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How lack of awareness, poverty exposes jobless Kenyans to human trafficking

When the moderator at the recently marked African Day Celebrations asked some youth in attendance to explain what they understood by human trafficking, the fumbled responses elicited laughter from other participants.

The bewildered faces of the panelists and other attendants at the event organized by African Rising organisation illustrated their shock that the phrase was nothing but a vocabulary to the young persons. The meaning was distant from them yet they were potential victims of the illegal transit of people from one place to another.

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