Being a modern-day hero, an Overseas Filipino Workers is not a joke, because they are not sure if they can return to the home country with good health and strong body. It is already a common experience of some of the unlucky domestic helper or sometimes called as Household Service Workers suffers maltreatment and abused by their employers together with family, relatives, and friends. This has happened to an unfortunate OFWin Riyadh who allegedly serving two employers which is not acceptable and not on her contract as a domestic helper. The OFW Ana Fe Velasco-Bania went to Riyadh last 2015 to work as a Household Service Worker and her family and relatives are expecting for her return after finishing the contract but unfortunately the unexpected happens because she returns before her contract ends and unfortunately she returns inside a casket. She started to work in Riyadh last April 2015 with her employer named Yahya Muhamad Ali Alyami having a basic salary of $400 monthly for a two years contract.The unfortunate modern-day hero Ana Fe told her daughter that she was serving and working with two masters or employers which is a violation of her contract.According to Velasco, the mother of the OFW"She served two masters in Riyadh. She was sent by her original employer to their family friend as on-call worker to do the household services which we considered violation of her work contract,"
From the previous conversation with her daughter, her first employer is a kind master but the other one was the reversed of her first employer, a cruel and abused her daughter. But a few months before the end of her daughter's contract, Velasco received a report that her daughter was dead because of a heart attack last Sept. 29 at the age of 38. The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration(OWWA) arranged the immediate repatriation of Ana Fe's body to her home country and arrived at the Legazpi City Domestic Airport last Nov. 2. Upon receiving of the remains of Ana Fe, it was immediately transported to Nabua, Camarines Sur. Earlier the body was embalmed, the family discovered bruises on her remains. Velasco uttered
"My daughter’s cadaver has bruises all over her body. That could be the consequence of maltreatment she went through to her second employer,"
Ana Fe's husband is seeking for justice and he would like that her wife will undergo an autopsy to know the real cause of her de*th. Her Family was not convinced from the medical report of the King Khalid Hospital in Saudi Arabia that she di*d because of an acute cardiovascular accident. Ferdinand said
"If government officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs will help me out, I will pursue the case against the employers of my wife. But, if there’s nobody willing to help us, I could not do anything about because I don’t have the capacity to pursue the case,"Ana Fe is believed died after her service and working for the second employer. It was discovered that she begins working Sept. 23 and working for 3 days. After the 3 days working on her second employer, the first employer is already waiting for her to return but she was discovered later in a cold-blooded body inside the hospital.
According to her husband, last Oct. 4, he received a video of his wife pleading for help and narrating that she was sick but her second employer insisting her to work in spite of her sickness. But the video was already late because he received it one week after her wife di*d. The grieving family hopes and expecting that OWWA and the DFA will assist and help them to have an intense investigation into Ana Fe's case and hope that the justice will be served to them. The OWWA officer of the Regional Office. Fatima Dazal told that they are now looking for the name of the second employer where Ana Fe's di*d.
What can you say about the fate of this unfortunate OFW? Is it time to stop the deployment of domestic helpers to Saudi Arabia and other Middle East Country? Kindly share your thoughts and opinion with us.
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