WEBVTT 00:00:10.504 --> 00:00:13.338 It takes so much courage for survivors 00:00:13.338 --> 00:00:15.379 to speak out and tell their stories. 00:00:15.379 --> 00:00:19.609 For one, they are afraid of the traffickers finding them, 00:00:19.609 --> 00:00:23.379 but two, it brings up a lot of really really hard memories. 00:00:24.168 --> 00:00:29.958 And so I feel privileged to be able to hear a survivor story 00:00:30.476 --> 00:00:36.216 and know that just by telling their story, they trust me enough to hold it for them. 00:00:36.786 --> 00:00:40.476 (Music) 00:00:40.481 --> 00:00:43.591 My name is Lorena. I'm from Philippines. 00:00:43.591 --> 00:00:46.131 My name is Othaya Kante Saldado. 00:00:46.131 --> 00:00:47.461 I'm from Sri Lanka. 00:00:47.501 --> 00:00:49.141 My name is Thige. 00:00:50.165 --> 00:00:51.840 I'm from Eritrea, Asmara. 00:00:52.004 --> 00:00:54.707 My name is Flora and I'm from Pablo, Mexico. 00:00:55.142 --> 00:00:58.882 My name is Jason Gusman and I am from the Philippines. 00:00:59.282 --> 00:01:00.862 So my name is Pichai. 00:01:01.254 --> 00:01:02.724 My name is Suchai. 00:01:02.814 --> 00:01:07.994 (Music) 00:01:08.222 --> 00:01:10.822 I was promised a good job for the house 00:01:10.822 --> 00:01:12.832 and didn't have to worry about anything. 00:01:13.066 --> 00:01:18.124 She said, "you can come with me and work with me in restaurant. 00:01:18.464 --> 00:01:20.574 I have restaurant. I pay you a lot of money." 00:01:20.574 --> 00:01:24.886 I thought it was a great opportunity to come over here and work in the US. 00:01:24.886 --> 00:01:28.976 Because everyone in the Philippines, like when they heard America, 00:01:28.976 --> 00:01:31.176 they wanna go- they wanna come here. 00:01:31.536 --> 00:01:34.836 (Music) 00:01:34.909 --> 00:01:37.606 I wasn't able to talk to anybody. 00:01:37.606 --> 00:01:40.206 I was forbidden to put one step out of the shop. 00:01:40.292 --> 00:01:43.442 We sleep on the floor. Yes. 00:01:43.980 --> 00:01:47.280 I feel numb because I don't know what do, 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:48.850 I don't know how to do it. 00:01:49.044 --> 00:01:51.254 I had to work 17 hours a day, 00:01:51.364 --> 00:01:53.234 seve- seven days a week. 00:01:53.633 --> 00:01:56.043 I wasn't able to talk to my co-workers. 00:01:56.043 --> 00:01:58.987 Sometime I feel like I wanna kill myself 00:01:59.098 --> 00:02:03.098 because it was so painful like it's really 00:02:03.556 --> 00:02:07.556 it's really like hurt- it's- it's really 00:02:07.607 --> 00:02:11.427 like, you know, hurtful how you see- 00:02:11.427 --> 00:02:13.864 how you see, um, treat me. 00:02:13.864 --> 00:02:19.371 (Music) 00:02:19.372 --> 00:02:20.412 I don't know. 00:02:20.412 --> 00:02:24.443 (Music) 00:02:24.454 --> 00:02:27.324 Where am I gonna go. I don't have anyone. 00:02:27.324 --> 00:02:32.554 I don't have any money even though she promise me to pay me 00:02:32.554 --> 00:02:36.904 like 150 dollars a month but I did not get that money. 00:02:37.057 --> 00:02:38.805 My trafficker often said 00:02:38.805 --> 00:02:43.264 that dogs have more rights in the United States, that I did. 00:02:43.264 --> 00:02:46.867 She said: "If I kill a dog, I would get in trouble 00:02:46.867 --> 00:02:49.480 but if I kill you, nobody is going to know 00:02:49.480 --> 00:02:50.886 and nobody is going to care." 00:02:50.886 --> 00:02:53.756 She took my passport. I can't go. 00:02:56.706 --> 00:02:58.045 I feel afraid. 00:02:58.908 --> 00:03:00.798 Because I don't know where to go. 00:03:02.623 --> 00:03:05.696 No passport how can I go back to Thailand. 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:12.850 Yeah. I- I don't know- 00:03:12.850 --> 00:03:14.270 I don't know how to go. 00:03:14.508 --> 00:03:16.488 I don't know friend. No friend. 00:03:16.511 --> 00:03:19.151 Just friendly with in- in her house. 00:03:20.140 --> 00:03:22.644 The trafficker said, if I tell anybody 00:03:22.644 --> 00:03:25.617 what was going on, nobody will believe me. 00:03:26.097 --> 00:03:27.474 And if I go to the police, 00:03:27.474 --> 00:03:29.184 they will not believe me. 00:03:29.184 --> 00:03:33.207 They will put me in jail and she knew where my children were 00:03:33.207 --> 00:03:35.399 and I didn't want to risk my children. 00:03:35.399 --> 00:03:39.849 What she always said that you can't go nowhere. 00:03:40.509 --> 00:03:41.516 You belong to me. 00:03:42.542 --> 00:03:45.552 [MUSIC] 00:03:45.555 --> 00:03:49.355 The day that I was escape, umm, 00:03:49.355 --> 00:03:52.625 the woman who helped me, like took me to CAST 00:03:52.625 --> 00:03:56.465 the same day and uh, since then CAST help me a lot 00:03:56.465 --> 00:04:03.106 with, you know, shelter, with food, with money, 00:04:03.106 --> 00:04:06.846 with anything that I need to get on my feet. 00:04:06.846 --> 00:04:11.356 They brought you like who was gonna help you to talk or interpreter. 00:04:11.756 --> 00:04:13.236 Like if you need something. 00:04:13.317 --> 00:04:15.827 For the blanket, for the clothes, 00:04:15.867 --> 00:04:17.347 they give me a lot. 00:04:17.862 --> 00:04:18.902 (Laughter) 00:04:19.095 --> 00:04:21.725 Encouraging me to do something like 00:04:21.725 --> 00:04:24.195 encouraging me like to go to school. 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:26.669 And the CAST help you to know your right. 00:04:26.848 --> 00:04:31.418 And they- they make me a very strong and independent person. 00:04:31.460 --> 00:04:35.810 CAST open door for me. CAST take me at Alexandra House. 00:04:36.655 --> 00:04:41.105 CAST take me school, now I speak English a little bit. 00:04:41.325 --> 00:04:45.510 CAST has helped me through everything. 00:04:45.755 --> 00:04:49.135 (Music) 00:04:49.137 --> 00:04:51.910 When I spoke like with the congressman 00:04:51.910 --> 00:04:55.117 or with senator like when we went to Washington DC. 00:04:55.467 --> 00:04:58.347 I feel like am very important person. 00:04:58.506 --> 00:05:03.011 We went to Sacramento and we got the regulations pass. 00:05:03.011 --> 00:05:08.116 So now, thanks to the green card campaign, we are, uh, green card holders. 00:05:08.116 --> 00:05:11.876 I want to be the voice of, um, the fixer 00:05:11.876 --> 00:05:14.926 because I know how it feels to be in that situation. 00:05:15.207 --> 00:05:18.454 In this country, you know, people has a voice, 00:05:18.454 --> 00:05:21.702 no matter who you are, even though you are a slave. 00:05:21.768 --> 00:05:27.368 We all know we've been enslaved and now we survived. 00:05:27.573 --> 00:05:30.813 Even though we passed like, 00:05:30.813 --> 00:05:33.573 but we always talk about that and we're still sharing. 00:05:33.683 --> 00:05:37.263 (Music) 00:05:37.353 --> 00:05:41.353 Free it's, uh, it means a lot to me. 00:05:41.856 --> 00:05:45.446 Like when you're free, when you became a free, 00:05:45.446 --> 00:05:48.916 it feels like you're a new born child. 00:05:49.616 --> 00:05:52.746 Freedom for me is really special thing for me 00:05:52.746 --> 00:05:55.936 because I never have freedom in my life. 00:05:56.194 --> 00:06:01.134 When I was free, I was scared but I was so happy. 00:06:01.288 --> 00:06:04.418 I'm happy now because I have everything. 00:06:04.418 --> 00:06:06.158 I go to school. I have job. 00:06:06.331 --> 00:06:08.571 I have green card. I have everything. 00:06:08.598 --> 00:06:09.668 I'm happy. 00:06:09.786 --> 00:06:13.456 Yes, I love freedom. Anybody love freedom. 00:06:14.378 --> 00:06:19.828 I am proud of myself. I was a slave and now I'm survivor, 00:06:20.308 --> 00:06:24.121 I'm activist and I'm a mother. 00:06:25.525 --> 00:06:28.215 Freedom is everything to me. 00:06:28.283 --> 00:06:32.743 This is, you know, everyone deserve to have a freedom. It's free. 00:06:32.772 --> 00:06:35.511 I wanna be part of it. 00:06:35.511 --> 00:06:38.098 I wanna be part of the mission to end slavery. 00:06:38.098 --> 00:06:44.595 I wanna be part of the making of the history of end slavery for good. 00:06:45.101 --> 00:06:49.521 And the CAST help me become an independent, 00:06:50.651 --> 00:06:52.660 become like a real man. 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:03.131 At CAST we have the privilege of working directly with victims, 00:07:03.741 --> 00:07:08.999 who then transform and become survivors after going through our critical programs. 00:07:09.498 --> 00:07:13.808 And that's important because we are able to use those experiences 00:07:13.928 --> 00:07:18.808 and help survivors become leaders and powerful agents of change 00:07:19.258 --> 00:07:21.728 to impact systemic social change. 00:07:22.121 --> 00:07:24.961 Who better to inform us how to end modern day slavery 00:07:24.961 --> 00:07:27.281 that survivors themselves. 00:07:27.488 --> 00:07:31.388 When survivors tell us they're now happy, 00:07:31.801 --> 00:07:33.911 we know we've done our job at CAST.