A Tanzanian charity is giving hope to trafficked children forced into domestic servitude.
Mercy Esther was eight years old when she left home. Raised by her grandmother in rural Tanzania, Mercy Esther and her siblings were born into poverty, sometimes without money for food, let alone schoolbooks. When their grandmother was approached with a job offer for Mercy Esther in Kenya, and the promise that money would be sent home, she accepted. The money could help Mercy Esther’s siblings. They might have a better future.
It’s an issue that’s close to her heart; she is herself a former domestic worker. “I faced abuse and exploitation, but I was able to speak out,” she explains. “Many domestic workers, they can’t speak out. Who is going to speak them?” “I’m using my story to tell them, ‘Don’t give up.’” WoteSawa means “all are equal” in Swahili. At the shelter children are housed and provided with counseling and legal support.
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