On March 8, on the occasion of International Women's Day, Loman Art hosted the opening of the exhibition **"Painting the Silence: Stories of Disability and Trafficking"**, organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office for West and Central Africa, the Regional Office for West Africa of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Handicap association. For this exhibition, nine artists members of Handicap.sn, give to see and hear, through their works, the stories of trafficking and disability of which they are, or others are victims. Bakary Diakité depicts the story of a *Princess* forced into prostitution by her aunt. Khady Pouye portrays a young disabled girl whose mother forces her to beg to support her family. Mane Ndiaye shows the *broken innocence* of a child, also forced to beg by his mother. Boun Oumar Ndiaye denounces the fate of a child forced to work by his uncle. Nafi Diatta lifts the veil on forced marriage and prostitution. Souleymane recounts his childhood when he was forced to beg. Khady Touré sheds *tears from her heart* and denounces forced and early marriage in Senegal. Mamadou Barre recounts his experience as a talibé child forced to beg. Ndary Gueye takes us into the *Dance of Freedom* of Coumba, who was forced to beg by her mother but who braved all obstacles to become a dancer.