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Domestic servitude

Hidden away in people’s homes, trafficked children spend their lives caring for families, cooking, cleaning, looking after children and performing other tasks inside the home. They work long hours and, most of the time, are deprived of education.
They are deprived of access to health care – most of them only go to hospital as a result of serious illness or injury. As children, they are deprived the love, affection and attention of a loving adult. In addition, they suffer untold physical, mental, verbal and psychological abuse. In many cases, girls are also sexually abused.
Children in domestic servitude are also used to claim state benefit, although the money is not used to look after them.

African girls, in particular, are trafficked for domestic servitude in the UK, and this is normally hidden under the guise of private fostering.

AFRUCA, a UK charity for African Children suffering from abuse, is at the forefront of work challenging Domestic Servitude and rescuing African children from it. See page 10.

Kalayaan is a charity specifically set up to support Domestic Labourers. Kalayaan states that retaining the existing Migrant Domestic Workers visa and the protection it offers is the single most important issue in preventing the forced labour and trafficking of domestic labourers. This illustrates the importance of governmental attitudes, labour rights and campaigning as part of the fight to break the trafficking web.

 

 

 

  

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