Sometimes I only had bread and tea. I worked all day, with only bread and tea. One day, I asked for my full salary and I told madam not to send me to work at the houses of her friends and relatives, and I said that, “if you don’t give me my salary I will not work at all”. After saying this, I was beaten right away. She even used shoes to beat me. My right hand was broken and there were bruises all over my body. I was only taken to hospital 10 days later. But madam told me that if I was asked by a doctor or anyone else about what happened to me, I should not tell them that I was beaten. She told me to say that, “it happened because I fell down while I was working”.
Narrative provided by KAFA newsletter, Stop the Exploitation of Migrant Domestic Workers, ,issue #2, Beirut: 2010, (p.7)
