FTS Film Spreads Word about Slavery throughout Africa
The film’s name is short and straightforward: Hatuko Watumwa, Swahili for We Are Not Slaves. It’s a half-hour fictionalization of how vulnerable villagers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo fall into slavery at mines – at what they can do to escape.
FTS and our front-line partner organizations have been screening Hatuko Watumwa in Congo’s mining regions for more than a year. Now, the film is being shown throughout Africa by the U.S. State Department, which funded its read more >