Elizabeth Kawogo's story, madhila aliyokumbana nayo msaidizi wa ndani Mtanzania huko Ulaya

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Story by Freddy Macha, photos by Ayoub Mzee of Ben TV When the door is opened, Mariam Kilumanga flashes a broad smile. So does one of her te...


Story by Freddy Macha, photos by Ayoub Mzee of Ben TV


When the door is opened, Mariam Kilumanga flashes a broad smile. So does one of her teenage children; but then she yells out for the chief guest in her house.
I hear footsteps treading down the stairs; in trepidation. I have read all the court papers, and perused all the claims and counter claims. I have even spoken to the woman herself on the phone and heard the stories.
I have listened to one of my editors and chatted with London's Ben TV presenter and blogger Ayoub Mzee. Yes, the story has all the details: but it does not tally with the person standing before me with tearful eyes and in a green yellow kanga.
I had expected a young and robust 25-year-old. At that age, a woman is ripe, ready and full of zest. I'm in shock that I dare not show. This is not the way Africans look in London. This is Ulaya, a place of dreams for many back home. Or is something wrong with my vision?
Yes, here is someone who has been to hell and back. Elizabeth Kawogo was born in Njombe, Tanzania, 25 years ago. Having dropped out of school because her parents could not afford fees she went to Dar es Salaam in 1997, aged 15, to try her luck in the city.
"I wanted a better life," she says timidly.
Shy, humble, forlorn; I have to strain my ears to hear what she is saying. After having spoken for a while, she refuses to allow me to take her picture. Even when Mariam Kilumanga, her guide and defender, has reassured that her story will help other people in similar (or worse) circumstances; she is still suspicious. Her face should not be shown in the media, she says. I realise this is a frightened woman.
Even though a London labour tribunal declared that her employers, Mr and Mrs Ramzan Dhanji, had discriminated against her and ordered them to pay 58,585 sterling pounds in compensation, she is still not comfortable. Not comfortable to even talk about her future plans.
And the sad thing, according to the grapevine in the Tanzanian community in London, there are many others like her. She is neither the first nor the last, someone whispers, as soon as I mention the case.
The court was told that Elizabeth had been working as a cleaner for Mrs Zainab Alibhai in Dar es Salaam since June 2004.
She then agreed with Mrs Alibhai to go with her to the UK to serve her as a domestic helper and assist her during the period she was to undergo medical treatment in London.
Between June 2006 and May, last year, Elizabeth was turned into a domestic animal, working up to 105 hours a week and sleeping in the most appalling of conditions. The judge reprimanded her employers, saying they should not treat domestic workers the way they do back in Tanzania.
Their defence was that she was a guest of the family and had agreed to work voluntarily. Is that why they did not pay her a single cent? Is that why she had to use toilet paper during her monthly periods, when women require extra sanitation?
Is that why she had no warm clothes during the cold winters? Is that why she was not permitted to eat the good food she cooked for her bosses but instead was given stale bread and leftovers?
No wonder, Elizabeth is so traumatised that she is scared to even have her photograph taken. There is a big lesson here.
It's a lesson for our poor ill-educated people - individuals from remote villages and shantytowns who are often taken for a ride by crafty and powerful people.
Luckily, Elizabeth met people who lent her a hand and liberated this dismayed Njombe woman.
Fortunately, when Elisabeth went to church, she found sympathy in Bertha, who introduced her to Patricia Mzena of TAWA (London's Tanzanian Women Association).
Then with Mariam Kilumanga and with assistance from Mrs Radhia Msuya (then at Tanzania High Commission), she was removed from her tormentors.
Luckily, for Elizabeth, she is now free. But what about the many others still suffering similar ordeals?
Who will hear and bail them out?
The British High Commission in Dar es Salaam?
Who?Freddy Macha is writer and musician working in the media and entertainment business since 1976.
Email: kilimanjaro1967@hotmail.com
Blog: www. freddymacha. blogspot.com
Watch the full interview with Elizabeth Kawogo on THE DIALOGUE program presented by Ayoub mzee on Monday the 18th august 2008 FROM 10AM- 12 noon on BEN TV SKY 194
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