And overseas...

THE PLIGHT OF FEMALE DOMESTIC WORKERS WORLDWIDE

By Dr. Cyndi Romine

It would seem like a good thing, going away from your country to work in a foreign land and make a LOT of money to send back home to your family in a country that is very poor and where you cannot find a job, a very good thing.

You apply with an agency and you pay them a huge fee with the understanding that all the money will be paid back to the agency by using a percentage of the money you are to make.

When you arrive in your new country, you are met by a stranger sent by the company you have signed-up under for your two year contract. They ask you for your passport, cell phone and ID. Where are you going? Where will you live? What will you be doing for them?

Some are taken directly to a night club and will be stripping and having sex nightly starting the night they arrive. No one to call, no money, no passport, no where to run and no one to run to, fear is your only companion.

Some are taken into a home and you sleep on the floor of the kitchen, work 7 days a week, and the boss comes and rapes you. If you get pregnant and have the baby in the employers home, how do you register the child? You now have the choice to re-commit to re-signing with your contract and continue being raped or leave your undocumented child in a foreign land on the streets. A child on the street will likely be swept up into sexual slavery within 48 hours.

Called to Rescue is now working on documenting undocumented children worldwide. These sex trafficked children have no home, no one looking after them, no legal name, no legal age, and no country. They are abused, victimized, violently treated and sex trafficked and sometimes even organ trafficked, labor trafficked, or soldier trafficked.

Let us make a stand for the innocence of children and make a difference in our world.