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It takes so much courage for survivors to

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speak out and tell their stories.

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For one, they are afraid of the

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traffickers finding them, but two,

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it brings up alot of really really hard

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memories. And so I feel privileged to able

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to hear a survivor story and know that

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just by telling their story, they trust me

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enough to hold it for them.

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My name is Lorena. I'm from Philippines.

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My name is Othaya Kante Saldado.

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I'm from Sri Lanka.

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My name is Thige.

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I'm from Eritrea, Asmara.

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My name is Flora and I'm from

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Pablo, Mexico.

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My name is Jason Gusman and

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I am from the Philipinnes.

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So my name is Pichai.

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My name is Suchai.

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I was promised a good job for the house

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and didn't have to worry about anything.

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She said, "you can come with me and work

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with me in restaurant. I have restaurant.

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I- I pay you alot of money."

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I thought it was a great opportunity to

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come over here and work in the

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United State. Because everyone in the

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Philippines like when they heard America

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they wanna go- they wanna come here.

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I wasn't able to talk to anybody. I was

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forbidden to put one step out of the shop.

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We sleep on the floor. Yes.

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I feel numb because I don't know what do,

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I don't know how to do it.

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I had to work 17 hours a day,

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seve- seven days a week.

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I wasn't able to talk to my co-workers.

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Sometime I feel like I wanna kill myself

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because it was to painful like it's really

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it's really like hurt- it's- it's really

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like you know hurtful how you see-

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how you see treat me. I don't know.

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Where am I gonna go. I don't have anyone.

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I don't have any money even though she

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promise me to pay me like 150 dollars

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a month but I did not get that money.

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My trafficker often said that girls have

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more rights in the United States than

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I did. She said, "if I kill a dog I would

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get in trouble but if I kill you nobody

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is going to know and nobody is going

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to care.

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She took my passport. I can go.

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I feel afraid. Because I don't know

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where to go. No passport how can I go back

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to Thailand. Yeah. I- I don't know-

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I don't know how to go.

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I don't know friend. No friend.

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Just friendly with in her house.

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The trafficker said, if I tell anybody

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what was going on, nobody will

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believe me. And if I go to the police,

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they will not believe me. They will put

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me in jail and she- she knew where my

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children were and I didn't want to risk

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my children.

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What she always said that you can't go

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nowhere. You belong to me.

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The day that I was escape, umm, the- the

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woman who helped me like took me to CAST

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the same day and uh, since then CAST

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help me alot with, you know, shelter,

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with food, with money, with anything that

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I need to get on my feet.

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They brought you like who was gonna help

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you to talk or interpreter. Like if you

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need something.

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For the blanket, for the clothes,

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they give me alot.

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Encouraging me to do something like

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encouraging me like to go to school.

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And the CAST help you to know your right.

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And they- they make me very strong and

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independent person.

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CAST open door for me. CAST take me

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at Alexandra House. CAST take me school,

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now I speak English alittle bit.

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CAST has, uh, helped me through

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everything.

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When I spoke like with the congressman

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or with senator like when we went

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to Washington DC. I feel like am very

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important person.

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We went to Sacramento and we got the

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regulations passed. So now thanks to the

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green card campaign, we are, uh, green

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card holders.

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I want to be the voice of, um, the fixer

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because I know how it feels to be in

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that situation.

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In this country, you know, people has

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a voice no matter who you are even though

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you are a slave.

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We all know we've been- we've been, uh,

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been enslaved and now we survived.

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Even though we passed like, but we always

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talk about that and we're still sharing.

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Free it's, uh, it means alot to me. Like-

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like when you're free, when you became

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a free, you- it feels like you're

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a new born child.

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Freedom for me is really special thing

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for me because I never have freedom

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in my life.

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When I- when I was free, I was scared but

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I was so happy.

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Am happy now because I have everything.

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I go to school. I have job.

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I have green card. I- I- everything.

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I'm happy.

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Yes, I love freedom. Anybody love freedom.

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I- am proud of myself. I was a slave

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and now I'm survivor, I'm activist and

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I'm a mother.

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Freedom is everything to me. This is,

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you know, everyone deserve to have, uh,

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freedom. It's free.

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I wanna be part of it. I wanna be part

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of the mission to end slavery. I wanna be

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part of the making of the history of end

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slavery for good.

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And the CAST, uh, help me become

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an independent- become like a real man.

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At CAST we have the previlege of working

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directly with victims, who then transform

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and become survivors after going through

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our critical programs.

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And that's important because we are able

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to use those experiences and help

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survivors become leaders and powerful

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agents of change to impact

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systemic social change.

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Who better to inform us how to end modern

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day slavery than survivors themselves.

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When survivors tell us they're now happy,

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we know we've done our job at CAST.