Who is Amber Van Esseveld ?
Amber, an author of multiple books and a prominent advocate for The Exodus Road, has been approached through various channels by our team to respond to numerous allegations concerning Matt Parker and the organization’s practices. Regrettably, she has not provided any replies or addressed the questions posed to her. It’s noteworthy how individuals, seemingly sincere online through polished interviews and publications, appear disinterested or unwilling to address genuine concerns when confronted with serious allegations. Amber Van, in particular, stands out as a notable supporter who fails to address these ethical questions, contributing to the perception of insincerity surrounding the charity.
https://www.instagram.com/ambernvan/
Matt charges guys 4500 USD to go on nights out!
Matt from The Exodus road has been told several times to stop bringing volunteers into this night life world, to use them as spies and informants, taking them on nights out in bars in Thailand in the guise that they are doing charity work. Matt charges 4500 USD per volunteer, so it’s a good source of income, no arrests have been made thanks to these extra volunteers. Most of the married men signing up to this are using it as an excuse to go to lady bars.
“The volunteers’ work was a sham, said Eric Shark, a former senior investigator with Exodus Road who has been sparring with the organization over this and other issues, many of them detailed in the open letter. (Exodus Road said Shark is “not a credible source of information.”)
Shark said the training for the volunteers was thin. Between 2015-2017, he said he worked with six to eight deployments, with four to eight volunteer investigators each time. Most were men, with backgrounds as pastors, police, and NGO workers.“
None of their work led to any raids that he was aware of, he said.
He told CEO Parker to stop using the volunteers because many were liabilities. At least once he threatened a nearly out-of-control volunteer with dismissal. But, Parker refused to stop. “He loved bringing people over because it helps raise money for the organization,” Shark said.
People pay $4,500 to be a volunteer, which includes airfare and expenses, according to the website. Volunteers must be at least 30 and pass a background test and psychological evaluation. A day of in-person evaluations and testing follows. About 30% of those who apply are accepted. They also claim there is training on how to collect evidence, operate gear, and conduct intelligence gathering, according to the site. Shark said most of that was on the job.”
Source Global Observer
Further noted in the article referenced above, Matt Parker, The CEO of The Exodus Road, has found underage girls several times and has not acted, helped, or informed any of the business owners. He chooses his victims wisely, such as western bar owners that he thinks won’t make him any issues. He only works with girls that he can pay to make false statements about their bosses, also he speaks down to Thai women, as this ex-staff member said
“ A Thai-American woman, who asked to remain anonymous because she now does similar work in the U.S., cited a trip to a red light district where a lead on a vulnerable woman was never followed up.
The woman, then 24, was asked to accompany Parker and pretend to be his girlfriend on an undercover trip to a bar in Pattaya. It was awkward because she worked in the office and was not trained to do undercover. The trip was supposed to be … what? Investigative? She wasn’t sure and said it was never explained.
In the bar, she spoke with a 16-year-old girl named Man, in a haunting conversation. The girl said she was supposed to sell her virginity. The employee was appalled. Man wasn’t scared, depressed or drugged, she said. “She was just kind of resigned that this is what my job is now.”
The woman, Parker, and another investigator left, doing nothing to help Man. What are we going to do for her?, she asked. We can’t help every girl, she was told. And that was that.“
“On another occasion, while serving as Parker’s interpreter for a group of lawmen, the woman had a side conversation in Thai with an attendee. That caught Parker’s attention, but not in a good way. He later told her she should not speak to the others, but should be a “submissive Thai girl.”
“I said, ‘What?’ I am a Thai girl, but also an American girl.” She found the remark deeply upsetting. Her then boyfriend, now husband, confirmed they spoke about both incidents. “
Further Reading.
Please please read the following articles
Remember leopards don’t change their spots, money can cover tracks and buy silence but good people will stand up eventually.
https://gobserver.net/4806/global-diaries/thailand/furor-erupts-over-anti-sex-trafficker-exodus-road/
Key comments from the linked Global Observer expose. (Nothing has since changed in the way Matt operates)
“The red flags started for Allison Weber even before she started work with Exodus Road. At a supper in Thailand with the CEO, Matt Parker, and a few other couples, Parker suggested a tour of the red light district in the city of Pattaya, to show everyone how bad it was.
She had no interest in going. She’d visited go-go bars and brothels as part of her other job, which involved helping women in prostitution. It’s not pleasant. “It’s men groping women. It’s intense,” she said. She was surprised a man who ran a nonprofit fighting sex trafficking wanted to do this.
Parker pushed the men to go. He said something like: How small a man do you have to be to not go to these places? “My husband was really offended,” she said. “That felt out of line to me.”
“Other allegations about Exodus Road include:
— The encouragement of sexualized behavior with women in bars and brothels as part of of going “undercover,”
— A number of instances among office workers of sexually inappropriate language,
— The demeaning treatment of staff,
— The size of the salaries paid to the two top employees, who are a married couple, and the methodology the organization uses to count the people it says it rescues.
“This is a really toxic organization and it’s harming the anti-trafficking sector as a whole,” said Weber, whose dinner with Parker was in 2014, and who had worked an another anti-sex-trafficking nonprofit for two years prior. “Their behavior is really damaging to that work.” Please read the entire article for all the info
More damming evidence from the past (but still being done to this day)
https://theexodusroadopenletter.medium.com/this-open-letter-regarding-the-exodus-road-ter-and-the-actions-of-ter-ceo-matt-parker-and-5fbb3e963455
https://gobserver.net/4822/global-diaries/thailand/allegations-of-sexual-misconduct-at-exodus-road/
Below are screenshots from the Wikipedia page about The Exodus Road, we urge all readers to contact the good people they have fooled to be behind them. We will contact them later and if they are silent like Amber Van Esseveld, we will know they are getting paid to look the other way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus_Road
Below is a screenshot taken from Wikipedia.
We have included the latest screenshot below and a previous one that was changed.
