I am currently in touch with a young Ugandan woman whose names I cannot divulge here because she is behind “enemy lines” in Saudi Arabia. This young woman’s first employment was to a cruel employer who wanted to include other services such as having sex with him. She managed to flee the home and report the matter to the responsible authorities in Riyadh. Fortunately, they found her a job with another family.
I agreed to be her security response in case anything happened to her. She managed to take photographs of her employers’ passport profile pages that I have in my custody in case she gets in danger. Last week, however, she received information of other Ugandans and Africans who are enslaved in Saudi Arabia.
She told me that there is a young woman who went to Saudi Arabia with intentions of staying for a year but has been there for six years now without pay; her documents burnt by her employer, raped many times, penniless and hopeless. She also knows of an Ethiopian lady who has lost her mind.
What options do we have to try and help Ugandans and other Africans enslaved in Saudi Arabian homes?
Edgar Etyang,
edgaretyangh@gmail.com
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