Life after returning home from Gulf countries is not easy for many migrant domestic workers. Often they face a lot of stigma and financial precarity.
Stories of return: Mary rebuilds her life through enterpreneurship Read More »
In our latest blog, we reflect on the efforts by migrant domestic workers to demand better for themselves. We extend our solidarity and recognise that domestic workers do not need us to be their voices but rather need more of our support and resources to advocate and organise themselves with impact.
International Women’s Day 2023: Our Reflections Read More »
01 May is International Workers Day also known as Labour Day for celebrating workers and workers’ rights particularly those in wage labour across the globe in various countries including Kenya. For Kenyan Migrant Workers and in particular Migrant domestic workers (MDWs), the struggle for basic labour rights and social protections in Middle Eastern countries continues.
This Labour Day there is still a long way to go to protect Kenyan Migrant Workers abroad Read More »
Domestic work is constituted as being unique, low skilled, low status and situated in the private borders of the home beyond the reach of legal reforms because it is gendered work.
16 days of activism against Gender based violence is an annual international campaign that begins on the 25th November and ends on 10th December and is used by activists to call for the end of violence against women globally.
Withholding of wages and passport confiscation are common problems that Migrant domestic workers encounter in Middle East. Jane shares her story.
I was not paid for the first three months when I arrived in Lebanon Read More »
Mercy* (not her real name) was part of the group of migrant workers protesting outside the consulate in Beirut asking the Kenyan government to repatriate them. She says they camped and waited outside the consulate for weeks until wellwishers came to their aid.
I would not advise any Kenyan to go to Gulf countries for domestic work Read More »