Thread by @monaeltahawy

Thread on migrant domestic workers in Lebanon

Amnesty International estimates that more than 250,000 foreigners - or around 8% of the country's working population - live within #Lebanon 's kafala system, a form of employment sponsorship and contract which gives all the power to the sponsor spiegel.de/international/…

#Lebanon ’s economic crisis, exacerbated by #Covid19, and more recently the Beirut explosion, “has sparked a distressing phenomenon of...migrant domestic workers being fired & dumped outside their country's consulate.” google.com/amp/s/amp.fran…

Please consider donating if you can to @EgnaLegnaDWU, a non-profit organization set up by Ethiopian migrant domestic workers, who comprise 77% of foreign domestic workers in Lebanon and have been most affected gofundme.com/f/food-and-med…

Here’s an interview with the founder of @EgnaLegnaDWU

And this is another way you can help migrant domestic workers in Lebanon chuffed.org/project/flight…

“Lebanese civil society groups have been desperately trying to provide humanitarian assistance to migrant workers following the Beirut blasts. But it’s an uphill tasks providing for a marginalised group abandoned by their own and their host governments.” france24.com/en/20200826-be…

This is a #Lebanese civil society group that works to help migrant domestic workers