5.05.2017

Lisa Kristine: Photos that bear witness to modern slavery

TEDxMaui 2012
Lisa Kristine: Photos that bear witness to modern slavery (script)
Summary
Slavery is illegal everywhere in the world. There is a law against it though slavery still exists everywhere but many people in the world don't know or they just don't see it. It's all around us but it's  not changed since a long time ago.
At an illegal mine, men work to break stones in a deep hole but they never go home.
At brick kilns, men, women, and even children carry heavy bricks over for 16 or 17 hours a day, of course, without any pay. They can't walk away.
Sex trafficking, even they are children, occurs around you. In restraints, textile industries, and fishing villages, there are people who are enslaved. The speaker shines a light on slavery and continues taking photos of them with awe to be found by Fee the Slaves which is an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern day slavery and us. Crying, giving them money or helping directly will have them in a worse situation. When only Fee the Slaves find them, they can change their lives. She thinks that her photos are bearing witness to modern slavery and their dream that they become free will come true.
Words in this story
witness /  observer, onlooker, eyewitness
restraints /  control, moderation, prudence

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