In Lao Cai, Vietnam, a girl was preparing to go to college and earn her education when her life was changed. Lan was drugged up, knocked out and smuggled all the way to china to be sold into marriage. Chinese men will pay good money for a wife in China and it's very sickening and sad because the women have no say in the matter. Lan was meeting up with a group of friends for dinner that night when she was taken away.
The strip of villages that Lan lives in are often searched for "eligible" brides. Sadly, a huge amount of human trafficking takes place in the Vietnamese villages. The vietnamese police are sometimes able to retrieve the captured girls once they are taken away from the country. Human trafficking is a huge issues in countries like this and it's sad women are forced into it everyday.
-Emily Taylor
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