Focus of FFI: We are focused on Phuket, Thailand, where we work in the whole community alongside our partners; influencing and changing macro and micro factors that will destroy the chain of oppression.
Partners: TITAC-Thailand Internet Crimes Against Children, ACT - Children's Advocacy Center of Thailand in Phuket Province , The HUG Project Thailand,  ACF – Asia Centre Foundation, U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons Office, Boom Mosby, YWAM, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, US State Department, Australian, UK and Canadian Thailand Embassies, Lift Foundation, Nightlight Bangkok, Liberty Asia, A21, Royal Thai Police

For every survivor of trafficking or anyone wanting to leave the sex trade, FFI is one of the primary providers of rehabilitation and hope for a better life through training. FFI does not discriminate against race, sex, or religion.
Prevention and Rehabilitation

• Community Outreach – provide sex education, anti-trafficking awareness to school children, sex trade workers, and trafficked persons, as well as the wider community, clients and local authorities.
• Child Advocacy Center facility will provide, security, counselling and schooling for rescued child victims.
• Safe houses for students and victims.
• Vocational Training (dignified job training for those adults choosing to leave or rescued from trafficking and/or sex trade)
• Baking Project 
• Hair and Beauty Project 
• ESL
• Budgeting & Life skills
• Repatriation of internationally trafficked individuals.

Intervention

• The FFI facility is where the Royal Thai Police interview victims, the start of building the rehabilitation process for the victim as well as bringing traffickers to meet justice.
• The base houses the social workers that literally walk into vulnerable and exploited communities in Phuket town and Patong, offering them rescue, hope and a new way to live their lives.

Introduction to FFI Projects

Phuket is one of the top sex tourism destinations in SE Asia while simultaneously having very, very few known NGO’s registered with the Thai government with permission to support anti trafficking efforts.  It was also recently identified, by Thai law enforcement, as a new focus area with the creation of a child advocacy center. Additionally, in general, there are a significant lack of non-governmental organizations in Phuket willing and able to support local law enforcement and government sectors in helping to combat trafficking in S. Thailand. FFI staff have been working in Phuket area since 2014 and in 2016 were approach by local law enforcement, and specifically the “Thailand Internet Crimes against Children” task force to partner with them in launching a child advocacy center in Phuket. Government officials also endorsed the creation of the FFI foundation which was finalized in 2017. FFI has specific government permission to work, support and create programing to support anti trafficking efforts with Thai law enforcement. Additionally, FFI is focusing on growing a public awareness and education campaign in Thai public schools to help provide sexual education, anti-trafficking awareness, after school support programs for children and families at risk and also to strengthen the connection between the public and local law enforcement. 

1. PREVENTION
1.1 Community Outreach Adults: FFI recognizes the importance of building trust and deepening relationships with the women who work in the red-light district of Phuket, something that in Thai culture usually requires a lot of time. This is especially true with Thai women working in the sex trade, who often have a significant amount of past trauma that makes it difficult for them to trust. For this reason, our outreach team is committed to developing relationships with individual women in order to become trusted people in their lives, which then gives us a platform on which to discuss our vocational training programs and, ultimately, to share the hope we have in Jesus. Separated below: Some of the ways FFI reaches out to women in the red-light district are 

• Weekly salon outreach, where we offer free hair and nails for women getting ready for work

• Weekly visits to the bars
• ESL classes

1.2 Safe House project FFI supports the Asia Center Foundation Children’s Safe House, which houses at-risk children who are from difficult or dangerous backgrounds. The house is run by caring Thai parents and provides a safe family environment and emotional support, while still allowing children the opportunity, where viable, to visit their nearby families in a way that is not threatening. There are a myriad of reasons why children are given the opportunity to enroll in the safe house project, such as exposure to alcoholism, physical abuse, unsafe home environment, or the nature of their parents’ occupation. Whatever their reason for coming to the safe house, we’re excited to see the children growing and thriving.

1.3 Community Development & Education: FFI values community-based approaches to programming that encourages and empowers locals to utilize their God-given strengths and abilities. If a local church or organization is already working in a certain area, we take their lead, learn from their experience, and come alongside them where beneficial. FFI is based out of Phuket specifically because there are no other similar organizations working in South Thailand, so the need is great, but where we can partner with and equip others, especially locals, we will. 
1.4 Community Outreach Children:  Because FFI recognizes the importance of developing local capacity, we are excited that one of our partners, YWAM Phang Nga Andaman, is working with Thai schools to offer training focused specifically on helping children understand sexual abuse, an issue not often discussed but one that is prevalent in society. By teaching children how to protect themselves and friends from exploitation, and challenging them to think about how certain decisions can impact their future, we hope to stop the cycle of abuse and prevent these children from ever entering the sex trade.

2. INTERVENTION
2.1 Child Advocacy Center (CAC):  In partnership with the Royal Thai Police, the Thai Internet Crimes Against Children task force, the FBI, and the U.S. Homeland Security, FFI runs the Child Advocacy Center Phuket, a safe and child-friendly place where young victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation are able to speak to a trained forensic interviewer about the trauma that the child has experienced or witnessed. During the child-friendly interview, investigative law enforcement and social workers supervise from a separate room to build case evidence against the offender(s) that can lead to arrest and prosecution. The children are referred to specialized counsellors and their families are given an advocate to help them through the legal process. When not being used for interview purposes, FFI also runs after school programs at the Center for children in the community. 
2.2 International Repatriation: Women from African and Eastern European countries who come to Thailand to work are often tricked into a life of sexual exploitation and simply cannot find a way to return to their home countries. With the help of local partners, FFI walks these women through the legal and logistical procedures required in order for them to leave Thailand, while providing care and emotional support during this process. We also help connect these women with organizations in their home countries that can help them rebuild their lives with dignity and strength.

3. RESTORATION
3.1 Vocational Training Baking project: Our baking training program will help participants learn a new trade with an opportunity to open up their own businesses. The goal of our program is for women leaving exploitation to eventually be able to open their own bakery or be employed in the commercial baking industry. We are committed to walking hand-in-hand with these women and showing them another way of life, another way to earn income, and another way to regard their self-worth. By providing these women with a firm foundation to build on, they can eventually return to their homes and families to make an impact on their own community. 
Vocational Training Salon Project: Our salon project is designed to educate and empower those affected by sexual exploitation by providing an education in hair design. Through this vocational training program, we will give participants the chance to grow, thrive, and look ahead to a future filled with hope. We will be providing education, training, and support in the areas of hair cutting, barbering, hair coloring, and hair styling. Providing someone with a skill set and an education is a priceless gift that can be shared with others from similar circumstances.
Vocational Training Life skills: For our Baking and Salon Projects, students also learn personal and professional budgeting and finance, personal and cosmetic health and hygiene, ESL, and basic life skills. Furthermore, we recognize that the women in our programs have experienced a lot in their lives, and so we place a high value on restorative trauma-centered counseling for all of our participants.