Mende Nazer is a bright and friendly young woman, but the sometimes troubled look in her eyes betrays a traumatic past: when she was 12, raiders kidnapped her from her village in southern Sudan and she was forced into domestic slavery, first in Khartoum and then with a Sudanese family in London.
After years of misery, she escaped and found help from friends but remains frightened. "I still don't feel safe," she says. "My fear is that they will try to capture me again, although I know it's not really possible. My first hope is to see my family again and my second is to become a nurse."
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