Most Kenyans and other Africans who head to Saudi Arabia for greener pastures end up in the worst situation.
This was what Lydia Mutua plunged into after she left the country with high hopes of changing her life while in the Arabic States.
Unfortunately, her expectations and reality were like darkness and daylight, completely the opposite.
Speaking to Standard's Ureport, Lydia said she was working for at least 18 hours in a day, only managing to secure just 2 hours for her sleep.
Like many other Kenyans in Saudia, Lydia found her way into the country through usual agents.
She said she had to part ways with Sh65,000, including Sh5,000 medical fee to earn herself access to Saudi Arabia.
However, the money did not scare her away knowing that once in Saudi Arabia she will make a size-able kill.
After just two months of working as a house girl where she was to do all the chores and even gardening, she had no otherwise but to secure a ticket and fly back home.
“After working for two months for a middle-class business family in Sakaka, which is about 1,200 kilometres from the capital Riyadh, I decided that there was no way I could stay there and watch myself die,” she told Ureport adding that “I decided to request for help from my parents back in Kenya who sent me money for transport after which I jetted back."
Basing on her past experience, Lydia says she can only go back to Saudi Arabia if the job offer is from a well-established company.
“Unless I am going for a company job, there is no way I will go back there with what I experienced,” she says.