1 00:00:10,504 --> 00:00:13,338 It takes so much courage for survivors 2 00:00:13,338 --> 00:00:15,379 to speak out and tell their stories. 3 00:00:15,379 --> 00:00:19,609 For one, they are afraid of the traffickers finding them, 4 00:00:19,609 --> 00:00:23,379 but two, it brings up a lot of really really hard memories. 5 00:00:24,168 --> 00:00:29,958 And so I feel privileged to be able to hear a survivor story 6 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. 7 00:00:36,786 --> 00:00:40,476 (Music) 8 00:00:40,481 --> 00:00:43,591 My name is Lorena. I'm from Philippines. 9 00:00:43,591 --> 00:00:46,131 My name is Othaya Kante Saldado. 10 00:00:46,131 --> 00:00:47,461 I'm from Sri Lanka. 11 00:00:47,501 --> 00:00:49,141 My name is Thige. 12 00:00:50,165 --> 00:00:51,840 I'm from Eritrea, Asmara. 13 00:00:52,004 --> 00:00:54,707 My name is Flora and I'm from Pablo, Mexico. 14 00:00:55,142 --> 00:00:58,882 My name is Jason Gusman and I am from the Philipinnes. 15 00:00:59,282 --> 00:01:00,862 So my name is Pichai. 16 00:01:01,254 --> 00:01:02,724 My name is Suchai. 17 00:01:02,814 --> 00:01:07,994 (Music) 18 00:01:08,222 --> 00:01:10,822 I was promised a good job for the house 19 00:01:10,822 --> 00:01:12,832 and didn't have to worry about anything. 20 00:01:13,066 --> 00:01:18,124 She said, "you can come with me and work with me in restaurant. 21 00:01:18,464 --> 00:01:20,574 I have restaurant. I pay you a lot of money." 22 00:01:20,574 --> 00:01:24,886 I thought it was a great opportunity to come over here and work in the US. 23 00:01:24,886 --> 00:01:28,976 Because everyone in the Philippines, like when they heard America, 24 00:01:28,976 --> 00:01:31,176 they wanna go- they wanna come here. 25 00:01:31,536 --> 00:01:34,836 (Music) 26 00:01:34,909 --> 00:01:37,606 I wasn't able to talk to anybody. 27 00:01:37,606 --> 00:01:40,206 I was forbidden to put one step out of the shop. 28 00:01:40,292 --> 00:01:43,442 We sleep on the floor. Yes. 29 00:01:43,980 --> 00:01:47,280 I feel numb because I don't know what do, 30 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:48,850 I don't know how to do it. 31 00:01:49,044 --> 00:01:51,254 I had to work 17 hours a day, 32 00:01:51,364 --> 00:01:53,234 seve- seven days a week. 33 00:01:53,633 --> 00:01:56,043 I wasn't able to talk to my co-workers. 34 00:01:56,043 --> 00:01:58,987 Sometime I feel like I wanna kill myself 35 00:01:59,098 --> 00:02:03,098 because it was to painful like it's really 36 00:02:03,556 --> 00:02:07,556 it's really like hurt- it's- it's really 37 00:02:07,607 --> 00:02:11,427 like, you know, hurtful how you see- 38 00:02:11,427 --> 00:02:13,864 how you see, um, treat me. 39 00:02:13,864 --> 00:02:19,371 (Music) 40 00:02:19,372 --> 00:02:20,412 I don't know. 41 00:02:20,412 --> 00:02:24,443 (Music) 42 00:02:24,454 --> 00:02:27,324 Where am I gonna go. I don't have anyone. 43 00:02:27,324 --> 00:02:32,554 I don't have any money even though she promise me to pay me 44 00:02:32,554 --> 00:02:36,904 like 150 dollars a month but I did not get that money. 45 00:02:37,057 --> 00:02:38,805 My trafficker often said 46 00:02:38,805 --> 00:02:43,264 that dogs have more rights, in the United States, than I did. 47 00:02:43,264 --> 00:02:46,867 She said: "if I kill a dog, I would get in trouble 48 00:02:46,867 --> 00:02:49,480 but if I kill you, nobody is going to know 49 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:50,886 and nobody is going to care." 50 00:02:50,886 --> 00:02:53,756 She took my passport. I can't go. 51 00:02:56,706 --> 00:02:58,045 I feel afraid. 52 00:02:58,908 --> 00:03:00,798 Because I don't know where to go. 53 00:03:02,623 --> 00:03:05,696 No passport how can I go back to Thailand. 54 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,850 Yeah. I- I don't know- 55 00:03:12,850 --> 00:03:14,270 I don't know how to go. 56 00:03:14,508 --> 00:03:16,488 I don't know friend. No friend. 57 00:03:16,511 --> 00:03:19,151 Just friendly with in- in her house. 58 00:03:20,140 --> 00:03:22,644 The trafficker said, if I tell anybody 59 00:03:22,644 --> 00:03:25,617 what was going on, nobody will believe me. 60 00:03:26,097 --> 00:03:27,474 And if I go to the police, 61 00:03:27,474 --> 00:03:29,184 they will not believe me. 62 00:03:29,184 --> 00:03:33,207 They will put me in jail and she knew where my children were 63 00:03:33,207 --> 00:03:35,399 and I didn't want to risk my children. 64 00:03:35,399 --> 00:03:39,849 What she always said that you can't go nowhere. 65 00:03:40,509 --> 00:03:41,516 You belong to me. 66 00:03:42,542 --> 00:03:45,552 [MUSIC] 67 00:03:45,555 --> 00:03:49,355 The day that I was escape, umm, 68 00:03:49,355 --> 00:03:52,625 the woman who helped me, like took me to CAST 69 00:03:52,625 --> 00:03:56,465 the same day and uh, since then CAST help me a lot 70 00:03:56,465 --> 00:04:03,106 with, you know, shelter, with food, with money, 71 00:04:03,106 --> 00:04:06,846 whit anything that I need to get on my feet. 72 00:04:06,846 --> 00:04:11,356 They brought you like who was gonna help you to talk or interpreter. 73 00:04:11,756 --> 00:04:13,236 Like if you need something. 74 00:04:13,317 --> 00:04:15,827 For the blanket, for the clothes, 75 00:04:15,867 --> 00:04:17,347 they give me a lot. 76 00:04:17,862 --> 00:04:18,902 (Laughter) 77 00:04:19,095 --> 00:04:21,725 Encouraging me to do something like 78 00:04:21,725 --> 00:04:24,195 encouraging me like to go to school. 79 00:04:24,319 --> 00:04:26,669 And the CAST help you to know your right. 80 00:04:26,848 --> 00:04:31,418 And they- they make me very strong and independent person. 81 00:04:31,460 --> 00:04:35,810 CAST open door for me. CAST take me at Alexandra House. 82 00:04:36,655 --> 00:04:41,105 CAST take me school, now I speak English a little bit. 83 00:04:41,325 --> 00:04:45,510 CAST has helped me through everything. 84 00:04:45,755 --> 00:04:49,135 (Music) 85 00:04:49,137 --> 00:04:51,910 When I spoke like with the congressman 86 00:04:51,910 --> 00:04:55,117 or with senator like when we went to Washington DC. 87 00:04:55,467 --> 00:04:58,347 I feel like am very important person. 88 00:04:58,506 --> 00:05:03,011 We went to Sacramento and we got the regulations pass. 89 00:05:03,011 --> 00:05:08,116 So now, thanks to the green card campaign, we are, uh, green card holders. 90 00:05:08,116 --> 00:05:11,876 I want to be the voice of, um, the fixer 91 00:05:11,876 --> 00:05:14,926 because I know how it feels to be in that situation. 92 00:05:15,207 --> 00:05:18,454 In this country, you know, people has a voice, 93 00:05:18,454 --> 00:05:21,702 no matter who you are, even though you are a slave. 94 00:05:21,768 --> 00:05:27,368 We all know we've been enslaved and now we survived. 95 00:05:27,573 --> 00:05:30,813 Even though we passed like, 96 00:05:30,813 --> 00:05:33,573 but we always talk about that and we're still sharing. 97 00:05:33,683 --> 00:05:37,263 (Music) 98 00:05:37,353 --> 00:05:41,353 Free it's, uh, it means a lot to me. 99 00:05:41,856 --> 00:05:45,446 Like when you're free, when you became a free, 100 00:05:45,446 --> 00:05:48,916 it feels like you're a new born child. 101 00:05:49,616 --> 00:05:52,746 Freedom for me is really special thing for me 102 00:05:52,746 --> 00:05:55,936 because I never have freedom in my life. 103 00:05:56,194 --> 00:06:01,134 When I was free, I was scared but I was so happy. 104 00:06:01,288 --> 00:06:04,418 I'm happy now because I have everything. 105 00:06:04,418 --> 00:06:06,158 I go to school. I have job. 106 00:06:06,331 --> 00:06:08,571 I have green card. I have everything. 107 00:06:08,598 --> 00:06:09,668 I'm happy. 108 00:06:09,786 --> 00:06:13,456 Yes, I love freedom. Anybody love freedom. 109 00:06:14,378 --> 00:06:19,828 I am proud of myself. I was a slave and now I'm survivor, 110 00:06:20,308 --> 00:06:24,121 I'm activist and I'm a mother. 111 00:06:25,525 --> 00:06:28,215 Freedom is everything to me. 112 00:06:28,283 --> 00:06:32,743 This is, you know, everyone deserve to have a freedom. It's free. 113 00:06:32,772 --> 00:06:35,511 I wanna be part of it. 114 00:06:35,511 --> 00:06:38,098 I wanna be part of the mission to end slavery. 115 00:06:38,098 --> 00:06:44,595 I wanna be part of the making of the history of end slavery for good. 116 00:06:45,101 --> 00:06:49,521 And the CAST help me become an independent, 117 00:06:50,651 --> 00:06:52,660 become like a real man. 118 00:06:59,439 --> 00:07:03,131 At CAST we have the previlege of working directly with victims, 119 00:07:03,741 --> 00:07:08,999 who then transform and become survivors after going through our critical programs. 120 00:07:09,498 --> 00:07:13,808 And that's important because we are able to use those experiences 121 00:07:13,928 --> 00:07:18,808 and help survivors become leaders and powerful agents of change 122 00:07:19,258 --> 00:07:21,728 to impact systemic social change. 123 00:07:22,121 --> 00:07:24,961 Who better to inform us how to end modern day slavery 124 00:07:24,961 --> 00:07:27,281 than survivors themselves. 125 00:07:27,488 --> 00:07:31,388 When survivors tell us they're now happy, 126 00:07:31,801 --> 00:07:33,911 we know we've done our job at CAST.