Nightlight International

Programs: Nightlight bangkok builds trusting relationships with individuals in the sex industry, offering alternatives and resources. Our programs provide assistance and intervention to both national and international victims of trafficking and prostitution, including emergency shelter, rehabilitation/counseling, child-care, life skills courses, employment and job training, leadership development, and support for continuing education. In fy 16/17, our bangkok program employed and offered restorative services to 40 women, provided childcare for 35 children, reached out to over 2,700 women in the industry, assisted 70 trafficked women and their 14 children, and provided medical services to 70 women.

nightlight missouri reaches women wherever they're working and strives to connect with each one individually, as a woman who is unique & worthy of love. Our missouri team builds client-focused plans to journey with each survivor toward a greater degree of health in multiple facets of their lives. Our missouri program also fosters awareness on the issue of sexual exploitation through community events and collaboration with other local organizations. In fy 16/17, our missouri program reached out to more than 1300 woman in the sex industry, served over 50 victims of trafficking and exploitation in our restoration program, and shared about the issues of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation with over 5,000 individuals in our community.

nightlight design is a registered thai business that offers dignifying employment and personal development opportunities to women who have come out of prostitution or trafficking in thailand, or who have been at risk of prostitution or trafficking. Nightlight design products include handcrafted jewelry and ornaments, t-shirts, apparel, and more. Our nightlight design program in the us serves as the distribution arm for nightlight design, and helped support the employment of 40 women in bangkok, thailand.

general programs including nightlight atlanta - nightlight international's administrative operations support the anti-trafficking programs being carried out at each nightlight location. Wherever possible, nightlight seeks to streamline and coordinate administrative efforts in order to minimize overhead and maximize each location's impact. In addition, nightlight international's administrative operations seek to continually unify and engage all nightlight locations in carrying out nightlight's unique mission and vision. Nightlight atlanta - ministers weekly on friday nights and outreaches to people working in the sex industry of atlanta. Kids' club is for at-risk kids in the neighborhood on thursday nights. We partnered with a local church to take the children in the neighborhood to church activities on sunday mornings. Counseling is offered to individuals in the sex industry out of the outreach center, the staff spoke at numerous events, spearheading official standards of care for survivors among our peer organization.