<p><strong>50 million people are trapped in modern slavery today. To meet the UN&#39;s 2030 eradication goal, we would need to free 10,000 people every single day for the next decade.</strong></p><p>In the UK alone, over 23,000 potential victims were referred to authorities in 2025 a 22% increase and the highest number ever recorded. Across Africa, 7 million people live in modern slavery, with children accounting for a devastating 62% of identified victims.</p><p>This is not a history lesson. It is happening right now.</p><p>In this episode of <em>Discovering Africa Through Technology</em>, host Raziah Quallatein Mwawanga sits down with <strong>Jillian Alexander </strong>a scholar with five degrees across sociology, human rights, criminology, and law who left the boardroom for the frontlines. Starting as a volunteer walking alongside survivors, Jillian built something radically different: <strong>Unbound Organisation</strong>, a coaching-led, strengths-based, tech-enabled social enterprise designed not to rescue people, but to unlock their own power to rebuild.</p><p>We explore the five pillars of the Unbound framework Unlock, Unlearn, Unfold, Uplift, and Unbound and ask: <em>How does technology help a survivor move from trauma to autonomy?</em></p><p>We also issue a challenge. The UK&#39;s Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner warns that criminals now use AI and digital platforms to &quot;recruit, groom and control victims at scale.&quot; If technology is being weaponised to trap people, then technology must be part of the solution to set them free.</p><p><strong>This episode is a call to the builders:</strong> developers, business owners, policymakers, and investors. Not pity. Partnership.</p><p>As Archbishop Desmond Tutu said: <em>&quot;If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.&quot;</em></p><p><strong>Discovering Africa Through Technology</strong>  cutting through the noise to celebrate the visionaries building solutions from the ground up.</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/discoverafrdatt/</p><p>[email protected]</p><p><br></p>