About Ruam Chuay

Ruam Chuay delivers relationship education and violence prevention programs for schools, workplaces, and organizations.

We equip people with skills to prevent intimate partner violence, including sexual assault and emotional abuse. And, help schools deliver key parts of comprehensive sexuality education.

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We’re changing the conversation and norms.

Stigma has been attached to sex, intimate relationships, and relationship violence for generations.

It’s stopped people from being able to access information to keep themselves safe, get healthcare, and feel comfortable fully expressing themselves.

Our Principles

The first piece of our puzzle is to create spaces where people feel comfortable engaging in these topics. Then, we’re able to give people skills to be part of the solution.

To shift the conversation:

We're moving away from:

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And, it's working

Key Outcomes

1600+

1600+ participants have gone through our programs.

Compared to the baseline in Thailand, we’re able to create a comfortable environment for people to engage in these important conversations.

In Most Classrooms in Thailand

Only 53.30% of students feel comfortable talking about sex and relationships in the classroom across Thailand1

53.30%

In Ruam Chuay Program's

91.98% of participants surveyed agreed that they were comfortable engaging in conversations about sex and relationships in our programs.

91.98%

What’s more is that people recognize these skills are essential.

98.70% of Ruam Chuay program participants agree that safer relationship skills are important for their communities to learn about.

98.70%
1Source: This is from a research and report on the state of Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Thailand by the Thai Ministry of Education and UNICEF (2016).

Get to know the team

Ruam Chuay was founded in 2018 by a mother-daughter duo.

We know an unlikely combination to address this type of subject matter. But that’s all part of breaking the stigma, learning to have challenging conversations, to create safer communities.

Monisha Bajaj

Monisha is sparking a cultural shift in personal and business well-being. She is the founder of Ruam Chuay.

As Executive Director, Monisha steers the vision and leads the team. She designs our relationship violence interruption programs and in-house facilitator training program.

Monisha is driven to give people tools to create uplifting connections to others and themselves. To do so, Monisha combines deep knowledge in restorative justice and business strategy in new insightful ways.

Alongside getting her B.A. in Communications from the University of Southern California, Monisha got training in crisis response, bystander intervention, and paraprofessional counseling. Then, through Simon Fraser University, she got certified in restorative justice—a non-punitive way to repair harm. Before that, she graduated from the New International School of Thailand (NIST).

Monisha is also a business strategist and founder at m times v. She’s helped 70+ founders work through strategy execution, capacity, and team growth challenges.

When you hear her speak, you’ll quickly see she is an inspiring, giving, and level-headed leader.

She was featured on NASDAQ and mentioned in Thrive Global as a “social impact leader to watch.”

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Mamta Bajaj

Mamta is driven to help people build emotional resilience. She is the co-founder of Ruam Chuay.

As Operations and Outreach Director, she’s likely the person you’ll talk to about bringing a program to your school or organization. Mamta runs day-to-day operations and our programs for parents.

She brings a counseling and trauma conscious lens to our organization.

Mamta is a counseling psychologist at Three Point Counselling. She is a certified Clinical Traumatologist TITC-CT from the Traumatology Institute. She also has certifications in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Trauma and Depression from the Beck Institute and is a member of the American Psychological Association.

Before that, she got her Masters in Psychotherapy and Counseling from the Institute of Psychotherapy and Management Science Mumbai and Bangkok. She received her Bachelors from FIDM in Los Angeles, California. While growing up in Bangkok, she studied at Bangkok Patana School (BPS) and graduated from the International School of Bangkok (ISB).

She leads with compassion and joyful energy—and we’re better people for it.

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Anaita Talati

Anaita is passionate about using education to create a better society and started volunteering on the team in 2017.

Anaita helps develop and adapt Ruam Chuay’s program curriculum to fit the needs of participants of different age groups and abilities.

Currently, she is a primary school teacher in Australia. Anaita has training in child protection, understanding trauma in children, behavior support planning, and communication and autism.

She gained her Masters of Teaching from the University of Sydney, her Bachelors of Science in Psychology, and Bachelors of Commerce from the Australian National University. Before that, she graduated from the New International School of Thailand (NIST).

Take it from us, she’s one of the kindest and most patient educators around.

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Ashima Sethi

Ashima uses words as a force for good. She is a workshop facilitator at Ruam Chuay.

Ashima delivers our signature programs at local high schools. Giving students language and skills to create safer relationships in their day-to-day lives.

After going through facilitator training herself, Ashima began putting these skills into practice in her day-to-day life and quickly saw the power they hold—motivating her to share them with others.

Ashima is an engaging communicator.

She spent years developing visual and theater arts skills. Then, decided that the written word was what she loved most. Now, she works as a digital editor and lifestyle journalist by day and a professional DJ by night.

She has a Bachelors in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Nottingham, and studied Global Liberal Studies at New York University. Born and raised in Bangkok, she graduated from the New International School of Thailand (NIST).

A lover of all things creative, Ashima energizes us to do what truly lights you up.

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