there are more than 1000 sex workers in makeni.ease the impact of the pandemic. and the risks they face have not diminished. many, like this were men, children to provide for and no man around to help. she shows me the injuries she says were inflicted on her by a client. a few weeks later, when i go back to see how she is doing, she has disappeared. two months passed with no word from her. hello. then, out of the blue, she gets in touch. from a number in mali. it appears she and another sex worker were taken by a trafficking gang. she says they were trafficked even further, to mali. they were abandoned in a small mining village. we have been shown a location on our�*s drive from this town. we organised their rescue. the international organisation for migration, a un body which aids trafficked people, organised their return to sierra leone. we are all here ready. their parents are outside waiting for their daughters. they can't wait. it's a joy, you know. it's a celebration for me in my mind and my heart because i was not thinking i

there are more than 1,000 sex workers in makeni.e shows me the injuries she says were inflicted on her by a client. a few weeks later, when i go back to see how she is doing, she has disappeared. two months pass with no word from her. hello. then, out of the blue, she gets in touch. from a number in mali. it appears she and another sex worker were taken by a trafficking gang. she says they were trafficked even further, to mali. they were abandoned in a small mining village. we have been shown a location on hour's drive from kenieba. the international organisation for migration, a un body which aids trafficked people, organised their return to sierra leone. we are all here ready. their parents are outside waiting for their daughters. they can't wait. it's a joy, you know. it's a celebration for me in my mind and my heart because i was not thinking it was going to turn out this way. we are happy that these girls are finally coming back. these lives that we almost lost, we regained them. today, the mothers have their daughters and the