Jobs or slavery? Kenyans speak of abuse in the Middle East

Nancy Cherotich, 30, at her home in Mosoriot, Nandi County after she returned from Lebanon.

Three weeks after burying her last born daughter, Lenah Masai still harbours questions about circumstances surrounding her death. The daughter, Carris Chepkirui, fondly known as Totoh by her Mosoriot-based family, died just three days after travelling to Lebanon for work.

A report from a District Attorney’s office in Bsous, 14km from Beirut, the Lebanon capital where the 23-year-old was assigned as a domestic worker, revealed that her corpse was found hanging by the staircase inside her employers’ mansion.