oli was raised by his grandparents in a loving home in Ghana several hours from the largest man-made lake in the world: Lake Volta. They wanted to send him to school, but simply couldn’t afford his school fees, so Foli stayed home.

One day, his grandfather was struck by a car, and medical expenses quickly began to pile up.

It was then that a relative who lived near Lake Volta visited and offered to take Foli in. His grandparents believed he would simply go from one loving home to another.

Foli arrived at his new home on a remote island on Lake Volta with no school or medical facilities.

Foli didn’t know it at the time, but he had just become a slave.