Partnering with International Justice Mission, against modern day slavery.

Damru and Hemanthi thought luck was on their side when they were offered well-paying jobs at a poultry farm. However, they soon realized the good job was a lie. They were allowed to keep their clothes and mobile phones but were immediately put to work scrubbing bird droppings from the floors and walls, all while their baby son lay nearby. The farm owner vaguely promised to build their living quarters later.

'But it never happened,' Hemanthi says. 'We were forced to live inside the coop.'

When Damru and Hemanthi were done feeding, watering and disinfecting all 6,000 chickens on the farm every day, they were constantly worried about their son. With toxic chemicals surrounding them, little Durga regularly suffered from diarrhea, colds, coughs and skin allergies.

When it came time for bed, the family slept in a run-down barn with thousands of chickens. They arranged plastic sacks to keep from sleeping on the wet, rotten ground.

Scorpions and snakes would move near the family while they slept. Hemanthi remembers, 'I used to put my son in between sacks of chicken feed to protect him from getting bitten by them. Every night we used to go to sleep not knowing if we will wake up the next morning.'

Two IJM informants trained to spot signs of trafficking found out about the families plight and sent IJM and government officials to rescue them. 

Today, if you were to meet Damru and Hemanthi, you would meet two brave, resilient people. Free from slavery. Free to raise their child in peace.

Join us at ENOUGH on the 15th November to pray against the evil of modern day slavery and to pray for the work of IJM across the world.