84 PINAY WORKERS IN UAE LEFT WITH NO FOOD, NO SALARY SINCE JULY 2010

Merly Perez, centre, along with her co-workers of Lavito Building Cleaning Services sit in their company villa in Ajman on Sunday. Amy Leang / The National

Last year, our sister publication XPRESS reported the case of the 137 Filipino drivers who were duped by recruiters and made to live in a dump in Ajman, an emirate outside Dubai.

Over a year after, the same paper has again stumbled on the case of the 84 Filipina workers who were left unpaid after working as cleaners (janitress) for almost one year and were dumped in a villa in Ajman (an emirate outside Dubai) with no food, no water and electricity. Unbearable weather conditions forced most of them to sleep on the villa’s roof deck.It’s possible that the women may be unknowingly using treated sewage water to shower and to wash their clothes, which explains why some of them have skin problems....