Reintegration

I’ve written periodically about this young woman, one of our trafficking survivors at our shelter in Lao Cai Province. She is a very smart and determined young woman. Her story is full of tragedy, though unfortunately not atypical. A member of an ethnic minority group near the Chinese border, at age 16 she was tricked by her friend and sold to a couple in China who bought her for their son. Soon after she gave birth to a daughter, they sold her to work as forced labor in a coat factory.
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Each trafficking survivor that we meet leaves a mark. More than 20 years of separation, we reunited P. with her family. Her reunion renews the meaning of our work.
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