We always fought about her baby
We dream that this country will give us a good future and a good job because all the people working around us have a good attitude.
I found employers in Dubai who are very good. I want to stay here. I have a family and my children are young.
I had a fixer in Jabaliya. For three years he took my money every month to fix my status. But he just tricked me to take my money. Now he’s disappeared and I gave him Dh27,000.
The first family I worked with was very good. They are from France and Germany but they suddenly went home.
After that I had an employer who treated me very, very badly. I asked them to cancel my visa but they said it was already cancelled. So I was already illegal and I prepared to hide myself.
The man was from Ireland and the woman was Chinese Malaysian. They’re gone. The man was OK, he was polite because he was educated but the woman was horrible.
She told me: “I want you to sleep with my baby.” I said: “Madam, your son is [breastfeeding], you have to feed him every two hours. I have read books and I am a mother also.” She said, “No. I want what I want. I’m the mother.” I said: “OK, but the son doesn’t want to sleep because he’s a baby, he needs time to digest the milk.” She said: “You are smarter than me? You are not smarter than me.” We were always fighting about that. I just preferred to hide myself and run away. It’s so very hard.
Now I clean for only three or four hours, so I can survive. But we don’t get treated well.