Ellie Dempster

Eye-opening.

Very, very eye-opening.

I knew I wanted to work with kids.

I didn't think it was going to necessarily work and happen in that sense.

But I went...

I went there.

I actually got into it from a book that I saw on Khao San, which is like a party street, which you went to Bangkok.

I'm sure you're familiar with it.

Yeah, it's a party street.

Like if you walk down without like two things of alcohol in your hand, you're the weirdo.

So I walked down the street and there was a bookstore and I had my giant Chang, my beer.

And I was like, hold up, what?

There was a book of sex trafficking in Southeast Asia.

And something in me was like,

read that so I read the whole thing it was the most emotional read I have ever had I highlighted every single orphanage or NGO that was in there and I contacted every single one I said I don't know what I can do but please like just

Something.

And one reached out.

They said, we'd love to work with you.

And so my holiday from the teaching job, the TV show that I was working with, all of my holidays, I would then go on a nine hour bus across the country with as many toys, goodies, like educational things, like everything.

And I'd go and I went there and, you know, taught them, taught them, you know, how to.