Ellen Bruex
Portage, Michigan
Art student, Kendall College of Art & Design
I’m riding for women like Ammani.* She and her husband were held as slaves in a rice mill, with an owner so brutal he refused to let her leave the facility to give birth – so she delivered her baby on the concrete floor of the mill. But that first day of the baby’s life, the family was freed in an IJM operation in collaboration with local authorities. That baby is going to grow up in freedom….but there more mothers and more children still trapped, and that’s why I’m giving Five Weeks for Freedom.
