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 introduce themselves to you how i rule a tell everybody. I am literally i am the Strategic Program coordinator of the international the west the corkers federation which represents over 560000. 00 the most the clickers around the world. Good to have you hello bunchy fleas archbishop elgin are. Remains firm heard there and not enough. And a b. K. Is good to have you on this train tell everybody what you do why you in this conversation. Thank you femi thank you my sisters are mad because debra im the chairman i just didnt ask for a commission a new agency of government set up to look at issues affecting the jazz in the diaspora 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 that consulate this is the kenyan cause thats how we started 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 they were in a terrible carnage on the want to come back home you know if a lot of theories about the video for me is about this guys calling me saying help was want to get out of here and what 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 sense 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 when 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 last back how do you give them hope of a bit more now proud of the lebanon goes we had received a lot of people from libya who had been trapped in the biz on our president s 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 have been a case of i want to walk and get 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 at our jail. Even before we get to that situation. In Beirut Lebanon rula can you explain what happened to the Domestic Workers. Are 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. 191 Domestic Workers are being treated 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 bungee bunchy im just showing the tweet here what happened to African Leaders ignoring us outside of the kenyan in nigeria 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 ministers of course he are very are as they are our group. Are now over 300 and really were. Concerned i got. On they were being served. On the street and also who are are. So. Sure they were like. This in the us or an arm in arm and a struggle and. Until yesterday. Recently there are. More and also. The nigerian again. So the colonel and some of them you are going to. Only. Assume they are awaiting. An. Election. And the problem thats not just because a financial crisis is not because of. The explosion this crying list overseer it was already. This is some of the problems not yet but a bug exists and its not just our country let me just but let me just put this city because i know you have a lot of notes but i actually want you to to speak to our audience 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 you know have to jump into the comments and try and weave them through the show its on to jefferson says very simply peace. How these women get home munchie how does that happen where. Because of the current. System then even if we are really wealthy lets say i was our organization. In a secret. But they dont have their. Legal documents because. They dont report that they are real or are. And so there is no rule. Change some very nice government here while example i was. 7 years 9 years ago and still are sick or not i worked for 7 years then the irony or world i still thats the last time i saw a passport so or 7 years i never saw my password even i read the canard and i hope. I never saw my ass or so or 300000 of them sick or her and my do you know of them you know how they. Are and know ill be on your holy land so when the exploitation already or when the financial crisis and everything nationality one american. Worker i. Know we are. Many so this is not our whole i dont. Even move. The process of. Who we are in this. And this is not just our. Own are also in this. I k i he 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 but you bring in a new voice into a conversation he says diem had 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 migrants were where left homeless or severely affected mainly. But even before they saw the region. On the margins. Since the economic crisis 90. Its an easy number of migrants break. Out homes or jobs and no ensure it we must all come together join our troops and mobilize resources to make sure mind is. Heinz. These troops and asked. And their voices need to be heard. In the last. Rula a spank with us thank you for joining back again im wondering about the lebanese government how active are they how aware are they that the kafala 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 theyre Domestic Workers in the 1st place. Absolutely so the lebanese government benefits from the labor of the must the quirkier is tremendously from the care work and the labor that they put in because the mustique 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 when his government has resigned after popular protests due to the explosion and protests have been ongoing since october due to the economic crisis and larger issues also the entire population at large is experiencing and this government is not delivering and services to the population at large and furthermore during the relief. The relief has been dated 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 of 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 this 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 economically a carriage but receive nothing and exchange despite lifting the entire economy on their books ok im going to play that video that you mentioned which was a cry for help from one jerry and Domestic Workers who are stuck in lebanon is have a look at the good morning our government believes we are pleading for you we are guys 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 want to do this i just want to please we need to have we need to have our government our past those are our fans our he was these we need your help you know you lose your children you will not cry over your children please act as we have to get back to me to displace already. For you the regret right there let me let me share this one from you chip 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 goes up back with random bag and when they came back they were x. Tactic without us thinking and thats announces the reglan to be home one of them said to me i 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 staff 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 abuse that 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 this guys come back weve often venturas opportunities for the kind of work but when a jobs need to be provided the ghost of a disk i 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 the behalf so one thing is the trust because i need to be known the image of being shamed and exposed that is very important in this battle. Because i can just leave my home government here. Absolutely 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 look over here you can see the celebration people are happy they are seriously how am back in nigeria and let me just click through 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 lets go ahead. 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 bach 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 in 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 Work visas but that is out of a times of this chorus that is an awful back and a sense that theyre saying that the economic crisis is influenced by the remittances that these women are sending back home 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 abided by labor laws. Talking about. The. Whatever national. Or international crisis. And we were encouraged on each. Other 19. We are a model even though you are a certain segment. Of the not so who are those who are suffering and. How can i say nurses are not so there are no and even. Think you are not me and arent. So since the financial crisis i have only a few government. People in there. So i think. How hundreds or thousands of them as it were and also and also and course hour or so of course who are. Just a person who can start and things your parents. Were. There are so i earned more. Than a certain amount of not just. All the worker and that. Crane. So own our organization yet bunky i guess you 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. Migron true is easily 100 years from now. So that. The Street Corner success in terms of the service the lebanese government has. Given the process of providing experience and their home countries to issue an. Additional year or. 2 are there are documented citizens and you have. To go over the costs. And strains. And years category for this series more. Remains to be anybody. 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 and is of about the lower range and shuttle flight once we get enough passages and theres a charge is a charge discharge 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 kids who are living on the streets in lebanon right now but which is to have. Well when i say there are women on the street and there and say how. Do you know. Your im irish. So they dont have and i have to meet. Her. And i am too. So in government 700. Dollars per person and 800. 00. Good Nic Robertson earns 100. Euro this is. A mass later. And also. You know government doesnt give the receive 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 that and other many too like. They are. Now talking responsibly or they are and because we are an organisation like governments and. 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 keen on community 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 you 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 back monday sure 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 street i left that place we came here to the embassy and the women are just being left by their employers here theres no bathroom or any. So thats where we are right now governments are aware of this topic they know this issue and we will see what happens next thank you very much and thank you for guess all of us at b. K. Thank you very much for being part of the show and of course punchy we really appreciate your take and your stories and the cheap thats a thing in the program as well we always appreciate the stuff thats not said of the strange. 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