Returnee woman migrant worker reunites with her family and starts a small sewing business The husband of Zarina was a rickshaw puller and he died in a road accident in Dhaka. The family led a very hard life after the sudden death of the only earning member of the family. The elder son started to live separately after marriage and did not provide any support to the family. Zarina found it very difficult to earn a livelihood to support the family. “My daughter cannot eat, cannot continue studying and how can I get her married in this miserable financial condition”, she said. In this situation she was contacted by a local sub-agent and she was promised a job abroad. The sub agent made a deal with her to send her abroad without any cost and she got a job as a household worker in Saudi Arabia with a salary of BDT 20,000. “He used to not give me proper food, used to beat me, and was not paying me. Kafil was very bad. Even though he tortured me a lot, as I did not understand the language I could not tell anyone. When I complained to the office through which I got work, they also did not help me. After that Kafil stopped my food,” she said the words with tears in her eyes. She worked in this condition for one year and four months. For the first four months, she received her salary and sent it to her daughter. After that she was not paid any salary, and she could not contact her family. When the inhuman behavior, injustice and torture became unbearable, Zarina went to the police station and complained against her employer. However, she received no solution after complaining and the amount of torture was increased even more. “Suddenly one day I fell very ill, even after being admitted to the hospital, no treatment was given. I saved some money and with that the office bought me a ticket and put me on the plane’’, she said while crying. At the airport in Bangladesh she found that the lock of her luggage was broken and she was so sick that she could not even speak. She complained to a man dressed as a policeman at the airport, and the police brought her to the Probashi Kallyan desk. She regained her energy by eating dry food, water and juice given by RMMRU on the desk. Unable to contact any member of her family from the desk, the next day at 6 am, she was handed over to a field facilitatior. After six days of continuous search, her family was traced and her younger son, John, arrived at the organization’s service centerand she was handed over to her son. “If you didn’t take me here, where would I find my son? Where would I go? What would I eat? You saved my life. May God bless you mother” Zarima said while hugging the social worker. Reunited with her family, Zarina used the sewing machine given to her to start a new business. Migrant worker dreams of a happy life with her children In 2014, Rabiya’s husband tried to kill her by poisoning her. After that her husband started conflict with Rabiya in various ways. In 2015, her husband married again and threw her out of the house. Since then, Rabiya lives in her father’s house with her brother. She has a son and a daughter. The son is in class seven and the daughter is 15 years old. The husband then took her children away 15

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