I cried today. Amazing that the trip is almost over and this is the first situation that brought me to tears.

Vida was rescued in 2010 after she had been trafficked to a village in the Volta region and was employed by a fisherman’s wife. After being abandoned by her husband and suffering from a health problems, her mother had sold her. Vita had been attending school since her rehabilitation despite issues between herself and her mother, and Breaking the Chain had rented her family a new home for 2 years to help them get back on their feet. She lives with her mother, sister and young niece in a 2 room house.

When we went to her home today, she was not in school and did not appear to be in good spirits. She broke down and cried when she told us she could not keep up with the class and stopped going to school about a month ago. She did not want to go back to school and her dreams of becoming a nurse had disappeared. We are working to try to find resolve the situation by possibly removing her from her home and finding a new school situation, possibly a vocational school. Heartbreaking.