RAPHA’S HISTORY
A VISION FROM CAMBODIAN LEADERS
In 2003, Rapha International began an aftercare program for underage female survivors who had been rescued from slavery and sexual exploitation in Battambang, Cambodia. Nineteen years later, Rapha is an international organization that has won the favor of the governments in the countries in which it works. The Rapha International model is to recruit and equip local staff who are qualified and passionate about combatting child slavery, sexual exploitation, and abuse in their own countries. Each of Rapha’s aftercare programs implement a holistic approach to healing.
SEE HOW WE’VE GROWN
OVER THE YEARS!
Rapha International’s model has a proven impact in the fight against human trafficking. Founded in 2003, Rapha began working with child victims of human trafficking in Battambang, Cambodia in that year. In 2009, Rapha began serving trafficking victims in Chiang Mai, Thailand and opened its first prevention program - Kids Club - in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In 2012, another Kids Club location was established in Battambang, Cambodia. Rapha began its work with trafficking survivors in Haiti in 2014, and opened both an aftercare facility in Siem Reap, Cambodia and a Kids Club location in Mae Sot, Thailand in 2016. In 2020, Rapha opened up their Rapha Hope & Healing Center in Joplin, Missouri.
OUR VALUES
Rapha International is a public benefit 501c3 nonprofit committed to ending the trafficking and sexual exploitation of children. Founded in 2003, Rapha continues to rescue and rehabilitate children, while bringing them to lasting freedom. Rapha’s vision is to see all children living in sustainable freedom within safe communities.
Rapha is a faith-based organization that takes seriously the scripture that reads: “Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with action and in truth” (1 John 3:18). It is with compassion energized and sustained by love that we act on behalf of victimized and vulnerable children. Though we are faith-based, we offer aid without requiring those that we help to embrace our faith. When Jesus fed the 5,000 he did not withhold from those who refused to believe. He gave freely, and so do we.
