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Probe - Mga Liham mula sa Amman EP2 (part 1 of 4)
For the more than 200 wards at the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration center in Amman, Jordan -- their life in Jordan is hell on earth.
Fearful of the possible consequences, some of the filipinas secretly handed letters to PROBE while in the center. The Filipinas, mostly domestic helpers, 23 of whom are minors, escaped from their abusive employers. Some still bear marks of physical abuse. The others complain of unpaid wages, sexual abuse and rape.
But life at the OWWA center, where they take refuge, is not any better. Food and water is rationed, 200 of them are crammed like sardines in rooms. Even in this supposedly safe haven, they are verbally abused by some Filipino officers. But they would rather stay at the center than be returned to the recruitment agency or their employer.
It seems like our domestic helpers who run away from their employers are always on the losing end. If they can’t produce evidence of abuse, they are sent to a detention center where they are consequently taken again by their employers.
But making it to the OWWA center doesn’t guarantee their immediate return to the Philippines. Seventy five percent of the wards are undocumented or have fake passports. Some have cases filed against them by their employers. They have to wait for proper travel documents or raise money to pay for contract fines with agencies.
Their heart wrenching stories reveal how they were trafficked out of the Philippines with the help of government employees. Back in the Philippines, the Bureau of Immigration answer how Filipinos with fake documents make it past immigration officials.
PROBE reveals the life of Filipina overseas workers in Jordan in a two-part documentary, “Letters from Amman,” this April 30 & May 7, 2008 on ABS CBN.
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