RAPHA’S HISTORY
A VISION FROM CAMBODIAN LEADERS
Rapha International is dedicated to providing care for survivors of trafficking and abuse and working to prevent exploitation in vulnerable communities.
In 2003, Rapha’s first Survivor Care campus was established in Battambang, Cambodia. Since then, three more residential Survivor Care campuses, three Prevention Centers, and four community-based service centers have been established in Cambodia, Thailand, Haiti, and the United States. Over the last 20 years, thousands have been impacted by Rapha’s mission- to end the trafficking and sexual abuse of children- one child, one family, and one community at a time.
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 - in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In 2012, another Prevention Program was established in Battambang, Cambodia. Rapha began its work with trafficking survivors in Haiti in 2014, and opened Survivor Care Campuses in Siem Reap, Cambodia and a Prevention Program in Mae Sot, Thailand in 2016. In 2020, Rapha opened up the Rapha Hope & Healing Center in Joplin, Missouri.
OUR VALUES
Rapha International is a public benefit 501c3 nonprofit committed to ending the trafficking and sexual abuse 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.
