After opening her first centre in Kenya, two mothers came to Becky Murray, founder and CEO of OnebyOne, in tears because their daughters had gone missing.
At first, Becky began praying for them, but after a while, she started investigating the matter. She went into local schools, asked questions, listened carefully, and paid attention to a pattern she noticed.
The girls started disappearing when they got their periods and traffickers were targeting them by offering sanitary pads, and that was how many of the girls were being lured and trafficked.
In our conversation, Becky talks about the heartbreaking link between period poverty and human trafficking.
A sanitary pad.
That was the thin line standing between some of these girls and the traffickers waiting outside school gates. Something so basic and so easily overlooked.
She created the Dignity Project, which is a prevention programme that combined menstrual health support with anti-trafficking education. The goal was to reach girls before the traffickers did. To equip them with knowledge, dignity, and the tools to recognise deception before it was too late. And importantly, to provide them with sanitary pads before traffickers could use that need as a weapon.
And human trafficking is not just an African problem, it’s a world problem.
It is happening in the United States.
It is happening in the United Kingdom.
It is happening across Europe.
I sat down with Becky Murray in this episode, founder and CEO of One By One, a global charity dedicated to ending the exploitation of vulnerable people around the world. Becky is also the author of Embrace the Journey and the longest-serving female presenter on TBN UK. She has stood in the halls of 10 Downing Street, the Houses of Parliament in London, and the White House in Washington, DC, representing the children and women her organization fights for every single day.
I have not been the same since recording this conversation, and I genuinely believe this is an episode everyone should listen to.
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With love,
Mo
