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Revealed: Broken system pushing Kenyan workers to horrifying conditions abroad

A group of Kenyan women await to board a flight to Saudi Arabia at the JKIA. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Ms Rebecca Chesang only learnt of the details in her contract to work in Saudi Arabia when she got to the airport.

Her woes started in her homeland. Initially, Chesang was supposed to work as a domestic worker in Qatar until the day of departure when her agent handed her contract documents at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

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