Recently we dedicated our Chab Dai Library and Resource Centre to Siobhan Miles.

This dedication honors her commitment, perseverance and legacy of the Butterfly research and the voices of survivors who, through this research, are able to have their experiences, hopes, fears and opinions shared not only in Cambodia but around the world, to further the understanding of those working with them and advocating for them and create a better future for others at risk and exploited. Helen and the Butterfly team both wrote a few words regarding Siobhans life in Cambodia:

Human Trafficking is a worldwide crime that particularly is being carried out in South East Asia. With different push factors, Cambodia is one of the main transit countries in South-East Asia. Women, men and children are trafficked and tricked into slavery every day to perform inhumane work in various industries such as fishing, prostitution, forced marriage and factory labor. Human trafficking is a well-organized crime that develops like every other crime or field. The image of human trafficking changes and we often identify new trends or areas. We all need to keep up with this ongoing development if we want to fight human trafficking.

"How effective are volunteers?"

Last year we had the opportunity to take a look at one of the aspects of international work that comes up a lot. We got to look at a very interesting question: How effective are volunteers? and how is their work perceived by those who live and work in the countries where they go to volunteer?

Chab Dai took its first steps as an organisation in 2005, when the coalition’s first staff came on board.  Helen recounted Chab Dai’s first hires, including Chab Dai’s current National Director Ros Yeng: “I had sent out a number of ads for someone to apply for the position of national coordinator, because from the beginning I had a five-year plan to hand over leadership...