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Trafficking survivors are at risk of losing their only lifeline.

The sudden halt to US foreign aid funding is sending shockwaves through vulnerable communities in Southeast Asia. Anti-trafficking organizations are being forced to cut back, leaving people trapped in slavery and survivors struggling to rebuild their lives without support.

“Since I got back home, whenever I hear dogs barking, I get terrified because it reminds me of the sound of guns.”

When Hong was 15 years old, someone she thought was her friend offered her a job in Hanoi. Seeing it as a chance to lift her family out of crushing poverty, Hong accepted.

But there was no job in Hanoi. Instead, Hong’s friend trafficked her to a brothel in Myanmar. Over the course of two terrifying years, she was sold and resold to several violent brothels throughout active warzones.

The sound of guns rang out from both the ongoing civil war and from the criminals running the brothels where Hong was enslaved. At each new brothel, Hong’s captors beat and tortured her as they tried to break her spirit.

Hong never fully gave up hope. One day when she found a phone, she reached out to her family. Her parents informed the police, who in turn referred her case to Blue Dragon.

Blue Dragon will not turn our back on people like Hong. We refuse to abandon those who need us most. But with a major source of funding frozen, we are now at risk of scaling back our work—just when traffickers are ready to exploit this crisis.

We will not let that happen. And we need you to take a stand with us.

To read the full Wired article, click here: https://tinyurl.com/bdhw37bu

To read the full The Guardian article, click here: https://tinyurl.com/5n93yvdt

To read the full ABC article, click here: https://tinyurl.com/3kbjxtem