By james art 
When he lived in India, Samer Jain admired America and still does now when he lived in Talahasi. But his admiration for the country was one of the baits his former traffic used to enslave him.
Jain is now serving in the National Advisory Council for human trafficking and works with the Talahassi Survival and Flowering Center, hoping to release others. To celebrate the national month of human trafficking awareness, Jain shared his story with WFSU.
“I was on the other side of the world as a normal human being who could not understand that I could be traffic,” he says. I am a man with white collars. I can understand and speak English. I know the language. I’m educated, a graduate, so this thing never hits me. “
But he was traffic. Jain was a manager at an IT company with offices in India and the US, which the employer offered to pay to the United States and provide housing and health insurance, which makes this offer for several years until Jain accepts.
What Jain wants to know is that traffic is related to vulnerability. His vulnerability was his son, who had health problems that were getting worse by pollution in New Delhi.
So, Jain came to Kansas. After arriving, everything changed. His employer has put him on a double obligation, working on his laptop while watching a restaurant. He had no weekends. He didn’t pay for months. His employer, who received his visa, threatened to cancel her. Then his cousin came to visit him and smelled of a rat – but Jain’s fear would not lose his visa, which was silent.
“He said, ‘Who works these long hours? You do not receive pay, “and all these things.” Jane says. “I would not reveal because of fear.”
Then his traffic raised Anteto.
“At one point, the employer told me,” Hey, I have you here and I spend tons of money for you. You have to return me now. And I said, “I have no money. I work and I don’t pay me. How do I pay you? He said, “It doesn’t matter. I need money now. “
Finally, he told his cousin the truth.
“And then he set out a plan. He came to Kansas and talks to my employer. “I’ll find him a job at Talahassi and then he can pay you. How about it? And this man was greedy, “says Jain,” and he said, “Yes. Just pay me.”
Jain thought he had no choice but to return to India. He called him his cousin because he left the country anyway, to act to prevent others from winding in the same situation.
“At least make sure no other person can suffer,” his cousin said.
So, Jain complained to the US Department of Labor. He was linked to the Center for the Development of Human Rights of the State University in Florida, where Vanya Aguilar connected him to the Center for Intercession for Survival and Flowering. He cannot say enough about how much the organization helped him and his family.
And now his son is graduating from his bachelor’s degree at Florida State University.
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The events of this week from the intercession center for survival and flourishing:
Imagine freedom 2025
https://surviveandthiveadvocacy.org/events/if2025/
Funding event: planting seeds and deep roots
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Center for stage arts TNL
1533 South Monroe St. Unit C. Tallahassee, fl. 32301
17:30 – 19:00
https://surviveandthiveadvocacy.org/events/human-trafficking-commy-conversation-leon-county/
Join us on Thursday, January 30th for the conversation of Leon County County for Traffic of Human
1533 S. Monroe St., Unit C, Tallahassee, Florida 32301
17:30 – 19:00