“I don’t know what will happen here, but there’s no work back home.”Prado is one of an estimated 250,000 foreign domestic workers living in Lebanon. An average of two domestic workers die every week, including from suicide, though many are never investigated. During the financial crisis, which started in 2019, families who could no longer afford to pay their domestic workers discarded them outside their respective embassies or consulates. As long as the workers are under contract, they are the responsibility of the host family, the Alliance of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon told Al Jazeera. Prado, of the Alliance of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon, said she is going about her days as normal for the moment.

Source: Ethiopian News October 18, 2023 15:05 UTC