The Hidden Lives Of 'Housegirls' – BBC Africa Eye Documentary

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In Uganda, young women are leaving their homes to try and find jobs as domestic workers, but for some their new lives can lead …

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@BBCAfrica March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

🎥 Watch the follow-up full documentary,"What happened to the ‘Housegirls’?" here: https://youtu.be/5IVojUpq-_w

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@johnrongolotepor9101 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

So sad

@griffinndeta6517 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

Babylon has fallen!

@Yuviaamor March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

Shame on that woman saying that they never abused Mercy. Such disgusting people.
God bless you Mercy and all the girls victims of abuse.

@Klapback March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

That’s how I’m forced to live in Colorado and they say it’s legal to force ppl to be slaves 24/7 w no pay & steal your ID and threaten blackmail & force you to sleep in a garage during -8 degree winter storms along w S harassment. Apparently it’s only illegal if you’re not born an American

@zikhosahluko March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

🇿🇦 South Africa lets do better to our sisters and brothers 🙏🏽

@jst5679 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

How can you feel sorry for people making $2 day in a third world country when in England we are paid £12( $15$16) a day when we're looking for work and let's face it life in England is 1000 X more expensive than the life in Kenya. We already have cars and many many extra things to pay for they don't. I know they don't even have that kind of a system in Kenya but there are people struggling in the richest countries in the world all over the world I have been out of work for only 2 months before I found another job but the money I had to survive on until that point is not far off of what they are paid daily in a third world country.. in England a loaf of bread alone cost £2 1/6 of my daily payment it's very difficult to feel sorry for other people when everybody is in the same situation

@kgaogelokekana5595 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

Earning $8 per month?? Shocking! I spent that on two coffees this morning! What a different world! Strength to all these women. God be with you all!

@jcmjcm1945 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

Even now a way to help these ladies and mothers is hard because the people who say give us money it never goes to it and charities also do not put the money forth.

@ew374 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

AFRICAN MAN GET 🏈 ⚽️ 🏀!!!!!!AND GO PROTECT YOUR WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😡😡😡

@DavidEdghill-or4ti March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

Such exploitation. Come on Africa, let's love each other and respect those who are less well off! 😢❤

@nanapato894 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

As a South African, I understand how the Khanyans feel about the foreigners working for small wages. The same thing the Ugandians are doing is what Kimmbabians do when they come here. On the other hand, i understand everyone needs money to support their families.

@amiradrena March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

"blame talk" SO PROFESSIONAL

@TheFrancis2024 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

How can I help, how can I contribute and how can I communicate with the ones who Need help.

@amosmwesigye3045 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

So you leave a poor country to get a job in a poorer country? What kind of logic is that

@oladeindeabayomi8735 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

The european rape and murder of females is institutionalised depravity.

@chrisoketch2313 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

I should get a lady from this side

@emmareilly5141 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

These dear ladies and girls deserve so much better. Im white and english and wages here bearly make it for me to have my own place to stay and im 43 my kids r older and live alone thank goodness for them but i wish these ladies could do the jobs in the placss they want to be in and be lived for who they are or even come to contried that would love their work and could let them learn and flourish. Keep strong dear girls and knkw we women of the wolrd and men love u all dearly. God bless allah bless 🙌 🙏 ✨️ ♥️

@GeorgiaStein March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

What happened to Scovia after one term at the private boarding school?

@ekdaufin1485 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

Sexual harassment and rape must also be a problem.

@mabhanzi March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

So so sad and evil selfish and cruel why would you employ someone who’s coming to help takecare of your house chores bcoz you’re just a lazy ASS disgusting! In my family of 4children 3girls and 1little brother we used to have maids and we never ever abused swore or disrespected them bcoz we are not EVIL we still have a maid today and what we eat she eats if we have breakfast she too can have brekkie lunch and supper same story even though fortunately my big sister and I left home years ago we pay the maid who’s a neighbour and we love and appreciate her we’ve never ever disrespected her EVER or looked down on her EVER so these cruel people should be banned from bringing people to the country to ABUSE DISRESPECT TORTURE STARVE they actually be ARRESTED who do they think they are really just bcoz she scrubs your house and she’s from poor background doesn’t mean she’s a puppet or a bunching bag she’s there bcoz you’re lazy no good SODS cruel and UGLY INSIDE AND OUTSIDE but you know KARMA IS A BITCH IT MIGHT NOT STRIKE YOU PERSONALLY BUT IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN AND OTHER FAMILIES AND PEOPLE YOU KNOW BE VERY CAREFUL IT WILL BE 100times over for you! For Godsake kindness is free and easier than being CRUEL AND HEARTLESS
I HOPE SOME OF THE CRUEL IDIOTS READ OUR REVIEWS “THAT IS IF THEY CAN READ🙄” and see what we think of them! 😡😡

@chefbrokenwind3790 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

That's why the white man refuses to leave so called south Africa, the women that work for them keep them happier than they wives smh.

@dorminhocasonhadora8944 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

The girl with the claw scars on her neck and the woman with long, sharp claws denying she made the scars 😖

@JemHadar422 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

I believe Mercy

@louiseolsen1282 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

Even in Africa.."they're stealing our jobs".

@birungiwinfred2328 March 15, 2025 - 1:30 pm

Then you here Ugandan government blug on how we are in the middle status of income.

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