Nightlight International

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

Sep 12, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$524,016

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

In August 2012, the new NightLight Los Angeles Director was sent out to relaunch the LA Office. That November, the LA office hired a staff member to expand development. For the year, the LA office has been fundraising and strategic planning for the official launch at the end of September.

Activity 3

Between July 2012 and June 2013, NightLight in Bangkok provided alternative employment, vocational training, spiritual development, meals, health care, and life-skills training to an average of 50 women who were exiting or at risk of exploitation in the sex industry. As part of their support, NightLight provided childcare for an average of 18 children under the age of 5 and tuition scholarship to 38 children. NightLight makes contact with several hundred women in prostitution and trafficking each year and offers assistance and intervention. Eighteen international trafficked victims were assisted and eight were repatriated during the fiscal year. A shelter has been set up for victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation to be fully operational in the last quarter of 2013. NightLight also addresses the demand side through activities in the outreach center. Progress has been made in the building and set up of a coffee shop in the red light area to target the demand side as well as the broader community of those affected by the sex industry. NightLight also does prevention work in the northeast of Thailand to address the supply of young women into the sex trade. On the streets of Bangkok, NightLight reaches out to and provides assistance to the children who beg, vend, and are at high risk of trafficking. NightLight actively does awareness-raising to an average of 600 visitors per year and through trainings, speeches, and media that reaches a global audience. NightLight partners with many other NGOs and government organizations to combat trafficking through investigation, intervention, assistance, shelter, and repatriation.

Filer

EIN

20-5572130