Liberia: Trafficked Liberian Girls From Lebanon Plead for Support

Patricia Joe was full of hope and dreams for a beetter life, for herself and her little daughter. To ensure her dreams came true she looked for job and opportunities to leave her native Liberia because living conditions was becoming unbearable or her, a single mother. For Patricia and scores of young girls taken to Lebanon and accordingly treated inhumanely, their return home should have restored a sense of sanity to months of enslaved treatment meted against them by slave masters in Lebanon.

Sadly for Patricia and her peers, the last few months, since their return home has been a living hell. One day in early 2012 it seemed God had smiled on her. A man approached Patricia with a proposition of working in Lebanon for US$250 monthly. Patricia parked her few clothes along with her high school diploma and other supporting documents having the high hope that she was going to work at a supermarket. But upon reaching Lebanon she soon discovered that she was to work as a house maid. Even more shocking was the fact that she was now a slave bought for 3,500 United States dollars.

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