DEPDC/GMS (Development and Education Programme for Daughters and Communities Centre in the Greater Mekong Subregion) is a non-profit community based NGO working in Thailand on the prevention side of the trafficking of women and children into the prostitution industry or other exploitative child labour situations. It offers free education, vocational training and full time accommodation for young girls and boys in an effort to achieve these goals. As well as providing free permanent shelter and education DEPDC/GMS also runs several other projects and activities aimed at the prevention of and protection from trafficking and the provision of child rights in the region; emergency shelter for abused or abandoned children, care and repatriation for girls who have left prostitution, education for vulnerable children and teens outside of the formal education system, a youth leadership education programme to combat trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) and vocational and human rights training for undocumented migrants and indigenous peoples. Since its inception DEPDC has helped prevent thousands of children from the Greater Mekong Sub-region succumb to the prostitution industry or other exploitative child labour situations. These young children have received further schooling or vocational training as a good start to a healthy life.