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Slavery Surrounding the Unaccompanied Minor Crisis

News headlines are abuzz of the unaccompanied minor crisis at the U.S.’s southwest borders. Officials estimate that at least 60,000 children have made their way, undocumented, into the U.S. during the last year. In the wake of other major conflicts a

Flor Molina

In 2001, Flor Molina became a victim of slavery in the garment industry in Los Angeles. She was an easy target: a desperate mother who had just lost her baby because she didn't have the money to hospitalize her sick child. This article originally app

Shamere McKenzie

Shamere McKenzie was a college student struggling to pay her tuition when she met her trafficker in 2005. He was a charismatic man who lured McKenzie into a relationship, promising to help and give her an opportunity to safely and quickly earn money

Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah was only 12 years old when a government army pulled him into the Sierra Leone armed conflict in 1993. Confused and afraid, Beah witnessed and participated in the atrocities of the civil war until he was rescued by UNICEF in 1996.  Accord

James Annan

As the youngest child of an illiterate family, being enslaved was not uncommon in Ghana when James Kofi Annan was growing up. He had not begun primary school when he was sent away by his father to work in a fishing village nine hours away from his ho

Beatrice Fernando

A divorcee at age 23, Sri Lankan Beatrice Fernando answered an ad from a local agency looking to employ housemaids. Desperate to support her three-year-old son on her own, Fernando agreed to travel and work as a maid in Lebanon. Unbeknownst to her, t

Christine Caine - The A21 Campaign

In 2007, while walking through the airport in Thessaloniki, Greece, evangelist and motivational speaker Christine Caine passed by a number of handmade posters with pictures of missing girls. Astounded that so many kids were missing, Caine did some re

Justin Dillon - Made in a Free World

Artist, entrepreneur, public speaker and abolitionist Justin Dillon utilizes social media, film and music to make the issue of modern-day slavery public knowledge. He is the founder and CEO of Made in a Free World, which engages in several projects a

Maureen Dunn - Mata Traders

When Maureen Dunn started Mata (Hindi for “mother”) Traders, a vintage-inspired and artisan-made Indian imports business, she was excited about bringing striking eastern textiles and jewelry to Chicago. Her sales were flourishing, and then one day so

Theresa Flores - S.O.A.P.

Like many survivors, Theresa Flores is paying it forward by reaching out to at-risk individuals and raising awareness about human trafficking. An all-American girl from a well-to-do white suburban neighborhood, then 15-year-old Theresa Flores was not