This week our Riverside Branch Director sat down to counsel a woman who recently escaped a life of exploitation and joined Starfish Project. Just months ago she left the only life she had ever known and stepped into freedom. Throughout that process she battled, really fought, with fears that she couldn’t learn, fears that she would just end up back where she began, yet she bravely decided to hope anyways. As COVID-19 hit Asia our offices were required to close for our own “shelter in place” orders and her fears seemed to ring true.