Millions of domestic workers worldwide have been exposed to abuse and sexual violence which makes their lives that much harder. Although many people believe that slavery is over, it has just began and it's at it's peak. The people become workers because they don't have enough money to finance their lives and their families lives. Because of this they seek for a trustworthy agency that can help them migrate to a different country to seek for a better life. Many times the agencies are abusive and can make the workers lives tough, in the training centers they offer traumatize the workers because of the lack of safety and health they provide. Basically this means that the people who the workers think they can trust, are the most unreliable of all. Because the workers are often abused and sexually violated, they go into a mental state of depression and often times can not escape it.
This topic is important to me because I have a maid and she has experienced troubles with her agencies. Thankfully it never impacted her mental state but for a very long time she was separated from us and her family. I think that it is important for people who need money to get it without being hurt. It impacts not only the workers but the workers families, the employees and their families. Like I said before, when my maid went through the trouble of getting into the country we live in, it affected her family a lot since she was not able to see them for a while. It also affected us because we weren't able to see her for a very long time, and she didn't come back the expected date, she came back one month later.
One of the many facts and surprises I have encountered while researching this topic is that right now there are more slaves than in any other point in history. For me this was shocking because when I think back to all of the historic events for example Martin Luther King Jr. and The Slave Trade, it seems like there were so many more slaves. Yet now most of the slavery is invisible, and this is bad for people like us because we need to know about slavery so we can pitch in to help modern day slavery and domestic workers end.
This makes me feel upset with myself because if I would do more research and I would be more aware of what is happening beyond the border of Malaysia, I would have known much earlier about modern day slavery and domestic workers, meaning I would already be on my way to stopping modern day slavery and domestic workers.
