It was a situation of a slave at the beck and call of her master. It could be described as the Israelites in the hands of Pharaohs and the Egyptians,” - Bukola Oriola

The thing is the wound is inside and it is hard to heal. I’m tearing up not because I’m sad but because it’s always an open wound that is there. You heal through the process but it’s not a healing that happens once.

She found her fellow survivors, “energetic, intelligent, resilient, and very engaging. Meeting them felt like meeting missing or separated siblings. We all connected because we had all survived one form of torture or the other as a result of various forms of human trafficking.”

People need to know that being abroad does not necessarily mean greener pastures…It could be a potential trap to human trafficking or domestic abuse.