Assistant Foreign Minister for Consular Affairs Sami Al-Hamad met with Ethiopia’s ambassador to Kuwait Abdulfattah Hassan on Tuesday to discuss a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on recruiting Ethiopian domestic helpers for Kuwait.
Following the discussions, it was agreed that a committee led by officials from Kuwait Foreign Ministry will travel to Addis Ababa next week to understand the labor recruitment mechanisms in the African country. According to official figures, there are nearly 18,000 Ethiopians, mainly women, working as domestic helpers in Kuwait.
Following the decision by the Philippines to ban the deployment of domestic workers to Kuwait, the country has been looking at alternate labor markets.
Relations between the Philippines and Kuwait soured following reports of the death of a Philippine domestic helper allegedly by her Kuwaiti employers, who were taken into custody. An official autopsy in the Philippines had revealed that the housemaid had been sexually abused before being murdered.
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