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 Hajar“I worked as a maid all summer when I came to Egypt to save up for my tuition fees. Before the school year started, I met a boy who said he wanted to marry me and I believed him. He asked me to give him my money to invest it in a business and that by the following month the money would double. I agreed. I called him the next day and his cell phone was switched off. I never heard from him again.” |  Fatma“My family is in Sudan, barely surviving, and though I came here to support them financially, I don’t know how much longer I could stand living here without them here with me to support me. I am living here like I am some kind of animal at very best. Sometimes animals (in reference to her employer’s pets) are treated better.” |  Rose“I was going to work one day and crossed paths with a group of boys on the street. Once they were behind me, they took a big rock from the road and threw it at me and hit my back. I started crying and asking them why they would do this to me. You know I am human too.” |
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 Naamat“I went to three different police stations to try to file a complaint against someone who scammed me and was shoved, yelled at, denied a chair to sit on to seat the Egyptians, and threatened to be deported. I don’t know why. I asked one of them what the Sudanese people ever did to him and why he was treating me so badly. He ignored me and moved on to help the Egyptians.” |  Khadeeja“I personally wasn’t ill-treated but I have many friends who were. Some were scammed of their money then deported back to Nigeria, some have very bad employers. They don’t give them food, let them sleep, and they treat them very badly.” |
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