A Filipina domestic worker in Kuwait who lost contact with her husband in the Philippines for several years is safe and has returned home.
On February 19, the domestic worker’s husband, Rogelio Padilla, pleaded for help, via a journalist, for help to look for his wife, who he had not been in contact with since 2013.
His wife, Maricel Agustin, went to work in Kuwait in 2011. Newsline Philippines reports that she was supposed to return to the Philippines in 2014 but that her employer did not allow her to leave.
Padilla said that the last contact he had with his wife was in 2013, when a friend of Agustin’s sent him a photo of her in her employer’s home in Kuwait. Remittances home from Augustin stopped in 2014.
Padilla recently reached out for help in finding Augstin, prompting her employment agency to look for her.
On Tuesday morning, Philippines labor secretary Silvestre Bello III said Agustin had been found and was repatriated on February 24 (Saturday). He said Agustin’s employment agency saw a Facebook post written by a journalist contacted by Padilla. The agency then contacted the employer.
Bello said Agustin did not have a mobile phone in Kuwait and therefore had no means of communicating with her family in the Philippines.
Tama yan para sa safety measure ng ating mga kababayan na nagtatrabaho bilang dh saan mang panig ng mundo…..
Wala na kc pakialam ang agency pagkatapos makadeploy ng mga katulong!! Tapos na cla magkapera !!
diba magkasabwat ang agency at ang employer????????????
Elena Dizon , binabaliwala lang nila kc alam nilang d nman totally napapansin yan ng kawani ng govt. Kaya malakas loob ng mga yan
Rowela Victoria Moralida Lugmao Matagal ng dapat na may monitoring system. Tamad ang ibang agency at ang DH dapat din matutong makipag communicate sa Agency niya
tama po
:'( :'( :'(
Ibig sabihin di sya nagpadala sa family nya for so many years
sa kasamaan palad huli na ang lahat..yumao n c ate bangkay n naiuwi..RIP kbayan condolence sa family po…
Syempre kumita na mga hinayupak na agency kea la na sila paki????
Dapat nga ganyan. Every week monitoring at mobile must be with us. Di katulad 3-4 hours a day ko lng hawak phone ko nakaw pa vdeocall ko. Page Friday pwede. For one hour lang sa family ko
Pera lng alam ng agency…and to some employer they think the owner of life of shakala….uffff……kadama mis haywana…kadama nass…porket ngbyad ng malki mga employer eh akla e pg aari na…tas ipagbawal pa cp…e npklayo ng pinas sa kuwait…
Agre po.
Sino kaya amo nya? Ang una kung amo bawal na bawal ang phone hindi ka makatawag sa pinas at hindi rin makatawg ang pinas sa kuwait bawal talaga makausap mo mo lang ang pamilya mo sa sulat lamang . Kahit mag tapun ng basura sa labas ayaw nila ipatapun sa katulong. Pero ok lang din sila kasi libre sa lahat ang pag kain ok lang at saka sila ang nag luluto mag linis lang ang katulong. Sabi ng kasama ko may isang pinay daw noon na pina police ng dahil nahuli sya kausap ang ate nya sa phone un pina police daw agad
Tama