“Suddenly, after I saw a small, fragile body on the monitor, my eyes were filled with tears, and I asked myself how I could be so cruel?”

It wasn’t love for her prospective bridegroom but love for her mother that led Jantra to agree to the marriage. After all, her mother really needed the money and only Jantra could get it for her.

I learned I was pregnant when I was four months along already. At first, I wondered why I did not have my period. My sister told me that sometimes periods did not come every month. She said that sometimes they stopped for a long time and then came back again.”
Dok Phai was only 13 years old….

“When I was about 17 years old some men came to talk with my parents about sending me to Thailand to work. I would have the opportunity to work and send money back to Burma to help pay for the education of my younger siblings. My parents paid these people some money to arrange it for me.

I guess I am 20 years old. My son is for sure 4 years old. I do not know who my parents were. I was told that I lost them when I was young. It is good that I know my dear son, and he knows me as his mother. I just want to be good mother to my son and to care for him….

When you look at the sky just before a big storm hits, you can see dark clouds, called korn mek in Thai, gathering overhead. Watching them, a sense of foreboding may enter your heart as you wonder how seriously the power hidden within the big, dark clouds might damage the elements of your life and home.

I am not sure about how she is going to get the sun’s attention. But certainly, there will be a gentle moon light shining on her…from her own “Pra Chan,” and that light will take her a long way

If I know what‘s wrong with my child, then, he will be alright.

The thing Dau Ruang wants most right now is Be a full-fledged Thai citizen. So many job ads begin with the words: “Wanted: Thai national…”

Horror! Fear! Shame! Revulsion over what had happened! Dread over what was to come! Unprepared to handle any or all of it! What to do? Where to start?