SHE Ministries, alongside The Good Shepherd, is pioneering an English program that reaches out to the Burmese community, specifically pregnant women, living in Koh Sirey.
Due to their lack of common resources, such as access to milk, food and reliable daily income, pregnant Burmese women can easily be put into at-risk situations, therefore, putting their future children in the same situations.
Because SHE is dedicated to women and children in at-risk areas in Thailand, the ministry saw a place to fulfill a need.
Many of the women come from local camps in which the sanitation, food supply, housing and salary are below average. Pregnant women usually are left alone with their other children from the early morning until late evening. If the women have husbands, they are away working these long hours. Therefore, the women do not have help while going through their pregnancy or have assistance immediately after. They are unable to attend monthly checkups and often do not know if their baby is healthy or not by the time they give birth.
Good Shepard offers these women a place to live, healthy meals and now, with the help of SHE ministries, can offer occasional rides to checkups and help with the financial needs of these women as support allows. SHE staff also teaches the women English every week in hopes that they can get a better job and have an opportunity to move out of their camps and into more sanitary conditions.
In just the few short months, SHE interns have not only been able to teach and develop English skills to 15 women, but have formed such close relationships with them that they have been able to open up and share more about their lives and allowed the interns to come into their homes back in the camps.
In the past, SHE staff has done everything from driving a woman in labor to the hospital to deliver her baby, to providing a way to offer monthly check ups, to paying for the hospital bills, to picking up truck loads of milk, to raising money for one family to have milk daily, to purchasing fun teaching supplies for the English classes. We have also been able to attend birthday parties when the mothers have their children and trips to the beach to exchange stories.
Through these English programs, we can share the love of Christ with these women who are used to not being able to trust anyone. Over time, their shyness and hesitation has turned into joy, trust, love and laughter. This transformation is really what we hope continues in the lives of the women and children in Koh Sirey.
Once trust is in place, we can really begin to see hope for a better future for these women and children.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” –Jeremiah 29:11
Due to their lack of common resources, such as access to milk, food and reliable daily income, pregnant Burmese women can easily be put into at-risk situations, therefore, putting their future children in the same situations.
Because SHE is dedicated to women and children in at-risk areas in Thailand, the ministry saw a place to fulfill a need.
Many of the women come from local camps in which the sanitation, food supply, housing and salary are below average. Pregnant women usually are left alone with their other children from the early morning until late evening. If the women have husbands, they are away working these long hours. Therefore, the women do not have help while going through their pregnancy or have assistance immediately after. They are unable to attend monthly checkups and often do not know if their baby is healthy or not by the time they give birth.
Good Shepard offers these women a place to live, healthy meals and now, with the help of SHE ministries, can offer occasional rides to checkups and help with the financial needs of these women as support allows. SHE staff also teaches the women English every week in hopes that they can get a better job and have an opportunity to move out of their camps and into more sanitary conditions.
In just the few short months, SHE interns have not only been able to teach and develop English skills to 15 women, but have formed such close relationships with them that they have been able to open up and share more about their lives and allowed the interns to come into their homes back in the camps.
In the past, SHE staff has done everything from driving a woman in labor to the hospital to deliver her baby, to providing a way to offer monthly check ups, to paying for the hospital bills, to picking up truck loads of milk, to raising money for one family to have milk daily, to purchasing fun teaching supplies for the English classes. We have also been able to attend birthday parties when the mothers have their children and trips to the beach to exchange stories.
Through these English programs, we can share the love of Christ with these women who are used to not being able to trust anyone. Over time, their shyness and hesitation has turned into joy, trust, love and laughter. This transformation is really what we hope continues in the lives of the women and children in Koh Sirey.
Once trust is in place, we can really begin to see hope for a better future for these women and children.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” –Jeremiah 29:11