This podcast is a dramatisation based on the account of a 21-year old woman called Almaz. In 2014, Almaz was living in a women's refuge in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she was recovering from her ordeal working as a domestic maid in Saudi Arabia and told us her story.
Almaz represents the story of thousands of African and Asian migrant workers trapped in abusive and exploitative situations across the Gulf. The true story of one woman reveals the experience that far too many domestic workers endure, depicting the systematic lack of protection for workers throughout the recruitment and migration cycle. Almaz amplifies the hundreds of stories silenced and the experiences of countless workers made invisible.
Comic: positivenegatives.org/comics-animati…2/almaz-story/
Written and produced by Caroline Bolster and Miia Laine
Almaz voiced by Hanisha Solomon
Music by Joe Smith
A SOAS Radio & PositiveNegatives Production.
