Change Your World Hawaii

The CEO and founder of NightLight, Annie has worked with victims of sexual exploitation in Bangkok, Thailand for 8 years. God instilled in her a vision to bring women out of prostitution through a holistic approach involving community living, spiritual care, and economic rehabiliation. So, Nightlight is both a mission and a business. It provides jewelry manufacturing jobs to the former prostitutes and trafficking victims it serves, nurturing them in a healing community of supportive sisters.

Annie grew up on the mission field in Africa, Europe, Thailand, and India. She and her husband, Jeff, and their 4 children have been serving in Thailand since 1994. Annie has a passion to see the global church working together to free, heal, and restore those who have been broken and wounded through the sex trade.

Bill Forbes is the Senior Advisor for Child Protection and Children in Crisis for World Vision International. He provides strategic leadership, training and research for improving programs to protect the world's most vulnerable children and families.

The focus of this role includes programming for street children and children affected by armed conflict and other crises. His work targets child trafficking, sexual exploitation of children, and geneder- based violence.

Previously, Bill worked for World Vision in Cambodia for 8 years. He studied International Development at Fuller Theological Seminary School of World Mission and at Cornell University. Bill is currently based in Federal Way, WA, where he enjoys life with his wife Heather, two daughters, one son and their Cambodian dog.