Thailand’s large-scale sex industry puts innocent children in danger. Their lives are impacted on every level by child pornography, abuse and HIV/AIDS. The number of affected and needy children continues to grow due to refugees fleeing from poverty and social unrest in the bordering countries of Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.

Our Thailand Director, Sammy, leads a Learning Center for Burmese refugees who have no status and little belongings in Thailand. At the Learning Center, the refugee children are enrolled in a Christian school and are provided with after-school tutoring, routine medical check-ups and vocational support. After the program, jobs will be created at fish hatcheries and some will study at university or medical school.

God's provision for a family

On a foggy day in the mountains of Huay Malai, Thailand twenty-four VisionTrust students were routinely traveling the fifteen miles to school in their “bus” - a pickup truck. Out of nowhere the bus driver saw a faint object. A car without its headlights on was headed straight toward their truck. The bus driver quickly swerved, barely avoiding a collision. The truck was unharmed, but its passengers were not.

The quick swerve caused John, one of the students, to fly out of the vehicle. He was rushed to a hospital several hours away where they determined that his spleen had ruptured. Praise the Lord, John underwent surgery and has recovered completely.

God had a plan for this lively, athletic, and humble boy – a plan worthy of surviving this terrible fall. John’s parents are now both Christians who work hard and try to provide for their children, but still struggle in the poverty-stricken country.

John is still in school and in the future he plans to become a doctor so he can help his people. In one of John’s letters to his sponsor he said, “I would like to thank God that He blesses me through you.” From John and all of us at VisionTrust, thank you for making stories like this one possible.