by Ben Randall | Jan 8, 2015
What has, for you, been the most fascinating moment of The Human, Earth Project? Was it amongst those moments when at last I succeeded in contacting, locating and meeting with my trafficked Hmong friends P and M in China? Was it the moment when, after three years and...
by Ben Randall | Dec 31, 2014
For those of you who haven’t been following the adventures of The Human, Earth Project through 2014, it’s been an incredible year. Here are a few of the most memorable moments: The year began with Hmong friends in Laos. Days later, my trafficked Hmong...
by Ben Randall | Dec 28, 2014
On Christmas Eve, just as many of you were beginning your holidays, I was going back to work in the mountains of northern Vietnam. Although Vietnam lies within the tropics, winter here in the mountains can be bitterly cold, as I experienced during my initial...
by Ben Randall | Dec 11, 2014
Kim neung con bo sep. That’s a Laotian phrase I encountered recently, which was translated for me as: When you eat alone, it’s not delicious. For the past five months I’ve been working alone. I’ve had zero face-to-face contact with my...
by Ben Randall | Nov 30, 2014
One month ago, I was concerned I’d become too deeply entangled in the life of my Hmong friend P, a recent survivor of human trafficking. I couldn’t see how to step away. After we’d returned from our road trip, and the violent stalker Lucky Charm had...
