“I was kidnapped. My family don't know where I am.” 

She comes from Eritrea and is just 14 years old. A victim of sexual trafficking, she was taken against her will to Libya. In 2021, she shared her story with us. Today, Betiel, an Eritrean actor of the same age, has given her words a voice and a face. Hers is one of 400 stories about the dangerous search for refuge, selected from hundreds of stories shared with us by refugees in Libya and aboard search and rescue vessels on the Mediterranean Sea over the past decade. The 400 artworks and six videos, all created by artists and actors from refugee or migrant backgrounds, bring alive the faceless statistics around people seeking safety and pay tribute to their resilience and enduring human spirit.