By Lori Zimmer, Source: Ecouterre

One Saks Fifth Avenue shopper got more than she bargained for, when a hand written note fell out of her shopping bag. The note was written in 2012 by Tohnain Emmanuel Njong, a prisoner in a Chinese facility who was being forced to make shopping bags. Njong’s letter was a plea for help, saying that he and other inmates were forced to make bags in the prison factory for over 13 hours a day.

Stephanie Wilson went on an ordinary shopping trip to Saks in Manhattan, picking up a pair of Hunter rain boots. But when Wilson got back to her West Harlem apartment, she saw a piece of paper slip out of her shopping bag. Along with the handwritten note was a color passport photo of a man in an orange jacket, presumably Tohnain Emmanuel Njong.

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