ABU DHABI — Sri Lankan housemaid M.K. Somlata fled from her sponsor as she could not take the work pressure as a result of which she fell sick. The sponsor did not allow her to go out for treatment.
Thirty-four-year-old Somlata came to the UAE in 2004 and worked in the sponsor’s house in Al Ain at Dh500 a month. When her sponsor stopped paying her salary, she fled from Al Ain and went to the Sri Lankan mission in the capital to seek assistance under amnesty.
“When I fell ill due to workload, my sponsor did not give me a single penny for treatment. Since the salary was not enough to bear the cost of treatment, I had to seek assistance from other friends,” Somlata stated.
“It was good that my Sudanese sponsor sent me a visa for free but did not pay me regularly and treated me inhumanely by burdening me with a lot of household work,” Somlata alleged.
Now she wants to go back and return to the UAE on a good-natured sponsor’s visa. “I shall go home and get myself treated and meet my daughter who is alone at home,” she said.