OFW Got Injured While Trying to Escape Abusive Employer in Kuwait

An attempt to escape her abusive employer has endangered the life of a Filipina domestic helper after she got injured after she jumped from the 6th floor of her employers residence in Kuwait.

A report of Kuwait times said that the HSW has been found to be using a fake passport  provided by the recruiter where she applied for work in Kuwait. The real identity of the HSW  who claims that she is only 17 years old and her real name is Malaiha Omar  and not a 24-year old Rahima Omar that appears to her passport.

Omar, was allegedly caught stealing from her employer and she admitted that she did it during the interview. But she claims that her employer had been 

treating her harshly ever since she came in Kuwait to work for them last August 2016. She narrated that they whipped her with a belt, shout at her and hit her in the face for even a petty mistake. She doesn't have much problem with it until her employer discovered that she has stolen an amount of KD110.

At the hospital, she narrated how she  ended up jumping off at the 6th floor of the building that caused her an injured left eye and a fractured leg. Omar said that she is really 17 years old and  she is from  a village in Datu Uddin Sinsuat, Cotabato

“My male employer was asking about [his] missing pants, ” she narrated. “Out of fear, I said I don’t know, but I knew where the pants are. I was just too scared to tell him because I don’t want to be whipped again. I accidentally burned the pants while I was ironing them. So, he inspected my cabinet and found the damaged pants inside. There, he also found the money ...When they said that they are calling [a] police, I was terribly scared,” she said.  "I don’t know what to do because I don’t want to be arrested, so I jumped from the sixth floor," she added.

 Omar’s recruitment agency told the Philippine Embassy that she would not file a lawsuit against her employers. 
“I went to the hospital to check her condition and see how we could be of help whether the agency is helping or not. According to the recruitment agency personnel I spoke with, the young girl will not be filing complaints against her sponsor because she said it was her fault,” an embassy representative said. However, Omar is not pardoned as she will face attempted suicide charges filed by the local police.
However, Omar's claim that the recruitment agency provided the fake passport she used to have a job in Kuwait and cheated on her identity and age is so alarming. "The recruitment agency should be suspended and banned, and should be subjected for investigation, at least," says a Filcom leader in Kuwait. Given her age of 17, she is not capable enough to handle such stressful situations and the recruitment  agency who sent her has to be blamed. After all, it is illegal to accept an underage applicant and worst, deploy them abroad using a falsified passport.

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SENATOR JOEL VILLANUEVA SUPPORTS CALL TO TEMPORARILY BAN HSW DEPLOYMENT IN KUWAIT

The deployment moratorium for HSWs in Kuwait is a steaming issue after the death of Jakatia Pawa, an OFW who was executed  for allegedly killing her employer's daughter, Amy Capulong Santiago, who was beaten to death by her employers, and a long list of un-addressed cases of maltreated household service workers.

Senator Joel Villanueva, being the chairman of the Senate committee on labor, employment and human resources development, has joined the call for temporary ban of HSW deployment in Kuwait.

“Our OFWs have already been sacrificing so much to provide for their families in the Philippines. Let us not further aggravate their suffering by turning a blind eye on the abuses being committed against them by their employers. I deem it imperative to act on these incidents,”  Villanueva said.

Villanueva urged both  DOLE and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to review their policies in sending migrant workers abroad and look at ways on how to improve their assistance and protection to affected OFWs.

“We have been receiving numerous cases of abuse against our OFWs, and I deem it urgent for the government to temporarily stop sending domestic workers in countries where they are not being treated properly,”  the senator said.
He said that the two agencies should track the incidence of abuse and automatically issue a moratorium in sending workers to countries with high HSW abuse incidence.

In Kuwait alone, there were at least 500 distressed OFWs who spent their New Year at government offices in Kuwait due to reported abuses and maltreatment their employers committed to them.

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Dominador Say, undersecretary of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), said that talks are underway with Chinese embassy officials on this possibility. China’s five major cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen will soon be the destination for Filipino domestic workers who are seeking higher income.

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