
Reclaiming Dignity
“I once believed in promises of a wealthy and comfortable life if I married a Chinese man. But in reality, I was sold as a
Building Resilience
“I once believed in promises of a wealthy and comfortable life if I married a Chinese man. But in reality, I was sold as a
For more than 20 years, Van, lived in a foreign land, sold and trapped as a wife in China. Time erased the details of her
Dua was only 14 when her world took a drastic turn. An ethnic H’Mong girl with dreams of opening her own beauty salon, she never
I’m currently a 3rd-year university student studying pharmacy. Time has passed so quickly! Last school year, the Covid-19 pandemic caused a lot of disruption to
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
Dao is a first-year student majoring in Pharmacy at the HCMC University of Pharmacy and Medicine. Growing up seeing her mom and the people in
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
Moua* met a Chinese man, Chang,* via Facebook. Two days later, he invited her to go to China to meet him. Chang arranged for a
When I was 12 years old, I dropped out of school because my parents constantly fought, so each person went their separate way. I had
At 6 years old, M. already knew how to cook. At 7 years old, she learned how to embroider. As orphans, M. and her siblings