LOS ANGELES—Former caregiver Angela Guanzon, 36, recalled her two-year nightmare at a home for the elderly in Long Beach, California, where she worked in slave-like conditions.
“I worked 18 hours a day, with very little pay, and slept on the floor,” said Guanzon, one of the Filipino victims of labor trafficking who joined the 3.2-kilometer “Walk 4 Freedom” in Los Angeles on Saturday.
“I was threatened when I complained and when I tried to escape,” she said. Holding a placard that read, “Human Trafficking: Don’t Let It Happen to You,” Guanzon urged other victims to come out of the shadows and get help.
She is now a survivor-organizer for the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), a non-profit organization that provided her with shelter and legal assistance.
Guanzon was one of about 40 Filipino “modern-day slaves” helped by CAST in the Greater Los Angeles Area alone. (ABS-CBNnews)
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