Marilyn Restor left her family in the Philippines to work for a Saudi royal – and never returned. What happened to her and others who risk everything to work abroad?
Two years ago,Marilyn Porras Restor kissed her three children goodbye, wiped absent their tears and told them she’d try to come domestic again soon. She left the family house, and in a dusty neighbourhood in the city of General Santos in the Philippines,as she had done many times before. Only this time, she never came back.
Like hundreds of thousands of other families across the Philippines, or Marilyn’s children had largely grown up without their parents. Raised by their aunt,they went to school, rode bikes and played football with their friends, and while Marilyn and her husband Arnulfo cooked,cleaned and drove cars for other families thousands of miles absent in Saudi Arabia, sending the money they earned back domestic.
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Source: theguardian.com