Young African Woman Talks About How She Survived Human Trafficking
Saturday, January 25, 2025
“In Africa, the tradition is when your elder tells you to do something you don't ask questions. You just follow whatever they tell you and you say OK,” Adamma explained. “Adamma” remembers the day she landed in the United States after being taken from her native country of Togo: “It was January 25, 2006, at 3:55 (p.m.). That was the worst day of my life.” Having landed in Detroit in the middle of winter, Adamma and the three other children from Togo she traveled with were not prepared: “We didn’t have boots or coats. It was so cold. No one really told us we should have all these prior to coming,” she said. What she also wasn’t prepared for was the physical and emotional abuse, the extreme rationing of food and the isolation. Adamma left Togo for the U.S. with little information as to why she was going. It started... Read more →