Joy’s* name embodies her vibrant spirit: she is lively, fun-loving, and warmly engaging with everyone she meets. But Joy had to persevere to become...

Alice* found strength through hardship. When she was just 14 years old, she had to drop out of school in fear for her safety. Soon afterward, Alice...

Tatiana was just 4 years old when a teenage neighbor abused her. Now, nearly three decades later, Mi Historia Importa — an IJM survivor group in...

When Ranjita was 12, her family was forced to migrate for work after a drought devastated their community. She and her two sisters traveled with...

What seemed like a promising new relationship turned out to be a trap when a man Samara* met online forced her into commercial sexual exploitation....

Bhavani experienced incredible violence and abuse when she, her husband Kumar and two young sons were tricked into modern slavery. It started when...

Panha* worked hard on a farm in Cambodia, but he worried his earnings weren't enough for him to make ends meet. After a broker approached him, he...

When Ruby* was just 14 years old, her parents died, leaving her grieving and alone on their family farm in the Philippines. She thought...

All Aung* wanted was to help his family. The combined income of his parents, sister and brother was less than a daily minimum wage. So, at the age of...