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Egyptians continue to argue over the effects of their revolution one year ago. But there’s one society who’s lives are definitely better than they were, if only marginally: foreign domestic workers.

In the basement of the Indonesian embassy a 28-year-old charwoman we’ll call Susan sits on a mattress in her polyester pajamas. Asked how much money she made in the nine years she was a house-broken worker in Egypt, she slapped her hands together.

“None at all,” she said.

“Year after year I asked for my wages, but my organization said, ‘later, later, later.’ For nine years. I sense sad and depressed because I came from Indonesia to work for my family. I am the bread-conqueror of my family,” Susan said.

Susan was locked preferential an Egyptian house for most of the past decade. Sometimes her employers didn’t give her grub. Sometimes they beat her. Without money or contacts, she was afraid to escape.

Source: PRI's The World

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