Ron thought the few years spent on Thai waters would have been worth it for his family. Little did he know, that ship would never return home.“I only learned that I was trafficked when I was in the middle of the ocean. The Thai captain told me that I was sold.”

Esther* grew up in rural Ghana, hours from the waters of Lake Volta. But when a woman approached her parents, claiming there was a family near the lake who would send their daughter to school, they allowed the woman to take her. The promise of an education was a lie. Little Esther was enslaved when she was just six years old.