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My Experience: Why I ran away from my Saudi Arabia employer

Reports of Kenyan domestic workers being raped and tortured across the Middle East and haunting videos of Kenyan women pleading for help after allegedly being abused by their employers in the Gulf are not new. Interestingly, these have not deterred many Kenyans from seeking and going to these countries, many of who end up with similar stories. 

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