Domestic workers protesting outside of the kenyan consulate in Beirut Lebanon chanting we want to go home after the beirut explosion with the 200 people who were left thousands homeless and amongst those thousands Domestic Workers some of them were abandoned by their employers and so now were in a situation where theyre living. On the streets have no money and ill try that is a story today on the street. Im going to say hello to the guest the guests who introduced themselves to you how i rule a tell everybody who. I am literally i am the Strategic Program coordinator of the international the must the quercus federation which represents over 560000 the most the clickers around the world. Good to have you hello bunchy alvin are. Learned and are not enough. And it became a is good to have you on the string tell everybody what you do why do you in this conversation. Thank you for me thank you my sisters are mad because deborah im the chairman my just in Diaspora Commission a new agency of government set up to look at issues affecting the germs in the gas and i have been at the airport receiving our Domestic Workers back home so im glad to be part of this conversation because we see those images of Domestic Workers outside of the consulate this is the kenyan culture thats how we started to show what is your 1st thought when you see that happening overseas. Well we had a video of nigerians who you know put out a statement out there that the way the terrible carnage and the want to come back home you know if i let up there is about a video for me is about this guys calling me saying help was want to get out of here and while we did before the bomb blast before it will corona we have to bring about our goals and we have the support of the lebanese government as i speak with with you today with broadband almost 600 goes from lebanon another center become in the last question because many in next week this coming week so for me when i saw those girls as a broken girls where you see them on the airport talking to them they were broken they were shattered and what we meant to do as women as a community as a society is now that they have back how do you get the less back how do you give them hope of a better tomorrow now proud of the lebanon goes we had received a lot of people from libya who had been trapped in the area based on our president instructions we got them all back home and even discuss what we did what that what what can you do where you give back what you do and i like to say that some of them is going to piss off you know what theres always theres always a future so we have to help those guys to ensure that their future is no broken and we have to stop abuse of Domestic Workers going abroad to watch not be such a challenge not be a disaster should not be so terrible it should not to be a case of i want to walk i got a job so the world is the come together to ensure that particularly we stop all this i believe that it illegal immigration become legal illegal migration chemical little if everything even digital am kayo ill. Even before we get to that situation. In Beirut Lebanon rula can you explain what happened to the Domestic Workers. Now some of them sleeping on the streets can you give us some context. Since the very beginning whenever Domestic Workers come to lebanon they do not find themselves protected by any form of law because lebanon did not sign International Conventions that would protect those rights and under the national law it does not include Migrant Workers so when they find themselves under a file a system which is arabic for sponsorship or guardianship or treaty which treats them as if they did not have the autonomy or the responsibility over themselves and eyes unto one employer which is a drastic excuse for abuse of power and this has been the status quo or the economic crisis that has devalued that for over 70 percent in the past few months and with the 191. 00 Domestic Workers are being true were going to come back to. There are sort of rolling blackouts in beirut right now so well come back to rula let me just pick up with bunchy bunchy im just showing the tweet here what happened to African Leaders ignoring us outside of the canyon in niger and if you can embassies in the concept of a 270 Domestic Workers what is happening on the streets are people literally living on the streets here. Yeah. Harrison you so much for. The very last they are our group. Are now over 300 and really were. Concerned i got. On they were being served a dance on the street also. So. There. They were like. This in the us from an arm in arm and a struggle and. Until yesterday. Recently there are. More and also. The nigerian man again. So her and and some of them you are going to. Only assume they are waiting. And when i can see. The gnashing. And the problem its not just because a friendship crisis is not because of. The explosion this crying. Was already. More. This is problems not yet a bug in the sense that you are confronting me just but let me just put this into because i know you have a lot of notes but i actually want you to to speak to how it is because you have experienced this this is been your experience as well you were a Domestic Worker so Sandra Jefferson on you to thank you each youve been part of this conversation now have to jump into the comments and try and weave them through the show its on to jefferson says very simply please. How these women get home munchie how does not happen where. Because of the current. System even if we really want to kill lets see i was our organization we just saw her in a secret. But you know. There are legal documents because. The men are reported they are your eyes. And so there is no more i want to. Change some very nice government here while example i was. 7 years when you should go and see the risk or not i want for 70 years then the irony or world as the last the last time i saw it was so or 7 years i never saw my password even i read the canard and i. Must say i never saw my ass for so or 300000 times because her and my do you know of them you know how they. Are and know ill be on your holy land so when they exploit here already or when the financial crisis and everything nationality then american. Workers. Know what we are. Many so this is not our oh i made you even move. The process of. Who we are in this. And this is not just. Its own are also in this. I k i hae bunchy this is not how idea when we were discussing this at the beginning of the show is how do people become trapped in lebanon Domestic Workers become trapped in lebanon want to bring in a new voice into our conversation this is deemed that shes a Program Officer at the International Organization for migration and she just sent some the and its in the perfect storm of unfortunate circumstances that were seeing right now is have a listen to. We know that thousands of Migrant Workers where left homeless or severely affected basically. But even before they see the region. Where i mean on the margins. Since the economic crisis 90. N. E. V. Number of migrants break. Out homes or jobs on the way forward we must all come together join our troops and mobilize resources to make sure mind is. Hines. Towards an answer. And their voices need to be heard. In the last. Rula a spank with us thank you for don back again im wondering about the lebanese government how active are they how aware are they that the file a system is not actually helping Vulnerable Women vulnerable to messed up workers who are coming into lebanon and they really need money which is why their Domestic Work is in the fast like its. Absolutely so the lebanese government benefits from the labor of the must the corkers tremendously from the care work and the labor that they put in because the must take work is the work that makes all other forms of work possible meaning that the government was able to benefit historically and for decades from these women so it is interested and having a filesystem because it is at the minimal cost doesnt oblige employers to implement any form of job protection or security it is very wishy washy there are very few ways that one can supervise whether these women are getting any forms of access to rights or services at all and its pretty much at the whim of the lawyer the lebanese government has resigned after popular protests due to the explosion and protests have been ongoing since oct due to the economic crisis and larger issues also the entire population at large is experiencing and this government is not delivering and his services to the population at large and furthermore during the relief. The relief has been stated by acts of racism whereby to access food or food parcels or clothing or even. Sometimes the organizations that work on rebuilding the houses that have suffered from the explosion of that were destroyed that is also not necessarily accessible to migrants and migrant a must a quirk ors so even the relief has been tainted by racism because Domestic Workers are systematically discriminate. Against an invisible ised that values and missing people the lists that names the missing people are also lacking they are incomplete because the names of the migrant Domestic Workers are not on there and this is no coincidence theres also speaks to the systematic racism and xenophobia and structural barriers that are put on women due to their gender due to their migrations that is due to their racialized bodies and the way that they benefit the system economic iack large but receive nothing and exchange despite lifting the entire economy on their box ok i want to play that video that you mentioned which was a cry for help from one gerry and Domestic Workers who are stuck in yemen and is have a look at the good morning our government believes we are pleading for we are gas from lebanon we are stranded please all of us that we are sitting here we are asking opinion this immunity we are kicking off would in fact is i disagree we are keeping everything we want to do is i just want to please we need to have we need to have our government our past those are our fans our human eggs these we need your help you know you lose your children you will not cry over your children please act was asking i did get them to get me to displace already. For you the regret right there let me let me share this one from you tube and we put this question to you from a and dumpy thank you for watching and up your other efforts to discover African Women from going to countries like lebanon for Domestic Work. If i can come in here for me 1st thing the good thing is those girls are back with random bag and when they came back they were ecstatic without us thinking and dancin and says the regulars of the home are one of them said to me ill rather be a pet a traitor than you know go back to lebanon or any other part of the world so were glad that were there to bring them back thats just on gus talk in lebanon welcome to the lebanese ambassador and my job and were going to get everybody back but what we dont want to see happen is more goes to him back we dont want more goes there back when this ones are back and lebanon has stopped issuing domestic walk visas that we have agreed with lebanon so no more want business for domestic stuff in lebanon and in more on that everything is sorted out so were glad that this goes that back and what i want to say is that they can follow our system needs to be discouraged totally discourages abusive is exploitative and also not be in that kind of condition that was better when it does go said to me they knew what they were going to that they would not have gone they were not of god if they knew the situation there wasnt going to so African Women the men that were there was the awareness in the african countries we need leadership we agree absolutely that some are going out of desperation for jobs jumped into the provided when these guys come back weve often venturas opportunities for the kind of work but when a jobs need to be provided the goals are to be just cant trust a kid most important is a bit discouraged now the film was 2000. 00 to even one of those trips so if you have that kind of money why dont you set up a Small Business that grew up wrote the painful read the actual just picked somebody is collecting money on their behalf and i tell they get to lebanon they didnt get anything because the agent has collected money of their behalf so one thing is the trust because i need to be known image of being shamed and exposed that is very important in this battle. Because i can just leave my home government here. Absolutely really and what im going to show is youre speaking is the nigerian girls and women coming back to nigeria i looked at it on your Instagram Page have a have a look over here you can see that celebration people are happy they are seriously how am back in nigeria and let me just click for just a little bit more here so this was one of the evacuations the rescue missions here and of course not forgetting were in this time of ovitz so this may be one reason why governments are not acting as fast as they could be because how many flights are going but was of fords around the world not that many so that was the end of that particular story really always want to take a head. To build off what has been said a lot of women come and they are already in that bondage because the money that they acquire in order to be able to pay off the agents to come over to countries weather and love and honor and other parts of the world mean that once theyre back they would have to repay that money back to their family and their friends and sometimes it increases the risks that they would be facing so even though a lot of migrant Domestic Workers now are saying evacuate now we will go and our clothes that they quit the things that we were in without any luggage we just want to return home their return needs to be ensured and safety and that needs to be attended to a 2nd point is that some countries have taken drastic measures and the past whereby they forbid migrant Domestic Workers from traveling to lebanon because of the catholicism and the injustice that these workers face but what happens frequently is that it would backfire because women come from 3rd countries which means that they come illegally and become illegal in the eyes of their country of origin and as well this country of destination so there needs to be a lot of my inaugural work happening to demolish the cafe the system and also to attend to the needs of these women so while the recruitment process and before and after arrival because lebanon now is stopping issuing Domestic Worker visas but that is out of a times of this or is that isnt a fall back in the sense that theyre saying that the economic crisis is influenced by the remittances that these women are sending back and these remittances are nothing and a lot of women and their countries of origin rely on this kind of money and the Job Opportunities should ideally be if able for them its just that they should be if they lable with a job security is with insurance their basic and human rights as well when they do this so the jobs are not nationalized necessarily but just more accessible and abide by labor laws. 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So own our organization yet bunky i just just as we getting to the end of the program i want to push through just a little bit beyond the basket that we live in with the consequences of the plans particular for domestic Migrant Workers and that is what action needs to happen let me play this to you this is a not and maher shes an advocacy manager at the Anti Racism Movement in lebanon and i would really love to hear what actually you feel needs happen right away its just as in a festival. Michael intrusively high street is from him so that. The Street Corner success in terms of their venture the lebanese government has learned. That the process of providing experience and their home countries to issue an. Additional year. To are there are documented citizens and you have. To cover the costs. And strains. And years category for this series more. Remains to be in the eightys so ice i hear that and i see that and then im looking at the Ethiopian AirlinesFacebook Page and it says to customers we are registering passengers who are ready to travel to addis ababa the range and ship to a flight once we get enough passages and theres a charge is a charge just a charge for the ticket theres a charge for quarantine and these markets are living on the streets right now that to me is is is that i was shocked to see that bunchy if you could work out what you would need to do today to help the women in the workers the cancer living on the streets in lebanon right now what would you say. Well when i say there are women on the street and theyre and so how. Do you know. Like 3 to 6. Your might. So they dont have an absolute need. To. Tell so in the government 700. 00. Dollars per person and 800. 00. Then Nic Robertson earns 100. And also. You know government doesnt give the receiver so and now even if. They dont even have. Been struggling to buy. Wire. They dont even have any in the king of her so and i see all the. Government need to like. Now to think responsibly on the on. Because we are an organisation like governments and i think its not just or in the. Course you know or national station and government they need to wake up underneath. Its not really enough you know i wasnt thinking or. You know arent enough and they dont even know how many for what and could. Let me leave it allows english to hear with hannah who is stuck right now in lebanon. And i want to hear her story because maybe on this platform of the governments of the ngos may well be out to help lets have a listen the one. Thats out of which im bad about monday sure but i havent been paid for 2 games i dont have work i worked for 6 months and stopped for 6 months my employer used to torture me at home and they threw me over a story i left that place we came here to the embassy and the women are just being left by their employees here theres no bathroom or any. So thats where we are right now governments. Aware of this topic they know if this issue and we will see what happens next thank you very much thank you for i guess all of that yes abby kate thank you very much for being part of the show and of course punk she would really appreciate your take and well stories i mean thats a thing in the program as well we always appreciate he said. That his side of the space. Business leaders just want to find a brass pot. Business leaders want to find a bra spot. 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