SOLD: Human Trafficking in Kenya

Poverty, greed, social customs, and human cruelty combined put families at risk for trafficking all over the world. As the fastest growing criminal industry, human trafficking is present in every country; resulting in an estimated  50 million people globally according to the International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Walk Free. Their joint report, the "Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage," published in 2022, provides this figure.

The series followers a single mother of two small children living in Nairobi's Kibera slum. Sophie was trafficked by someone she thought was a friend.  Desperate to find work, she traveled with this friend on the promise of a job working as a housekeeper. "I remember feeling excited to interview and potentially start a new job. I boarded a bus and took the 4-hour drive to Mombasa.  When I arrived, I was forced to work as a sex worker."  The woman who offered her the job drove her to a house surrounded by barbed wire. Guards carrying guns and dogs ensured she and other woman like her could not escape. One year later she was able to escape when a male client helped her. June, 2017 Nairobi, Kenya.