There’s a form of slavery we’re battling today that entraps people with deception and separates families: Forced Labor Slavery.
Typically, it starts with traffickers like the farmer who exploited Raju. They prey on the most vulnerable and give them a seed of hope, a promise to get them out of poverty through a job opportunity or small loan.
But once they trap these families with their lies, they have no intention of ever letting them go. Families like Raju’s often become trapped for generations, given a debt so steep that they can never pay it off in anyone’s lifetime.
This is the form of trafficking that stole Raju away from his family for eight long years.
Raju was only 12 years old when a local, wealthy farm owner came and spoke to his parents about Raju coming to work for him for a short time in exchange for a way out of their family’s poverty.
Instead, Raju’s one week of school break turned into spending the remainder of his childhood trapped on the farm grazing the animals in the blazing sun. He tried to escape many times and return to his family, only to be dragged back.
And his hope of ever seeing his family again faded.
But support from people like you meant, together, we could find a way to reach Raju — sending him the hope of freedom day after day until it finally came.
“For the first time I dared to hope that my life at the farm was coming to an end and something new was possible.”
Will you give today to help reunite more families separated by trafficking?
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