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.
Huwag na ksi magpadla ng dh sa lugar na yan.mga hyop tao dyan.aq din noon sa saudi aq nsaksak aq ng employer q na babae..mbuti nkauwi aq na buhay..
dapat agency ang nagmomonitor jan palibhasa ang daming mukhang pera naibigay na nila ang katulong sa amo wala na silang pakialam sana bangungutin kayu ng konsensya nyu mga walng puso
Ung mga agency nga ang kumukuha ng mga celphone,pagdating palang galing pinas kinukuha na sa agency kz bawal daw,magagalit daw ang employer,ung agency q d2 sa kuwait ung kam agency ,super bastos ung secretarya z miss aishah,walang respeto sa kapwa pilipino nya,pag may complain ka sa employer mo xa ang nagagalit at nanlalait sa kapwa nya pilipino
Wala siya kontak sa ilan taon ibig sabijhin d rin nagpafala pera.. umuwi siya dala naman jsya nya pera nya… after that dspat report sa kuwsit gov para nabiyan nv leksyon
In deed
Very bad employer…
Maalala ko first time ko punta ng hi sabi ng Agency bawal ang mobile,imagine 2 yrs contract pano na pamilya kung dimo makontak within 2yrs,yun lang isang araw nag-alala kana sa anak mo,2yrs.pa,tapos ipagkakait phone
Dapat bayaran cya…
During the previous admins baliwala lng sa kanila ang kalagayan ng OFWs. So discouraging to ask for assistance from embassies and consular offices…
Big correct po yan .
Big corrrco lahat NG sinabi mo kabayan.dapat once na nadeploy na Ang ofw sila na Ang may turngkulin Jan para ma monitor Ang mga ofw..at dapat magkaroon NG special task monitoring Ang mga household workers kase yon Ang madaming naabuso..para ma aware Ang mga employer na wag maltratuhin Ang mga dh dahil batid NG amo na namo monitor sila.kaya nga nilagyan NG embassy Ang bawat bansa na may ofw ? Anong silbi NG rmbasse at owwa na nilagay sa abroad kung Hindi Naman Napo protektahan Tau?
Agree mostly kc sa agency wla n pkialam after kunin ng employer ang kasambahay dapat imonitor from time to time kalagayan aplikante nila di lng puro pera bsta kumita na tapos na
Kahit nman wala syang cp. Pwede nman syang susulat, alam nman siguro nya ang address nila sa Pinas. Kung ako yan gagawa ako ng paraan para maka communicate ako sa family ko.
Obligation din ng Embassy dahil sa kanila dumadaan ang gustong kumuha ng worker galing Pilipinas.
Tama po kau
Hnd sya naagapan ? LORD GOD ! Tulongan mo Po na mabigyan Ng hustisya ang ang sinapit Nya.
Kaawaawa Nakakadurog Ng puso ????????????????
Kawawa ang ganda nya dati, cnra lng ng amo ang beauty nya!
Dag2 ko lang po Sir Sec Bello III, pleased create a direct fb, sumbungan ng ofw’s through POAE, DFA,,, para mkapag voice out ang bawat isang ofw sa abroad direct sa office ninyo at malalaman mo ang bawat behavior or attitude ng bawat employee ng embahada natin specially dito sa GCC’s Countries,,, direct fb, messenger at may mga tauhan kyo jan magbabasa ng bawat hinaing ng ofw to give immediate actions….Regards & God Bless Sir,,,, sana po makarating ito sa inyong attention,,,, to imporove more sa buhay nting Pilipinos… OWWA staff mg bawat embassy was useless, impotent, walang silbi , walang ginagawa ma maayus sa bawat ofw’s… this is the reality…
Sana nagpadala nalang ng sulat or nakitawag sa kaibigan or kakilala