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Podcast: Wahaala Boys
Episode: EP15: Treatment of African house helps in the Middle East is the same as back home
Description: The maltreatment of African house helps in the Middle East has caused a lot of outrage among most Africans and rightly so but we at Wahaala wanted to shed light on the plight of our local house helps or maids. The stories you hear from our Cameroonian and Ghanaian sisters who went to Kuwait, Jordan and some other middle eastern countries is just sad. From tales of rape, physical abuse and forced imprisonment, these women suffer a lot on the hands of their employees but are their struggles and experiences very different from the maids back in their countries? Anyway...