Print this report 🖨 PREVENTING ABUSE Juna and Her Daughter Are Reunited "She is blossoming at home." More than 800 children have been freed from servitude and reunited with their families. A few years ago Juna was in a very difficult situation. She had no reliable income and her children were hungry. When a family member offered to provide a better life for her daughter Rose, Juna agreed to let Rose go to live with them. But at her new home, things didn't go well for Rose. She woke up early to carry water and spent the days caring for the other children in the house with no time to study or play. Rose's new guardians only let her eat the leftovers of the food that she herself had cooked. Rose was forced to wear the same rags every day and deliver gifts of clothes and shoes to other children in the neighborhood. She was miserable. "Rose has never told me everything that happened there," lamented Juna. One day, Juna received a call from a different family member telling her that Rose was being abused. Because Juna had recently joined one of Beyond Borders' sixmonth Child Rights Trainings, she had somewhere to turn for help. Members of the Child Protection Brigade provided funds so that Juna could travel and bring her daughter home. "Rose was always an outgoing child. She would sing at the top of her voice and dance. But when I brought her home, she was quiet and shy," Juna recalled. "Now a year later she is opening up again and I see her beginning to blossom." Not long after she brought Rose home, Juna joined Beyond Borders' Family Graduation Program. In 24 months the program equips parents like Juna with the skills and resources they need to begin earning their own money so that they can lift themselves out of extreme poverty. Juna graduated from the program last year and now things are looking up for her and her children. Rose says her favorite things to do at home are watch funny videos while lying on the bed with her mom or play cards with her siblings. She is...