Maids

I went with my mom today to look at the new applications arrived at a maids office to pick our choice.

Skimming through them, a normal conversation would question their experiences and language(s) they are able to speak... Instead of that me and mom were discussing their issues and addressing them like the widow with three children, the single 34 years old... the married with two children...

It made me feel so sad just looking through them, another customer was there and a look of surpise was on his face... Its weird how we can easily shut our feelings off.

I thought of that widow with three children, she has no experience. She has to work after the death of her husband... she is 37 years old, speaks neither Arabic nor English, she is leaving her kids in a not-known-end adventure. Allah e3eenhom.

The Indonesian 24 years old we have, after 3 years of staying at our place... She opened up and told me how many of her friends who served in Saudi got pregnant or were molested by the "acting religious" fathers there... My assumption is that MOST of the maids there get such treatment.

All of that is for 3.5 JDz a day, I really wonder if it is really worth it.

When thinking of this I always close the subject by reconvincing myself that this amount of money they take is enough and worth it.

But is it?!


listening to : ra7al - macadi na77as
in the mood for : ritter sport