Provide a Home
A mom, a dad, and a safe place to sleep, through foster families or family reunification.
Since 1992, Anita and her team have flipped the story for over one thousand kids. Eighty seven are still waiting.
Fifty dollars a month gives a child school, food, medical care, and someone who shows up.
1,000+
Kids helped since 1992
87
Kids still waiting
$50
A month sponsors one child
Anita's story
"I grew up a city girl who was afraid of blood. Then I held a baby while she died in my arms."
Anita McGee has been showing up for kids nobody else showed up for since 1992. It started with one baby, one thousand dollars, and a flood.
Read Anita's Story
What we do
Three pillars, one childhood
Provide Hope
Real classrooms for refugee kids who are locked out of school, so no trafficker's promise ever looks like a way out.
Build a Foundation
The School of Future Leaders adds mentorship, vocational training, and spiritual guidance.
Stories
Sunny's story
Sunny is the oldest in our program. He has a little sister he loves very much, and he takes care of her. He helps his family with chores and studies very hard in school. He's just a great kid.
So what brought him to live in the landfill? The war. He lost his home. He lost his opportunities. He lost his peace. Children living in places like the landfill are easy targets for people who want to take advantage of them.
But one day, when we talked with him about his goals, he didn't cry about the past. Instead, he's working hard in the present. He wants to study well so he can help more people. He wants to pay it forward, so others can get help the way he did.
That's what we're doing. We give a little support and encouragement so these kids don't lose hope, so they don't get lost in despair, but instead find their way to shine.
And that's why we call him Sunny.
Sam's story
What would you do if your situation felt hopeless? Sam lived with oppression and violence. He fell into a deep depression and even tried to take his own life. A child without hope is exactly the kind of child traffickers look for.
But that's his past. Today Sam is in a safe place, surrounded by people who look out for him. When we see him, he's full of energy and smiles. He's going back to school, and this is the healthy life we want to see for him. He's just a kid who needed to feel he belongs.
Grace's story
Grace lost both of her parents and has lived in an orphanage for almost 11 years. She dreams of becoming a nurse one day.
Many girls who grow up without parents leave the orphanage with nowhere to go, and that's when they are most at risk. Right now, we're guiding her as she studies toward that goal, along with a special course to become an assistant nurse for the elderly after she graduates. Grace won't walk out into the world alone. She'll have a plan and a future.
The people around her truly support her and love her like one of their own. She is not abandoned. She has a family. And because she feels she belongs, she has even more to give.
Even without parents, she keeps striving. She wants to be a blessing to others.
Names have been changed to protect the children's privacy.
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Rescue Kids International is a nonprofit that prevents child trafficking among refugee families fleeing the war in Burma, operating primarily in Thailand since 1992.