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Just one out of 180,000 with a story to tell
17 hours a day for 420 consecutive days work, denial of human rights, institutionalized exploitation, profiteering agencies and sexual abuse. An account of my time is Singapore. |
Little Sister
"At Pondok Madonna, the shelter of Solidaritas Migran Scalabrini (SMS) all the women call me Dedeh or Little Sister. I do not know when I was born and which year I was born. According to my father I was one when my mother died. Then when I was three, my father remarried and I lived with my stepmother and her child in Lampung. My father had to work in Jakarta so I only got to see him once a year. " |
Sex in the Woodlands...Suk's Story
"I was ashamed of them and I left to stay with a friend. My friend then introduced me to nightclubbing where I learned to smoke, drink and consume drugs. Then I stopped schooling and at 19 became a sex worker in Bangkok." |
Marilon Gacuya
"He molested me many times, touching and pressing my butt. I protested. But he persisted. Then one day, when I was in the room ironing the clothes, he forced himself upon me, hugging and groping my body." |
Strip Searched: Mary's Story
Mary came to Singapore from the Philippines to work as a domestic worker, but instead found herself repeatedly exploited and abused. |
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