Shyima Hall, Date of Birth

    

Shyima Hall

activist working against people-trafficing

Date of Birth: 29-Sep-1989

Profession: activist

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Shyima Hall

  • Shyima Hall (born September 29, 1989), from South Alexandria, Egypt, is known for advocating against human trafficking by sharing her personal experiences as a child slave.
  • At eight years old, she was sold into slavery by her parents to a rich family in Cairo.
  • Hall was given to the family in order to repay her older sister's debt of about thirty dollars.
  • She worked for Abdel Nasser Eid Youssef and Amal Admed Ewis-Abd El Motelib for two years among other slaves.
  • The family moved to Irvine, California where Hall was forced to live in a small room in the family's garage and do chores for the parents and their three children.
  • A neighbor reported their suspicions to child protective services.
  • In 2002, immigration officers came into her captors' home and took her away.
  • She was put into foster care and lived with three foster families until she was 18.
  • In 2014, she and Lisa Wysocky published Hidden Girl, which detailed her childhood as a slave.
  • She now lives in Banning, California with her boyfriend and four-year-old daughter, advocating against human trafficking by sharing her story of captivity and rescue.

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