For those of you who have been following the C Street story and the fact that YWAM owns C Street House and has The Family as a tennant, you might be interested to what other things YWAM is up to with Akha Girls in Thailand.
The Akha are a hill tribe in SE Asia with abotu 600,000 people. They are good mountain farmers when the Queen Bitch of Thailand isn't robbing all their rice lands. Damaged villages have their share of tough times, like finding enough to eat. The solution is protected human rights, food assistance, farming assistance, land rights. It isn't like these people don't know how to help them selves.
Taking their children away is not the answer.
But that is the answer that many missions including YWAM find convenient because they advertise the girls "at risk" to attract donor money and justify the good life they have at Akha kids expense.
YWAM.....
YWAM has a project at Chiangrai, one of several involved in taking away Akha children. But Eden House specializes in taking away teen age Akha girls a fat man named Vern McCauley has decided on his own are "at risk". The girls are taken for YWAM style imprisonment and brainwashing.
You can see how they describe Akha culture to justify themselves in this video they made and put up at youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/...
But you can go to Google Videos and see another very interesting interview with VERN in the movie "Prisoners of a White God" in which he is asked about an Akha girl at his house who was raped by a missionary. He replies that he would not want to talk about this "interesting story" because it would cause people to think bad of missionaries.
http://video.google.com/...
The problem is that the families don't know that these girls are being exploited by these missions and making money off of them for good living (you can catch Vern reading the paper every noon day at Pizza Hut in downtown Chiangrai) or that they are being brainwashed into little mission slaves by outfits like YWAM.
The Akha don't have a lot of other sources of information on what YWAM is like, its cult reputation, so the danger to them is much greater.
The parents are told their culture will be destroyed. The Eden House video of course makes like Akha culture is evil and dark, so what difference does it make?
YWAM in Thailand has hundreds of Akha children in its residential schools classified as orphans to the donors when they are not orphans. Christian Happy Home, Mae Chan Mercy House, a house at Chiang Saen and others.
There is no oversight of what happens to these children.
One of YWAM's first defenses is that all the offices operate independently as if they are not really part of YWAM. This of course is not true.
In the case of Bobby Morse, another missionary, when he was arrested for raping hill tribe girls in his house over a period of three years, he just matter of factly took the girls down to the police station where they politely recanted their stories, a big misunderstanding.
Since when does the accused take his victims to the police to help them recant the charges?
We asked Congressman Wu in Portland, Oregon to ask the US Embassy in Bangkok about the case and the application of the 2003 Child "Protect Act" but them Embassy said they didn't have to tell him anything, cause of course the "Privacy Act". And of course the long standing US/Morse family links in Thailand and Burma.