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.
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Nanjala, a single mother of two, Left Kenya for Dubai in 2018 after struggling financially to provide for herself and the youngest child. Through a community member, she was referred to an employment agency which secured a job for her in Dubai as a domestic worker.
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Alice* is a single mother of two. She migrated to Lebanon as a domestic worker in 2019 after a relative approached and introduced her to a recruitment agency which promised a job in Lebanon. It was the first time going out of the country but even with the lack of experience, she was excited to take the risk as she was the breadwinner in her family and lacked employment.
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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.
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