Contrary to the media’s common depictions of modern slavery, most victims are not abducted from their homes and forced to work in brothels or lured into sexual abuse online. Instead, the path to exploitation begins because a person needs a job.
The victims of human trafficking and modern slavery 10ThousandWindows serves grew up in desperate poverty and had no choice but to leave school early to find work to help their families pay the bills. They were promised an exciting job with a dream-come-true salary. But instead of paying for college, buying a house and saving for the future, they were exploited, abused, and violated. They were traumatized in brothels, in online sexual abuse, in domestic servitude, or in factories.