Comfort Adu, a Ghanaian woman living in Egypt, shared her story of being deceived into traveling there in search of a lucrative job. Despite her efforts, she has been unemployed for over a year and was eventually sold to another agent due to her limited English proficiency.According to Comfort, she initially found employment upon arriving in Egypt, but her difficulties with the language led to her losing the job.

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Her agency struggled to find her alternative employment, leaving her without a place to stay or enough food to eat.“On my first day here, I found out from the other women that not knowing English would make it hard for me to acquire a job. I approached my agent about it, but he said no. I obtained a job a week later, but I had to quit since they didn’t feed me,” the woman remarked.

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Comfort was later sold by her agency to another, under the guise of it being a training exercise for her next job. She was forced to pay $2000 to retrieve her passport after it was confiscated.“He assured me that she would train me for my next job and teach me English. I heard they sell people here, so I inquired whether he was going to do the same for me. He refuted it.

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The woman confirmed that he owed her, and I was to work and pay that debt off,” she narrated.Comfort alleges that the agent promised her a monthly salary of GHS4000 in Egypt in exchange for charging her GHS35,000. However, despite her payment, she remained unemployed for over a year.

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