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ALJAZ 101 East Exploited Filipino Workers In Geneva July 7, 2024



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you're okay. oh good. oh, speaking her to see you is 48 years old and has 2 children who was studying back in the philippines. well, she came to switzerland to make money, to send home for their education. i haven't seen me a family far for your son ready and it is really difficult for a mom to be away from them. it is. it is height waking, i say because i wasn't able to witness their lives. they go to school. oh, i wasn't able to oh, i wasn't there to prepare her food to greet them when they come home to send them to school. you know, as a man, i miss all this opportunities, but then ah ah, it is really tough but you know he need oh, for the family we have, i have to do this. so i decided to come in work we cannot afford to pay for the whole apartment because it's very expensive. so oh, the only solution for us to find a place is to share ah, across town these duplexes managed by the same landlady. ah, it's sunday. lunar leases day off. oh i yes. yes. yes, yes. ah, they're following an evangelical service back home in the philippines. they live in this small apartment with 9 others. together they pay the landlady about $6.00 and a half $1000.00 a month. nearly double the market rent. well it's, it's really difficult because our half of our salary will lead to pete and the house for our room is $1100.00 for it. so, so this a 125 square meter apartment has 5 bedrooms and only one common room, a small kitchen to stay out of each other's way. they meticulously time their activities, according to a tight schedule. i am the 1st one. whoa, whoa, whoa, up in the morning at around 5 b m, because we have our own schedule. ah, for me. yeah, because i am the 1st ones i had the walk up by 5 in the morning and i'm using the bathroom for 30 minutes. so after that, i need to lay down again with my bed because i'm it still early for me to got the work. sometimes at 730 or 8 o'clock. there's no hot water anymore. so we need to hit from the boiler to use the hut lot. there for dose, and luckily we who are not the having their their bed during summer it's a very, very hot and now it's winter. ah, this sir. heat, there's not working. we began at cook all together. we had this schedule, we are all a doing miserable here. for all of us in 11 who are leaving you luna has never seen her grandchildren in person. she came to switzerland 9 years ago to support her family. oh. and the agency, based in the philippines, capital manila, organized to travel and put her in contact with the landlady of anyway, ah, if costa, 15000 francs or some. ah, it depends upon the brushing up the beepers because we don't have any i, we don't do anything. all our for the agency. we just had to give the initial premium. and after that, if everything is already okay, they arranged everything. my loan is still paying back the agency and i just get my her financial situation is precarious, largely because of the amount of rent she pays, but she has little choice. if she leaves her and the others want to stay here, they have to pay ah, being undocumented in switzerland doesn't just affect a commendation. it's also impossible to have a legal job. all these women are informal, domestic workers. cecilia is akina in this up market apartment. ah, i do are thank chance. so i am doing cleaning housekeeping for 4 hours and are in the afternoon. i have to pick up kids. okay, bring them from school to home and play with them for an hour. i work like 8 hours a day from monday to friday, i get touring like a decent amount of 2005, 2003. and then i have to pay my rent, which is trent $40.00. have to pay my bills. i have to buy for my food it is not an easy money. it is like blood and sweat for us. so every cent should be spent wisely. ausa. cecilia spent 11 years working in south korea before coming to switzerland attracted by the high wages. but she was quickly reminded of her vulnerable position. they don't treat you as an employee. they treat you as a slave. is like anytime they tell you you have to be there. you have to come now is like people cannot wait and sometimes we don't get paid the right way, the right amount. mm hm. it is always in a bargain situation. it is like take it or leave it situation. but because we're already here, we don't have a choice ah, lorna urns about $3000.00 a month. she baby fits often 7 days a week, even following her employers on vacation. but the cove in 19 pandemic has made her work more regular, less. oh, not for the whole week, but at least a half of our foot. do we need in one leak, that we can get there in caravan? since 2015, the age group solidarity caravan has given essentials to those in need. it seen an explosion of people needing help during the pandemic here. well, one of the co founders of the organization is filipino activist charlie hernandez. he's well aware of how precarious the lives of his country men and women ah is on our promise. if arnold were id is who was the, could be our minimum of saws other non poor of, of precisely, deeper holler. thanks you, donna, did i mean to resolve malika? could luxury did the defeat by the letty noisy to listening or for bell? this is this off, hold on our me co op, rather bombing, the category with it is the deluxe is excessive. till in me, utterly fully conversion. it was a young, a disadvantage. i'm with only my dad, he's ok, her tip to disperse. imagine an up to more on to, to the bottom, on the dps. he doesn't, but since you got another, not so puffy, and outside of the legal housing market. these workers are vulnerable to exploitation by slum lourdes. alexandro de felipe ho coordinates, a support network for undocumented, foreigners in geneva, one 3rd of those who come to him. a filipino thing by the bellamy group. i was actually hoping ratio. got more for the most, marcia, and looks at for simone. now there is a pre v, a diverse, is there morgan? easy silver with the person? long beach isn't. it does end up after more, solano, da, 2nd. this is a path to more. yep. is your person get paid to hardware? yeah, no, papa lasonya. boyd bless poorly for him at law. to mom lou lou sir, is on a commode, the christopher all the filipinos, we met, of the same landlady, profiting from the situation we'll call her miss k. introducing herself as a pilot. she's believe to be in her forties and makes a good income from subletting. when miss carnes to get to rent, she always comes very late. like 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, we are already asleep actually. and then she knocks on the door sometimes because we are already asleep and we have to go to work early in the morning. we don't open it anymore. but still she goes up and down from the building, knocking and knocking. sometimes she has the key, so she, she often said she doesn't give receipts why she gets her payment. she only gives like a text message. like thank you for the food it is assigned at her. she got the money in this building as she has sir. 6 other flats including us. ah, but it is not under her name. she uses other name like her sister, sister in law rather in law. you know, countrymen, cousins. i don't know. miss k has been managing a round 30 apartments in geneva and across switzerland. since 2011, she is housed hundreds of people. a well we'll system. it was suddenly exposed in march 2020. after a series of dawn. raids by the police. ah, we walk up, read her big bang on the door and when he snacking. so loud and the door at 6 45 in the morning. and then we opened a door. they woke us up telling i still wake up and get our as far as an under documents documents that we have. and we should all move in the kitchen. i know all of you here. don't have beepers. please, sir, don't be afraid. we just want to ask something about the owner of this house. despite the risks, some tenants made formal complaints against miss k. lawyers, celine miro, represent. some of them are offended. well, i, li, does altogether do rep will use those on a galleries doctor beat, sponsor wasi. luciano sick, disha, if graham saw to basket barajo on the bad alternator. down to noon on the phone, sir burge fed, kennesaw, but on kathy vasa in plano, white were put on emma martin. that z won't get wanted you to walk away. it don't live your son's joy deliveries, knowing that i didn't have the document, it is the best thing to do. because no one can give us protection any more. it is only let we have to rely on the government, the authority. that may be just telling the truth in supporting them, they could support us back. mm. miss k was arrested on charges relating to usury that is making unlawful financial gain through exploitation. lux one does you've seen advice from care jet. wagner was onto a concert balla leopard now sir james in bethany larry. tim kinley. dad deniability, particularly err. yeah, let's put this on said we're now. i mean, did it pre yar are in this port basra and most of his kill fer it went on kid monday april. so saudis said did were yuki song, i preach on fox austin jumper due for priscilla cur school boy is billy only would love to talk to her rewards. yamashita, beth, or i'm gonna get there on the old lad to, to have been affordable. you don't dodge actually it was on there as near clermont on than this just from his you are. so she looks like she has money. if you look at her, she has nice out feed and expensive like this. she, she looks like. hm. and yes, of course when she comes, she has lots of money in her bag because she came from other places already like to get rent. we contact ms clay to ask her about the allegations, but she directs us to her lawyer yell hyatt sole he, she already got a video more shallow door. urgent popular shocked on his stinson, a peasant cough exquisitely sali, she of member of tony hung a ship still said senate basil. god don't as you look you fool appealed it to listen to it. not done more. asked him, noted there under g, aren't they given? louise skip orse. could pause it, besson looks good. long sulu ain't been as joy. yeah. all upon a risky death of lenward. so it for a press. you select a christy. the 5th google who augment d. o loon, where you guys have the number of st dash osgood or point the least it pressure dum, ordeal for it. see it? yeah. w o according to the police miss k earned more than $21000.00 per month from subletting. yeah, almond door left from the fair aleman, daughter biology and found her kia member sees a proposal. regina is from popovic cuvee. if this ones to are a key. see cur. yeah. to tom bond. le papoulias. sure. where do you hooked on this teen? as janeth kid, dilly c or the reggie creek? lamar? laska and belmont, unable, he a said populous, jo, a boy that was literally clear that jeanette in his eye and boy 50 mos has killed aunt or sanchez to the to when she comes to our place and get our rent each it is just like business is in business conversation, you pay and she said good bye and that's it. she doesn't stay long. she doesn't spend much time talking with us now. she doesn't even say where she came from. oh, fresh is going next or what? she yes. okay. i need it fast. okay. faster i'm late, i'm late, always late. it's always laker. drag for her. miss kay also has other rooms advertised on ebay and b, making her see more business woman than benefactor. but she does provide a roof for those who can't use the traditional rental market. people without legal status or steady jobs. ali christophe gerad, it's c e o. at hospice general, which implements geneva, social welfare policy, embellish, preserve, does vary. oh jesus, all that. as alice are latasha, look of it. the more loc grenada oscar, and bizarre. good news. every scam all come up with you. and lucas aren't they bore? you saw to the fair, a legal form, a diving the modem where yuki thought of her dolly, behind the latasha. naughty larry and as us or bob blood, don't go with ox, your side law. ms. kay, was clearly aware of the welfare rights she'd asked for the maximum possible amount . $1200.00 per tenant, often for just a simple room. according to the investigation file, she housed at least for welfare recipients. one who was unable to manage his spending had his benefits paid directly into miss kays account. and his doesn't seem to be an isolated case. i'm going to source of the gnome. earl de c mattern so may and may in forego senate bundled mother with equal to live in a man, if with dog girlie, boy, im looked on the lawyers world delegate the law on go f l ot oglesby. chanel did not get as much. feels he thought new, i'm afraid you're most he thought lucas region of these rocky so that it's a c l o n o him on difficulty of hoover and above them all your crib would probably at the tip of bio he so puerto nearby alone or pope the situation plays into the hands of slum lourdes and it seems miss kay's business is just the tip of the iceberg in geneva. it's estimated more than $10000.00 undocumented migrants struggle to find accommodation. it's a market that could also appeal to property management company. ms. k has winded 20 apartments to zimmerman. a company with $11000.00 and tenants on the books worth more than a $160000000.00. lawyer saline. moreover, so it's difficult to believe the company was unaware of her activities. if it is a button that you want from a she doesn't remember sean on the district or was it launched in which is us from off the particular mune? the remember love you mostly to say for sancho tell no, no. i'm just now remember the piece on the average. you have, if i'm not going to harvard, don't don't. mutual nonfiction in 2018, a subtenant with a residence permit alerted the company to miss kase activities. i contacted him remind i told them, since charging us much, much more, i sent them everything, all the se harder. i told them a c was ready and 2 people even without pay pears and so they excessive price. i sent them a lot of domains. i called them. i went there to their office. they told me ah, okay, we are not sure what to do in the situation. someone has to report it. um, but nothing happened. we contacted zimmerman's management to ask them about miss k. read cuz she was at blair for so long. la femme count for jesse think they were for you for your for is if you do it, bull. the director of the company declined to be interviewed, but told us he was stunned to hear about the actions of miss k. zimmerman's history with the landlady suggests otherwise. after a quarter investigation began in 2015 management terminated her laces, but by 2016 the company was back in business with her. and according to a search zimmerman had leases with at least 2 other slum lords, even more, damming documents foundering. last year's police rains, show that in 2018. when ms. k. made a request for a lace, the company's administrator judged it too dangerous, but her director asked him to turn a blind dye. ah, miss kay is still under investigation. if convicted, she faces up to 15 years in prison. for those at the heart of the case, the struggle to find affordable accommodation continues forced out of their apartments after police raids. some now living rooms managed by others, some modes. so keep doing the melissa, so the top chic, the community exists basque exist said to said popular so, but you can get more vulnerable. as he said, popular some particular more renewable exists, of asking the cul de model and you will de la pro seat of with a memorial and passivity that hydroxy. so it doesn't keep what i saw. this is stupid, don't please it. as i did daddy morty, i locked the front door such a de criminal. any 2, lou, while geneva, slum lourdes, make a profit, undocumented filipino workers try to survive the best they can far from the families they're providing for. i would be home say, by gets grace a few more years to work here. if i would be able to have a descent saving, then maybe it's enough for me to call me. ah, we know what's happening in our region. we know how to get to places that others hang on. i was just thrown here guy by the police on purpose. i got 0 had that time in its programming and go live on the on the go live. the were another boy that may not be me. 3 is happening a bars. i said, i'm going on with the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference. the he

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