Hey, friends. Today's episode is brought to you in partnership with IJM International Justice

Mission is the largest anti-slavery organization in the world. They work to rescue people out of

slavery and trafficking and walk with survivors until they were stored and thriving in freedom.

Eddie, you also work there. I do get to work there and I get to hear and be a part of just some of

these incredible stories. I wanted to share with you all one of the stories of Kofi who actually,

I don't think I got to meet Kofi. I'm not sure when I was in Ghana with I don't think so with Esther's

story I may have, but the story with Kofi is, I mean if you've heard Esther at all, it's

eerily similar. So Kofi's eight years old and his father died because money was tight and his

mother sent him to this man named Efo because there was this promise of a better life and school

and money and all the things that she hoped for for her child, but that was not the case. As Kofi

ended up being one of the thousands of boys and girls that are trapped on Lake Volta in Ghana's

fishing industry and as a slave, Kofi would wake up very early in the morning to fish and really do

hard, hard, hard labor all day long. And after two years of doing this, I think that he had lost hope,

the family had lost hope and really his childhood was lost. But then of course the supporters and

the work and the people of IJM intervened and now Kofi, here you tell the good part. I want you to

tell the good part. Well, I just love that IJM partners with the local, with local authorities

and the local police and the IJM staff rescued him and nine other boys and now he lives at a shelter

with other children where he can be a kid. Again, he loves school and when he grows up, he wants to be

a lawyer, a doctor or a professional football player like every nine-year-old kid that I know.

Right. And just to be clear with soccer that he would be offended that we thought for a second,

it was American football. Sure. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Soccer is a much better game.

Kofi is safe and free to dream about his future, no matter which football he wants to play.

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