Ya Sae-war. Meaning in life: a study of working experience of international volunteers fighting against human trafficking. Master's Degree(Counseling Psychology). Chiang Mai University. Library. : Chiang Mai University, 2568.
Meaning in life: a study of working experience of international volunteers fighting against human trafficking
Abstract:
This study is conducted using qualitative method of finding the meaning in life from fighting against human trafficking work experience of the international volunteers. The key informants are international volunteers who have been working in anti-human trafficking non-governmental organizations for at least 1 year and volunteering in the Chiang Rai province. In order to aid the gathering of necessary information, a method of phenomenological, unstructured, in-depth interviews were used in the interviews and the data analyzed by content analysis methodology. There are three meanings in life found from fighting human trafficking which are (1) the passion to bring God's justice to earth (2) God is the resource of life and (3) seeing changes in people's lives makes volunteering worthwhile. Those three meanings fulfilled in the international volunters' lives in two aspects, (1) relationship with God eates into relationship with people and (2) volunteering is give and take work the result of experience of fight human trafficking, the international volunters were transformed into a new person with a wider perspective on their meaning in life. This finding may be useful for creating a volunteer counseling/support program in order to recruit new international volunteers and retain the established volunteers in their workplaces.