Free at last!
Published January 22, 2023
Just a short boat ride away from the Butterfly Schools in The Gambia lies the former slave island of St. James Island—or Kunta Kinte, as it is called today, named after the slave of the same name who became world-famous through the TV series *Roots*.
From here and further up the coast, many millions of people were transported as slaves across the Atlantic to the New World.
Slavery has long since been abolished, but even today there are perhaps as many as 50 million people living in slavery, the majority of whom are women and children.
Butterfly Friends’ goal is to provide the descendants of Kunta Kinte with a better future by giving the children a good education
