‘Thrown out like used washing machines’: Lebanon’s migrant workers bear brunt of displacement crisis
Charity workers and volunteers left to deal with thousands of people who have no work or money, and nowhere to go
For the past 10 days, Farah Salka and her team of staff and volunteers at a Lebanese anti-racism organisation have answered thousands of desperate messages from women who have nowhere to hide from the bombs. Before the start of the Israeli airstrikes, Salka’s job as head of Lebanon’s Anti-Racism Movement (Arm) involved advocating and campaigning for the rights of Lebanon’s 400,000 migrant workers.
Now, she and her team have become frontline humanitarian workers, struggling to find shelter and protection for overseas domestic workers from countries such as Ethiopia and Sierra Leone, who have found themselves abandoned by their Lebanese employers and with no way of getting home.
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