Julia had been “robbed” by her boyfriend/husband at the age of 14 and promptly taken to the United States to begin a new life.

Maude is a 32-year-old Central Asian woman who came to our big city with her two small children to join her husband. After arriving, she learned her husband had taken another wife.

It wasn’t until Fatim called her mom from the bus station in Dakar that we knew she was safe.

From the age of five, Vero lived alone in the central plaza of Guadalajara, Mexico. She tells of finding a big tree in the plaza that she made into a little resting place to get out of the blazing sun.