[Lifestyle] They may turn into a nightmare.. Foreign women to serve inside Iraqi homes

[Mr.Bada]

BAGHDAD - The scene of a foreign worker with African or Asian features accompanying the Iraqi family in public places is no longer strange. Many families have turned to foreign labor recruitment offices to get housekeepers to clean and care for the sick and the elderly, while some women are keen to get a maid. In order to show off and appear as a layer of velvet. Regarding the resort in Iraqi homes to foreign maids instead of local ones, Magda Saeed - owner of a cosmetics store in Diwaniyah (south of Baghdad) says that Iraqi women refuse to work as a maid and consider this a shame, but some elderly widows and some needy may be forced to this profession. .https://www.aljazeera.net/news/lifestyle/2022/2/2/أجنبيات-داخل-منازل-العراقيين-للخدمة

And about her experience with a foreign labor company, the Iraqi media, Aseel Al-Bayati, says that she went to a company to bring in a worker, and after completing the contract and receiving a Nigerian worker, it turned out at a later time that the company was to seize money in exchange for employment, which put the maid Victoria in great difficulty in returning to her country Or take her on a trip outside Iraq because the company seized her passport. Al-Bayati adds - to Al-Jazeera Net - that she initially suffered from the difficulty of language between her and Victoria, but the maid began to learn Arabic.Aseel ended her speech by praising her maid, who started learning how to operate the house in the way that suits her and takes into account customs and traditions, she said. Another experience recounted by the housewife Hanan Nouri (30 years), who lives in Basra Governorate (southern Iraq), has hired a Cuban maid to help her with the housework, especially that she has 4 children, in addition to the need for special care for her father-in-law, who is 89 years old. Hanan said - to Al Jazeera Net - that her father-in-law is an old man who suffers from forgetfulness, so he forgets whether he prayed or not or took his medicines or not, and sometimes he goes out and does not know how to return home until one of the residents of the neighborhood leads him home, so she resorted to the maid Jonah to focus On the needs of this old man, and then she devote herself to taking care of the children more.