Watch: Kenyan domestic worker abandoned in Beirut with belongings in garbage bag

The impact of Lebanon’s dire economic situation and the aftermath of the devastating Beirut explosion on domestic workers is being amplified after a video of a woman abandoning her maid near the Kenyan embassy in the capital went viral.

Lebanese activists have been sharing a video of a woman in her luxury car abandoning her maid on the street in front of the Kenyan consulate in the capital Beirut while other Kenyan women shout their anger at what they were seeing.

English | August 20, 2020

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