Re-Trafficked: A Story of Hope and Resurrection

Rwandan-American Esperance (Hope)  Uwayirege-Taylor has an phenomenal story: a genocide survivor,  a young child in a refugee camp, suffering forced labor and sex-trafficking as a teenager in Congo, and again as a young professional trafficked to America, where she escaped to more abuse in Alabama’s shelter system.

With 50,000,000 people experiencing slavery in this century, this powerful narrative will tell the story of a woman who survived the three Rwandan genocides, was trafficked from east Africa,  became the victim of an American professor who used her unpaid labor as his investigative journalist, interviewer and translator to advance his career.

Brought to the US with false promises, she was stripped of identification, psychologically terrorized, forced into heavy labor, channeled into menial jobs, denied access to earnings, books, media or English.  Paraded at conferences as a genocide victim, she felt voiceless.   

Her enlightenment to her enslavement and her miraculous escape left her in a series of Alabama shelters, where she was again abused and used as unpaid labor.  Esperance’s growing awareness and desire to tell her story led her to teach herself English, researching her country’s past and the crisis of human trafficking in the US. 

Her passion to create a narrative story about her experiences gave her the courage to revisit  past traumas and led her to enlist the help of poet/creative writing teacher, Laura Secord and a  journalist, Beth Shelburne, with special experience in guiding the traumatized to share heavy, complicated experiences.  

Through the Re-Trafficking collaboration, we aim to create a book that gives a face to the anti- trafficking dialogue.

We have reached a point where we are ready to go live, and are in need of funding to complete this important project. 
The funding we seek will compensate our writers and transcriptionists, pay for travel to Rwanda,  assist with marketing and public speaking engagements.

We promise frequent updates, audio and video, as well as great expressions of appreciation.

Your financial support can help make our goal a reality.  This story is bigger than Esperance.  It will give hope to millions of invisible people who live under the conditions of modern-day slavery today.

To read more, including Chapter 1,  on the Re-Trafficked website  follow this link:

 www.re-trafficked.com