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Maid in Hell (Documentary) ⎜WHY SLAVERY?
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[Music] foreign
has been described as modern day slavery
it ties workers to their employers they
can't change jobs or leave the country
without their boss's permission the
moment you land your passport is taken away
away
Saudi Arabia have come to light 24 Nails
hammered into our hands and forehead by
her Saudi employers the Kenyan
government has suspended export of
domestic workers with immediate effects
Philippines Nepal and Ethiopia have
banned their citizens from Lebanon
although many are so desperate they find
really [Music]
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I'm recruiting housekeeper to Lebanon 12
years already
it's in my blood [Applause]
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but they did not and they did not travel
but do you know why they were stars
because they are traveling illegally now
it's illegal illegal
2006 until now we are paying money for
the immigration under the table
by Visa by everything it's legal in
Lebanon but they're traveling from
marive she come to our house sure she's
afraid we don't know her and she don't
know us
after two three months she have the key
of the home and she can do everything in
the house but the passport is with us why
why
if you are traveling to work you are
traveling to earn money you are
traveling to say yes for your employers
you treat them in a human way but there
is respect and there is red lines they
cannot pass
that's what the critics say is wrong
with the system can you follow that it's
wrong with this system that's what the
critics say
I don't think there is a human rights in
this world
no way
maybe in Europe but not in the Middle East
I will not stop this business because
I'm helping myself and I'm helping the
girls who go to the Middle East we have
girls from Tanzania Uganda Philippines
we have girls from all over the world
and they don't go there as refugees
they go there
I went to work in the UAE as a nanny
and I used to see how domestic workers
not allowed to go home
they were sexually abused some of them
were wrapped
it was inhuman
and the day I was sworn in as a senator
Sasa now Lisa is
this is my firstborn Diana
my second bone wrote
my third born Naomi and this is my
I did not decide to go to the Middle
East I had no choice
by that time my husband had no job
I had children to feel
so that was the only option
if you get a good family you are lucky
but I cannot advise anybody
to work in the Middle East
that is the last place Kenyan women
a family here in Nairobi is mourning
their kin who died in Jordan the body of
another Kenyan was flown into the
country from Saudi Arabia beaten
tortured others sexually assaulted a
plea for Help by a group of Kenyan women
and it's not just Saudi Arabia it's the
gulf in most of these countries if you
walk in the streets without legal
I was to come and work in a restaurant
only to my surprise that I came and got
myself in the house you told me that
you'll be working eight hours per day
five days in a week and every month they
will pay you 400 dollars if you ask me
for the passport even I never saw it at
the first time I arrived I never saw it again
again
how many hours did you work a day
almost uh 18 hours
I woke up from 6 30 in the morning
and I work until 11.
non-stop so they did not pay me the
first month the second month then in the
lunch month I asked them why you don't
try to pay me she paid the money no
nothing no money no money no wages no
I called the agent I told him about the
situation and he told me you came here
to work not to play I I tried to explain
to him I yes I came to work but the
condition there the life I'm going
there is many agency in Lebanon not
working in a legal way
you are not dealing with scars you are
not dealing with an object you are
we as agency we should be in the middle
to give advice this employer and with
how old are you
at all 22
22 um
um foreign
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this failed you cannot trust everyone
because there is no law man
no law
let's say Middle East governments they
don't respect the law and also
everything and all the world is looking
for money
the poor she need money and the agency
need money
I cannot get all the profit that I
should get
from Lebanon it's not enough for me I
should work in the other for the other countries
countries
that's why I'm trying to make my
business bigger than this
and because I have the connection with
agencies in the African countries
God gave me a good one [Music]
they are targeting the poor families
illiterate girls
when they are recruiting domestic
workers there is no requirements
what they need is just a passport
so this is the only job these girls can get
thank you
she left here when she was okay
she went to Southeast for four years
she was admitted in a hospital
she was just dumped
and when she reached here she could not
speak to that she's not speaking they
if you cannot manage to create job
opportunities let us go to Saudia and
I don't think Kenyan government done
we must stop this
as women from this country we must stop this
the governments of Kenya and Saudi
Arabia are working on a memorandum of
understanding to ensure that Kenyan
workers are well protected in Saudi Arabia
Arabia
Kenya and Saudi Arabia continue to enjoy
long-standing warm and friendly
relations the Royal Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia has given more than 15 billion
U.S dollars in the last four decades the
two countries are working on a framework
and on labor regulations that the
Ambassador said will be signing
something soon
but at least to correct the impression
I've met many Kenyan workers some from
my uncle cities we've lived there many
years and I've been working and
right now we have our Kenyan girl who
you
they're with me
you are suppose you will go through the
so we just want to see the girl only the girl
Maria h
this is when they arrived at the airport
all the way from Jordan to here Seated
on a wheelchair
no the world has come to know what is happening
happening
as a mother as a leader I will not stand
I will not sit and watch this kind of shit
shit
we are not animals
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Fulani
mama
foreign [Music]
I love you imagine
hard worker um
foreign [Laughter]
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and here you should know something the
way that we talk it's not that we are shouting
shouting
you should not be afraid from anything
we talk in a higher voice okay but for
me every month we'll take your salary
you like to hold you have to hold in the
bank otherwise you have to transfer it
for your family don't talk with the
employer please okay I have two babies
one by one girl I have to build some
nice house give them better education
that's the reason I'm just staying here
don't set your money complete for your
kids okay save some money for you you
can buy land and you can build the house
as you want okay so don't be worried you
are welcome here and you have a good
choice that you have Mr Youssef is one
you must call it that really thank you
I appreciate it thank you very much and
you too also so beautiful really thank you
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can you explain in detail what happened
foreign [Music]
did you notify the family in Kenya of
hello
Twitter yes Peter
I'm calling some children yes thank you
and tomorrow after midnight she will be
in the airport okay I will send you the
ticket for Maria
do we need an ambulance tomorrow
do we need an ambulance emergency car
no you can take care without ambulance
don't drop them and how is she now
she's good she can talk she can move
she was hiding the truth she actually
didn't want us to know
how Maria has been banned so we thought
that it was just
some few buns we didn't know that he was
serious because she said Maria can walk
so they were trying to get rid of Mary
and the only thing to do it was to tell lies
lies [Music]
just leave your things here because she
will come back later and no one will
touch your things because okay
okay
yeah let's go
sometimes the girl should come over from
her country
and she's pregnant or if she's sick
this is a big problem [Music]
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we give them the medical test in a
private medical center
and after this if she's fine they send
for pregnancy pdrl and hemoglobin
and two tests for kidney and two tests
for liver functions [Music]
by the grace of God I have been around
very safely
I don't know much about him but this is
my first time
when you come don't seize the phone
so there is no needable for us to bring
the food but how are you going to keep
in contact with your family that is the
main big problem that I have right now
because I don't know because
these are normal we have no problem with
them these are good the circles there's
yes foreign
these people they are cleaning our dirty thing
thing
they should not be ashamed
they should be happy [Music]
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whatever is the work you should be proud
but me step by step I'm bigger and bigger
bigger
and then it was five agencies in Jordan
that's our applicant
five of them they arrived yesterday in
the night and then we have our friend
what do you know about what you're going
in
you know what you will do I work here in
children what your work engineering
doctor housemates
you know your job that's the question
you what's your problem I am not
told by my employer
to make two pieces of medicine given to
her mom that's only the mistake I have
you give extra medicine for her mom yeah
we will find here another employer and
she will start a new contract
what's your name please
Diana what's your problem [Music]
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she have attacked from genie that's what
she said
and she started to dance she can't
I don't believe ghost but in the end the
you just can't remember what happened
in this case in Jordan we sent her back home
this our boarding house is temporary
stationed for one night and then they
will go to the Empire
this orbit room they take the mattress
in the night and they put it back this
is our kitchen set off [Music]
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and this little stop this news to be outside
outside
why do you have the camera
we have the camera because we Face a few
problems before some applicants they
fight to each other
in the home they don't know how to use
the gas
we must record for them safety
and outside
my friends come here please
no wire inside just in Florida you got
it this costs three dollars each one
thank you
I couldn't remember what Mary told me
when I visited her to the hospital
she cried
and Mary told me that I don't think if I
will make it [Music]
to me it was
so sad
but
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I think they need to be pushed
when you follow something you have to
push them every day every day every day
[Music] what
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in Kenya Mary
what have you done to compensate her family
family
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isn't it your responsibility to get the
now I'm looking for an apartment because
I'm 31 years old already and I should
have my home
but also I'm looking for a wife that she
can be like how my mother should treat me
me
she should be pretty girl
not more ugly than me
I don't want Hollywood smile but I want
Laila she arrived Saturday
she's waiting until her employer will
come back from Dubai
the employer is rich [Laughter]
was 2010.
I stayed for five years in one employer
the first three months keep on crying
but this time just because I really need
to do this for my future so I need to be
brief enough
and if she have any problems you will go
do you have children
I have one son how old is he seven years
old sir
he don't he doesn't know that I'm going
back Lebanon but for me it's better not
to tell him because I know what he feels
because he preferred me to stay in Philippines
Philippines
they will travel they don't have any problem
problem
this is what they do
right yes as long as you will have money
thank you
I was in a situation that I don't know
even what to explain
I was left in the house with a mister
and he came where I was sleeping and he
told me I want you and I told him no I
can't I'm married
and he told me you're in my house you
have to obey my my my roles in this
house I was in the my bathroom then he
came and
opened the door because the doors didn't
have the key to lock he saw and he still
insisted to came inside when he came
inside and I shout
he got out I was shaking and he was just
laughing that time I I didn't take
anything I just walked out and ran away
I was I was feeling so down and that I
was fed up I can't take it anymore then
I took my bed sheets I had three bed
sheets I tied them
and I used I used them to get them to go
down what floor washes on how how high
that floor third floor yes wait weren't
you scared it I was scared but because
of what I'm going through I just it was
I decided even if I die it's better than two
two
quadrill what I was going through
I was feeling confused even I was
wishing I would die
because it was a hard experience never
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thank you [Music]
space attempts in which migrant women
choose to jump of buildings razor then
continue working in abuse
they make us non-davids in this report really
really
but every one week too
jump why there is a swimming pool down
in our office okay from 20 years until
we never had it
we never had it we have runaways yes but
we never have any problem like this if
you are bad they will not come over
I don't know if I feel excited because
it's my first time to see my employer
I know I'm strong woman
is good man she will be good in her work
everything will be good with her
does it affect you to hear her story
I'm a human in the end and I have heart
but me I'm helping her that she was earning
earning
me I'm doing something to help her and
also I'm earning
this is the politics of the world man I
am stronger than you I will destroy you
there is people they are high they have
people that they are working under them
and these people that they are poor they
have also work people that they are
working for them nothing will change I think
of Jordan is in Nairobi to meet
president Uhuru Kenyatta as the two
countries look to improve trade
relations that have remained strained
following a ban on the exploitation of
domestic workers Saudi Arabia has also
retaliated its commitment to fund
development projects in Kenya to
that the agreement of recruitment of
domestic workers
was successfully signed Saudi Arabia is
committed to supporting development in
I don't understand how we are going to
tackle this issue whether someone is
going to die whether it's going to be
killed whether it's going to be maim
this none of their business
it's a cartel
Kenyan government
Saudi Arabia knows Jordan knows so it is known
known
and it will not stop
this is a business it's just like drugs
it cannot stop [Music]
what about Mary the girl who was banned
and died at Kenyatta Hospital whoever
you know that thing that case was
contentious Senator ah so however do you
believe that [Laughter]
[Laughter]
you know the problem with you you did
not even go and interrogate that girl
so that is a one Side Story did you hear
from Mary herself
and I got a report from my mission yeah
that is a report but did you listen to Mary
Mary
you did not then how do you believe
those people
those are people from Jordan did you
listen to your own daughter Mary is our
and you see the guy is laughing as if
and they're making so much money out of it
I feel that I have failed and I feel
that the government have failed and
that's the truth
I'm a leader people are complaining to
you you cannot help them you you feel useless
useless
you feel like you cannot perform your
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analism [Applause]
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