How did the numbers of migrant domestic workers coming to or staying regularly in Lebanon change over the past 5 years under the effects of the economic collapse and the Covid-19 pandemics? A comparative view in numbers.
The soap-making classes are one of the many initiatives launched by “Egna Legna”. While bonding in a safe-space, the project aims at empowering women with useful skills that will enable them to be self-supporting on return home.
What exactly is the Kafala System? Why don’t migrant domestic workers benefit from the Lebanese Law of Labor? How can this system come to an end or be reformed? The answers of a Lebanese lawyer and human rights activist.
Mariam jumped through the window of her employer’s house, saving herself from sexual harassment. Navigating the hardships of undocumented work, she started building an initiative to break the cycle of an unjust system.
Tsigereda and Dagafetch came from Ethiopia to deceived promises of work in Lebanon. Thrown into a place where nothing seemed to protect them from abuse, they became part of an initiative launched by migrant domestic workers and for them.
Coming from Ethiopia, Massracha worked in two houses in Lebanon. Her journey was long in a country where nothing protected her from exploitation and abuse. Today, with other migrant domestic workers, she is building the safe space and creating the help she couldn’t find years ago.
Covid-19, an economic crisis, an explosion that destroyed half of the city and the “Kafala system” that puts you, unprotected, at the mercy of your employer. This is the journey of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon and their fight for justice and self-empowerment.
كيف تغيرت أعداد العاملات المنزليات المهاجرات، الوافدات منهنّ أو المقيمات في لبنان، على مدى السنوات الخمس الأخيرة تحت تأثير الأزمة الاقتصادية وانتشار جائحة كورونا؟ نظرة مقارَنة بالأرقام.
لقد وعدوكِ بعمل جيد في لبنان، فقررتِ خوض المغامرة على أمل إعالة عائلتك وتوفير بعض المال. ولكن، ماذا تفعلين عندما تكتشفين زيف الوعود بعد وصولكِ إلى البلد الجديد؟
قفزت مريم من نافذة بيت كفيلها في محاولة لإنقاذ نفسها من التحرش الجنسي الذي كانت تتعرض له. بعد أن خاضت كل صنوف المصاعب المتعلقة بالعمل بشكل غير قانوني في لبنان، قامت بتأسيس مبادرة تهدف إلى كسر الحلقة المفرغة لهذا النظام غير العادل.
