In the Gulf 99% of Kenyan migrant workers are abused, a poll finds
But they keep coming because wages are better than at home
What does Rebecca Nakabiito hope for as she prepares to leave Uganda for the first time? “To be treated as a human,” she says softly. “I don’t want them to treat me as a slave.” Like thousands of others she is heading for Saudi Arabia, to work as a maid. A friend who travelled before her was scalded with hot water as punishment for oversleeping. She will go anyway. There are school fees to pay.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The ones who sweep”
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