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The Foundation for Women (FFW)
is a non-governmental organization providing services to women and
based in Bangkok, Thailand. 
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 The Foundation for Women helped free Laotian women and children from the glove factoryFoundation For Women (FFW) cooperated with the Immigration Detention Center (IDC) to interview a Laotian girl who escaped from a glove factory located in Soi Puttabucha, Bangmod, Bangkok. This girl informed our staff that more than 10 of her friends were still imprisoned in the factory. On the 20th of July 2006, FFW cooperated with staff from Kred Trakarn Shelter and the Crime Against Child, Juvenile and Woman Suppression Division (CCSD) to bust the factory. Together the police, Baan Kred Trakarn shelter staff and FFW produced a search warrant for the factory, and found seventeen women and children and one man from Laos imprisoned there. The girls were aged under 21 -mostly 14 and 15 year old, and the youngest just 12 years old. The man was aged 23. Read More |
| Where Was I That Day? Tsunami, A Story Told By Andaman Children On June 23rd – 24th 2006, nearly 18 months to the day since the tsunami disaster struck the Andaman Coast of Thailand, I was privileged to witness Andaman children who have been participating in the Foundation for Women’s tsunami recovery activities, host an event to launch their book, Where Was I that Day? Tsunami, a Story Told by Andaman Children. More than 300 people flocked from the reaches of Thailand and others from corners of the world to attend the two day event held in Khao, Lak, Phang-Nga Province, Thailand. Read More |
| Weaving New Lives with Andaman Women and Children - More than one year after the Tsunami. How are women recovering from Mother Nature if man made terminology determines their entitlements? FFW conducted a survey after the December 26th, 2004 Sea-Quake Tsunami, to see the damage to women and children, and set up a coordinating centre in Phang-Nga, in April 2005. The response to the Tsunami was overwhelming. Generosity poured in from all over the world. Waves of assistance came to wash away the waves that destroyed. Yet our survey revealed that there are many groups of women, who have been traumatized by the deaths of their husbands, children and friends, and are marginalized and unable to access government compensation and relief assistance. Read More |
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