A maid who fell in Kuwait was NOT from Tanzania

[iArmaniAdamson]

Contrary to what was reported before, these are updates

1. The maid was Ethiopian
2. She sruvived and STILL ALIVE right now
3. She was in Kuwait
4. The employer has been arrested
5. in 2015 Kuwait introduced law to safeguard domestic workers - work maximum 12 hours, 1 compulsory day off per week, paid holiday and not to confiscate their passports

full story below

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The floor looks clean in this high-rise apartment, seven stories above Kuwait City traffic. Not a smudge in sight on the picture window. On the other side of the glass, the maid is hanging on by one knuckle, screaming.

“Oh crazy, come here,” a woman says casually in Arabic, holding a camera up to the maid.

“Hold on to me! Hold on to me!” the maid yells.

Instead, the woman steps back. The maid's grip finally slips, and she lands in a cloud of dust, many stories below.

The maid — an Ethiopian who had been working in the country for several years, according to the Kuwait Times — survived the fall. The videographer, her employer, was arrested last week on a charge of failing to help the worker.

Source: A maid begged for help before falling from a window in Kuwait. Her boss made a video instead.

 

[Tempon]

Boss the Employer can't be arrested because of house maid, I know arabs they're bad people at all, We need to have a rule that will not allow Our people to work there especially House maid, Incase of professional Career it's good somehow but nat cheap labour

 

[iArmaniAdamson]

Boss the Employer can't be arrested because of house maid, I know arabs they're bad people at all, We need to have a rule that will not allow Our people to work there especially House maid, Incase of professional Career it's good somehow but nat cheap labour

that will be very hard to implement, and very unfair, not every Arab is a bad person, even the bad ones are that way, part because of culture and lack of mindedness. If we stop this channel of employment it wont be fair to majority of people who have had this opportunity to better their lives through this trade.

And its not only Tz who source maids, its a thriving business and opportunity for people from south asian etc. so I think its good to report these events to help authorities to do their best to safeguard foreigner domestic workers. I think this is more measure than closing this route all together.