M.W. Amita Kumari, a 30-year-old woman from Dahaiyagama, Anuradhapura, went to Kuwait last May through the ‘Pujaneeya’ Foreign Employment Agency. After working for a month in a house, she had blood in her urine. She told the people she worked for, and they reported it to the Kuwait Foreign Employment Agency. The agency then informed the Sri Lankan agency, but instead of helping, they scolded her.
Things got worse when her employers took her phone while she was talking to her husband and hit her with a glass perfume bottle. After this, she was kept for two weeks without medical care. She did not get her monthly salary of 120 dinars, and her husband had to pay 3.5 lakhs to bring her back to Sri Lanka.
She has made 10 complaints to the Sri Lankan Foreign Employment Bureau, but no one has helped, and they keep asking her to drop the complaint.
