BBC Africa Eye investigates the plight of Malawian women lured to Oman with offers of domestic work, only to be trapped in a cycle of exploitation, with little hope of escape.
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Through WhatsApp voice notes, videos, and texts, this documentary reveals their abusive ordeals, and exposes the tactics of agents that traffic and then abandon them. The investigation also examines the poverty and desperation that leads young people to seek opportunities in the Middle East, and the weak justice system that often allows their employers to abuse them with impunity.
Intimate testimonies reveal widespread accounts of sexual and physical abuse, or worse, of African workers - and the film follows the work of an extraordinary network of women working across three continents fighting to bring them home, often against impossible odds.
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Credits:
Head of Longform – LIZ GIBBONS
Africa Eye Editor – TOM WATSON
Director and Executive Producer – NICOLA MILNE
Film Editor – FINLAY MILNE
Investigative Producer – KASSIM MOHAMED
Reporter – FLORENCE PHIRI
Archive – VOICE OF AFRICA, VOA, NEWS CENTRAL AFRICA
Additional Camera – ROBERT MBETEWA
Additional Translation – SUSAN MATIYA
Online Editor – CHRIS STOTT
Colourist – BOYD NAGLE
Dubbing Mixer – JEZ SPENCER
Reversioning Producer and Film Research – ANNA PAYTON
Digital Producer – TAMASIN FORD
Impact Producer – ADELLE KALAKOUTI
Social Media Producer – ANUSHA KUMAR
Production Coordinator – ABIGAIL KNIGHT
Production Manager – SIMON FROST
Camera - Malawi – PETER MAZUNDA
Camera - USA – DEREK ELLIS
Camera - Greece – VANIA TURNER
Fixer – HENRY MHANGO
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