Welcome back to Essential Oil Solutions with Dotaura. This week, as we celebrate Thanksgiving and have

gratitude and giving on our minds, we're excited to highlight some of the organizations that our Dota Healing Hands Foundation has partnered with.

During our annual global convention in September, we had the incredible chance to sit down with Stephanie Freed,

co-founder and CEO of Rafa House, a nonprofit that is an international aftercare program for children who have been

rescued from slavery and sexual exploitation. Stephanie, we are so glad that we're able to sit down

with you today to talk about Rafa House and the incredible work you're doing. Can you tell us a little bit about how Rafa House started? Yeah, so that's a big,

that's a big story, but I'll give you the nutshell version of that. My father actually had spent

quite a bit of time in Southeast Asia back around 2000, 2001, 2002,

and he was doing a lot of leadership training with leaders in different villages.

And he actually encountered a case of human trafficking take place.

And he came home with a story.

And he shared this story.

I'll never forget it.

It was around our dinner table.

And at the time, I had two very little girls running around the house.

And he's sharing the story of modern day slavery and sharing a story of a young woman whose parents had sold her for about $200.

And the thing that really stood out in the story was that these village leaders were telling him

that this was epidemically happening throughout their villages and that they really felt powerless to do

anything about it, that especially girls were disappearing. At that time, it was mostly for sex work,

but they were disappearing under false pretenses, as though there were a wonderful job waiting for

them somewhere. Then these families were looking for their daughters.

Some of the times the daughters would return home with terrible diseases,

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