International Programs
Though Minga now focuses on combating the United States child sex trade, Minga used to work internationally. Minga maintains connections with several international organizations. To understand more about Minga's past international efforts, see below.
The Philippines
PREDA (People’s Recovery, Empowerment, and Development Assistance Foundation) www.preda.org
With PREDA, Minga helped fund and develop a rehabilitation home for girl victims ages 9-18 of prostitution. Rescued from brothels and bars around the Philippines, these girls receive all their basic needs, vocational training, scholarships for education through university, and full life counseling so that they can have a new beginning. For some of the up to 35 girls that can be housed at this center, the program includes reintegration back into their families and communities. The center is currently undergoing construction. Click here for stories of children rescued by PREDA
Thailand
The Development and Education Program for Daughters and Communities
Minga is currently working in collaboration with the Mekong Youth Union, a network of 100 young people from Thailand, China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Burma/Myanmar, to create youth-led programs against human trafficking in the Greater-Mekong Sub-Region.
Above: Minga in Guatemala with local children.
Guatemala
The Mayan Art Academy
In June 2007 13 Minga Youth volunteers travelled to Guatemala to distribute school and art supplies and well as to volunteer in a variety of programs that work with street children and at-risk youth across the Central Highlands region.
Canada
Since our founding in August 2006, Minga has worked closely with OneChild, a youth-run nonprofit based out of Toronto. Beginning with our joint project in the Philippines with PREDA, Minga has since worked with OneChild to pressure American Airlines to air an in-flight video warning potential offenders that they can be punished for their exploitative actions abroad as if they had acted at home, as well as to raise general awareness. This joint campaign was based largely on OneChild’s successful campaign with Air Canada.