
Whole families also sleep on the street.
Physical and sexual abuse is the norm, by both family members and locals.
Hunted for sex: But you can help
For those who want to make a buck out of selling a child into the wrong hands, these children are perfect – Mae Sai is crawling with them – vulnerable, poor, wanting something better.
Here’s how it goes :
A sweet-talking stranger will approach a child with the offer of a job such as waitressing. The child agrees, and they end up serving as a sexual slave.
They are used and abused, beaten and tortured, often ending up with HIV and severe trauma.
Read more : Inside the mind of a Sex Trafficker
The poverty and desperation of the people in Mae Sai drives parents or close family relations to sell their children to “agents”.
Since poverty is a key element in this whole process, we seek to get more and more children off the street and get them into school, where they can get an education, and secure a good job.
You can help by sponsoring a child to go to school.
Please write to us if you are willing to help these kids from the dangerous life they live.
The poverty and desperation of the people in Mae Sai drives parents or close family relations to sell their children to “agents”.
Since poverty is a key element in this whole process, we seek to get more and more children off the street and get them into school, where they can get an education, and secure a good job.
