Thanking you for the donation ...
You guys probably still remember about the post asking for your un-used old items. On the 5th of December 2006, we distributed the stuffs to this camp.
Personally, I’ve seen this type of situation on television, but seeing it in person was pretty shocking. It’s difficult to believe that with so much wealth in this country, there are people who live in these conditions.
The 40+ men in the villa are laborers that were abandoned by their employer and sponsor with no pay, nowhere to live, no transportation and no means of leaving the country to return to their homes. Their sponsor left them with no exit visa and no release, so they are stuck in Doha, unable to transfer their sponsorship, seek work and due to their language limitations, mostly unable to seek help. They are for the most part Nepalese, but there are also a handful of Vietnamese men who, unfortunately, don’t even have an embassy to recourse to. Unfortunately, there are thousands more like this, but this is a start…
A Nepalese business man who runs a manpower business is doing all he can to keep these abandoned men afloat. He has rented a villa to house them, and tries to find them odd jobs here and there, but the needs of these men have proved to be too great – and so he is reaching out to the community for any kind of help. Although he is not specifically asking for money, many of the things they need have to be purchased somehow. The villa is quite run down, and while the men can do their own repairs and building, they need materials to do so.
We are thinking to do another batch ... but still try to think about the collection point since the school will be close soon because of christmas break.
In the mean time here is the lists what they really need:
Basic food staples: fruit, rice, lentils, noodles, soy sauce, etc. as well as plates, eating utensils, napkins, etc.
Kitchen appliances, refrigerator/freezer, used, in good condition. The refrigerator would be really important for the summer to store their food items.
Phone cards, so that they can communicate with their families back home.
Any old clothing, shoes, toiletries.
I attached some photos so you can have a look what is the place really like.
Again thanks alot for any donation have been sent to them.
PS: Just crossed my mind ... if anyone have old unused stove that want to get rid off, we will take it. We only saw 1 stove to cook between these 40+ guys.
i think some of indonesian embassy people regularly visiting them to give some food,etc. So you can go there and give your donation to them.thanks
id like more info on donating to the womens jail....i have lots of baby stuff
Honey, I'd heard something of the sort, but haven't really delved much into it. As we collect used clothing and articles for the men, we receive women's articles as well.
Do you know of anyone who is organizing a collection? Do your group of friends visit regularly?
Contact [email protected] with any information you might have.
Best wishes.
few times ago a group of my indonesian girlfriend, visited the women jail, it's packed of indonesian maid, and they have babies inside there too..they only young and so desperate women, and unluckly there is no process at all to put them out of jail..someone pls help for used clothes and milk for the babies..
The HRC - Human Rights Committee has already been contacted, per our contact. The only thing they've promised to do is try to make the sponsor pay what is owed if and when he is found.
I agree that this is unacceptable, albeit widespread, behavior.
However, what HR department? Their sponsor skipped town. They are not fortunate to be employed by a company that has an HR dept.
Once again, for those of you who want to help, contact [email protected] or me, through my link.
Only Love & Respect of Others Makes Human.
Apologies. By HR I meant, local Human Rights Office. I hear its pretty much an independent entity.
I agree that this is unacceptable, albeit widespread, behavior.
However, what HR department? Their sponsor skipped town. They are not fortunate to be employed by a company that has an HR dept.
Once again, for those of you who want to help, contact [email protected] or me, through my link.
Only Love & Respect of Others makes us Human.
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I want to help, but I guess we collectively write a letter to the local HR office and get them out of the country.
This is not an acceptable behavior in the "City of the Future"
Thanks for your sincere interest and responses.
First of all, to clarify things a bit - the embassies for some of these laborers have been contacted and all the possible legal recourses of action are currently being followed. Unfortunately, some of the workers are Vietnamese and do not have their own Embassy to look after them. However, while they wait for justice and to be able to return home, they are in desperate need of basic assistance, as described in Novita's post.
As far as I've learned, cases like these are numerous in this country. The embassies will not or can not effectively handle thousands of reported cases of sponsor abuse, so we can't solely depend on them. Embassies are generally not equipped to support and financially maintain their country-folk.
Their sponsor skipped town, so:
- they can't go home because their visas have not been cleared for exit
- they can't switch sponsors and retain another job
- they're s.o.l. until the "justice system" does its thing.
As far as a drop for goods and other such things - you can click on my contact link and I'll get back to you with our drop-off points, info, etc.
One of the things we had talked about, and Tyler, I think this speaks more to your idea - is getting families or individuals to "adopt" the group for a week. Depending on your means, whether you purchase a single sack of rice, a large bag of potatoes or lentils, or go grocery shopping for enough food for one week, we would, essentially, increase the "buying power" as Tyler says, by extending the donations week by week and not receiving things all at once. If you commit to donate sometime this month, someone else might commit to donate sometime in January, and so forth.
Anyway - shoot me an e-mail those of you who are interested in helping out and I'll give you more info!
Let's try to give these guys some hope!
Thanks for caring!
Take care, all!
Please send me an e-mail to : [email protected] and I can send you all the details. For the moment the best is to drop it in my house or I can come to collect it.
I dont know if its me who does not accept e-mail, maybe I did something wrong at the registration.
she does not accept emails....but thank you Mr. Moderator
please use the contact link in user profile to get in touch with members
Also, would my husband and i be able to come to their villa and help clean?
I have a lot of items that i can donate. Where would i need to bring them?
The nepalese men who looks after them told me that their cases are under investigation by the human rights commitee and the labour dept. I dont know the details, and how long it will take. But in the time beeing they need food, shelter. Thanks a lot.
Please do not mis-understand this!!!!
If these men cannot work, earn money, have no proper place to live, no real food etc... would it not be better to try to organise, assist, donate for them to leave Qatar rather than sustain them here with a very bleak future (and for how long?).
I would hope that someone is working on this aspect, keeping them going in the interim is great but long term? Has anyone started repatriation for them? They must have some legal recourse through their Embassy.
Surely they would wish to be far away from this experience. Please let me know if this is being looked at already.
We will more than willing to take funds. We are thinking to built 2 or 3 more decent bathrooms for them. Mr.Gokur said he is not too keen taking the cash ... (he don't want people think he used the money for his personal need), what he would like to do is to received material for building the bathroom as these guys can make it their own (no labour cost).
As for other items for kitchens. Can i have your e-mail contact please? I want to put you in touch with another lady who arranging this.
Thanks Tyler :-)
These guys here illegally ... most of the stories i heard is they come here and work for 6 months. Never being paid then the employer bankrupt and disappear with their passports. They were living on the street till this Nepalese businessman (Mr.Gokur) found them.
I don't know what the legal stand of the new employer gonna be since strictly speaking by law these guys have to get a released letter from their old employer???
Are they willing to work for some company as workers. there is a possibility but not 100% guranteed.
Many of us have few items to spare but plenty of funds. I would be more than willing to go shopping for many of these items. Perhaps we could get a small group together and make it to the wholesale souk and buy a large amount of the desired items. Buying power of the group would be greatly increased .