VIDEO: S3XUALLY ABUSED GHANAIAN LADIES IN LEBANON NARRATE THEIR ORDEAL

Many young ladies in Ghana travel out of the country to other places including Lebanon in search of what they describe as greener pastures.


Some are able to survive the tide while others are unable to due to the extremely harsh conditions they are subjected to at the hands of their hosts and even the agencies they work with.

These ladies sometimes die through the harsh conditions and manhandling whiles a few who are bold to escape do that to save themselves from the torture and anguish they have to suffer just because their country’s economic conditions are not favorable to the average individual.

Such is the story of 26 year-old Sarah [name changed to protect her] who as a result of the manhandling from the brother of her host and her agent had to run for her life after she had gone to Lebanon to look for money for herself and her family.

Having been told good stories of the million she will make, Sarah left the shores with a woman she did not make mention of her name.

She said when she in the company of the woman arrived in Lebanon, she treated her with respect for the first few weeks but abruptly ended being nice to her and introduced the second phase of hostility towards her.
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” I came to lebanon to work and I get money. I work with some woman…the one who bring me to Lebanon. First day when I came there she received me good with her husband. They were good to me. Only One week, they changed. If you do any mistake she will use her shoes to be beating you. so there the lashing was too much for me so I ran,” Sarah told Sky News about her first encounter with terror.

She added “you’ll sleep… you’ll not sleep early and if she’s coming to wake you up she will use her shoes to wake me up. So I decided to run, I run from the house”.

Not broken by the maltreatment she went through, Sarah through her agents secured working space with another family where she moved on to work in order to make the money she had come to Lebanon to look for.


“So I went to another family from the office who bring me here. They gave me some woman. I went there to work too there were s3xual harassment. It was too much. One of my madam’s brothers he want to sleep with me. He told that this is twenty dollars take and let me spend my night with you, I said no I didn’t came here because of s3x and money.

The next day he came, I was in the bathroom scrubbing and he came naked, he didn’t wear anything and he hold knife and do me like this and he asked me do you know this? and I said knife and he put it on my neck and told me that if you don’t know and you tell my sister I will kill you. Here is a cemetery I will kill you in the night and throw you there no one will know that it’s me. 

So I was quiet and listened to him. He told me from today going every day I have to suck your breast, I’ve to do this, I’ve to do that. I don’t even want to remember because what this guy did to me it was very painful,” she told Sky News after escaping a wrenching experience which has killed her soul and drive to make money in Lebanon.

Although Sarah has managed to slip away from the family, the challenges ahead are enormous because she will have to struggle with her Agency because she has no money neither does she have her passport with her.

“No I don’t have the passport now. Is with my agent. I don’t have the passport, the agent she collect money from me. She beat me and collect my money from my hand.”

She notes that there are a number of young ladies who have plans of joining in Lebanon because they want to work to save their family from poverty but to Sarah, they should stay put in Ghana because they will be treated as slaves by their employers and even not make the needed money.

According to Aya Majzoub of Human Rights Watch, the kafala system is a modern day slavery.

She says people in Lebanon unfortunately do not understand the inherent racism embedded in the system.

To her, people of Lebanon and especially Politicians think the abuse seen on a daily basis is as a result of a few bad employers which to her should not be the case.