PART 1 : Trapped in Arabia: The True Story of a Kenyan Girl’s Painful Journey Through Human Trafficking and Her Miraculous Escape

The Departure : She boarded a plane full of dreams… unaware it was flying straight into a nightmare.

By Purpose In The Shadows

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Halima’s dream was simple.

To lift her family out of poverty. To build her mother a stone house. To ensure her siblings never had to drop out of school like she did.

So when an agent told her about a housemaid job in Saudi Arabia, her heart leaped.

“Forty thousand shillings a month,” the woman promised, her voice syrupy. “Free housing. Free meals. Just cook and clean. You’ll be rich in two years.”

It sounded like a golden ticket. Halima, barely nineteen, had spent the last year hawking second-hand clothes in Kibuye Market, dodging boda boda traffic and men who stared too long. Her father had died suddenly of a stroke. Her mother, a casual laborer, had begun coughing blood. Bills were choking the family.

She had to say yes.

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The Paper That Stole Her Freedom

The contract was in English, laced with complex words. The agent flipped through it quickly. “Just sign here,” she said, tapping the bottom. “We’ve already filled everything…