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A Time of Crisis: Lebanon’s Kafala Victims Need You

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Understandably, the crisis that the COVID-19 virus has caused globally has uncovered many other otherwise hidden issues. Lebanon’s Kafala system is one of these issues. For those who don’t know, a kafala system is what many Arab countries put in place to monitor the migrant workers in the country. Each worker is assigned a sponsor, who then controls many aspects of this worker’s life. Unfortunately this means that a worker cannot quit or leave the country whenever they choose to.

Banchi Yimer, the founder of the the Egna Legna Besidet (Amharic approximately translates to “from us migrants to us migrants) non profit organization based in Beirut Lebanon, speaks of the situation facing migrant domestic workers in Lebanon,

Ethiopians are approximately 77% of the total population of domestic workers across Lebanon and they form the bulk of the migrant worker population across the Middle East. In Lebanon, an economic crisis that hit the country hard in the latter half of 2019, put many domestic workers out of a job. As a result of government ordered lockdowns to contain the virus, many of these jobless Ethiopian domestic workers have no money for food and other basic necessities. They are estimated to number in the thousands in Lebanon.

At this time, they are in need of your help as the problems faced by domestic workers in Lebanon are on an unprecedented scale. They need your donations to help reach the domestic workers trapped in their homes without money for basic necessities and you can help to ensure that they are not forgotten. 

Help us help them! Any amount benefits the vulnerable. You can learn more from their GoFundMe page.

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Israa Elkhatib

I was born in Palestine but raised with the fireflies in Georgia. My teenage years were spent being the Muslim nerd who was known as the bookworm of the school. That followed me back to Palestine, to develop into being the girl with the big vocabulary. I spent most of my high-school days cursing Newton for not eating that apple. My English Literature Bachelor's degree was only obtained because I'm a nerd for literature and my minor in Translation pretty much pays the bills, thank you Birzeit University.Creative writing is my passion and reading is my escape from reality into a world where everything is the way you imagine it to be.

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