OFW In Kuwait Who Killed Herself Days Before The New Year Turned Out To Be A TV Personality's Sibling

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A TV comedian Super Tekla (Romeo Librada in real life) is appealing to the personnel of Philippine Embassy in Kuwait to help investigate the death of his sister, an OFW who allegedly hanged herself to death days before the new year.
Although it appears to be more likely a suicide based on the last post she did on her social media account seemingly saying her last goodbye on December 29. On her post, she was wearing the same red shirt when she was found hanging on her room the next day, Librada still wanted the Philippine Embassy to investigate.

He said he is hoping that the Embassy will look into his sister's case and that of other abused OFWs as well to prevent further cases where deaths are made to look like suicides. However, should the findings of the investigation say that it's indeed a suicide, Librada said they will accept it.Sponsored Links

Librada or Tekla is currently in Canada as he made a live video urging his viewers to share it to heighten awareness on the continued abuse of OFWs.
According to GMA News Online report, they contacted Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III and said the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait will help in the investigation but he did not further elaborate about the details.

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Hong Kong OFW Forced By Employer To Work 20 Hours A Day

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Many Filipinas come to work to Hong Kong with one thing in mind, to earn more money for their family. some of them were lucky to have found good employers but some of them, sadly, were with abusive employers. 

A domestic worker came to work in Hong Kong but was forced by her employer to serve in Shenzhen two years ago, says she was forced to work 20 hours a day while in that mainland Chinese city.

Mary, 37, the mother of two children, recalled in an interview with Apple Daily that she had been sent to serve in a house in Shenzhen two weeks after she came Hong Kong in 2015.

Her employer, an elderly woman, acquired a multiple-entry visa for her, which allowed her to stay in mainland China for up to 15 days on each visit.

Initially, Mary had to go to work in a Shenzhen house between Friday and Sunday at least three times a month. She was ordered to do the household chores from 4am to midnight and was not allowed to go online or walk on the street alone. Later it was arranged for her to serve her employers’ relatives in different houses in Shenzhen.

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She was once sent to take care of a young man in a hospital in southwestern Guangdong province for 21 days, making her husband in the Philippines very worried.

The situation lasted four months until Mary returned to Hong Kong and called for help from her employment agency. She said she was given a new employer after she threatened to report the case to the Immigration Department.

Mary said the Hong Kong government had the responsibility to stop these kinds of exploitation of domestic workers.

The interview was a part of a series of reports published by Apple Daily on Sunday about how domestic workers were forced to illegally work in China. In July, a 28-year-old Filipino maid jumped to her death from a building in Shenzhen after she was forced by her employer to serve in the southern Chinese city.

Eman Villanueva, vice-chairman of the Filipino Migrant Workers’ Union, has estimated more than a thousand Filipino domestic workers hired to work in Hong Kong have been forced to work across the border in Shenzhen.
Source: Asia Times

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OFW in Malaysia, Beaten, Scalded with Boiling By Employer

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The family of an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) cries justice over what happened to their loved one who was physically abused and maltreated in Malaysia. Her employer even scalded her with a boiling cooking oil and scorched using a heated pot!

Joramie Garcia Torres left to work as a household helper in Malaysia after applying to a recruitment agency in Quezon City. Just barely a month after her arrival, she absconded from her employer to avoid the danger of being raped. he then went to the counterpart agency in Malaysia to find her a new employer. On January, she got her new employer who is a finance manager in an oil refinery, according to the report. The family was not able to contact her since then. 

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The family received a news  from a message last June that Joramie was missing. The agency did not tell them anything about her disappearance.
On September 1, the family learned Joramie, wounded, fled her abusive employers on foot until she collapsed in an abandoned lot . A couple assisted her and brought her to a church. She was eventually able to reach the embassy shelter and finally talked to her family back home.

Further hearing regarding Joramie's case is scheduled for next month. The family is also determined to sue the employment agency who deployed her.

Joramie is a former teacher who tried her luck in working overseas as an OFW for the promise of bigger salary and help her family.

The family is appealing to President Duterte for help in serving justice to their aggravated OFW loved one.

Source: GMA News

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