Trade As One

The beautiful jewelry of NightLight tells stories of lives rebuilt and hope restored. Kay is one of these lives.

Kay was five months pregnant when her mamasan brought her to NightLight for assistance. No longer able to work in the bar, she had nowhere to go. Kay moved into the shelter and started working in NightLight’s jewelry business. Four months later Kay’s beautiful baby girl was born, and while most women leave their children with grandparents to find work, NightLight’s child care center provided a way for Kay to raise her daughter while she continued to work. Kay’s heart is full of joy and she has become one of NightLight’s primary leaders for morning worship before the day’s jewelry production begins.

Nightlight was launched in 2005 to provide a sustainable path out of poverty and sexual abuse for Bangkok’s young women. After observing the situation around them, the founders of NightLight set a goal to combat the sexual exploitation of women and children in the Nana/Sukhumvit area of Bangkok, an area rife with sexual abuse, trafficking, and extreme poverty.

Through life-on-life ministry NightLight seeks to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of women in prostitution, their children, and those children brought illegally into Thailand to financially support their families by selling items in the bars, often through sexual exploitation. By building relationships, along with providing a center that offers emergency aid, educational and employment opportunity, emergency child care, language tutoring, literacy training, biblical teaching and healing for their community, NightLight is truly bringing light into the darkness as they impact the lives of the women and children in Bangkok who have escaped the horrors of the sex industry.

Trade as One is proud to partner with NightLight and offer these brave women a chance to connect with women in America who would love nothing more than for the jewelry they wear to be an expression of freedom and justice.