I Escaped. Now I m Using My Voice for Victims Trafficked to the U.S.
It’s National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention month, it’s vital that we all do our part to end human trafficking.
Pulcherie Kindoho
I spent more than four years living in the shadows as a victim of human trafficking. America may have outlawed slavery a century and a half ago, but there is still a frightening underground network of labor and sex trafficking in this country, even in the most unassuming communities.
I grew up in West Africa in a loving family, but my parents struggled to make ends meet. To us, Europe and America were places of prosperity and opportunity. I was 19 years old when, in 1999, a family friend asked me to go to Paris with her to help her with hair braiding. I was excited; I had never been out of West Africa before, and I was hopeful that I would be able to make money that I could send back to my family.