A young girl with promising future, but frustrated begining has revealed her ordeal working as a maid in the hands of Nigerian Wealthy people, He story was sent to Humans of New York,
Read below!
“I want to live a happy life. I’m tired of living a poor life. I’m trying to save money for school but nothing is working.
I’ve left home three different times looking for work. The first time I found a job as a housekeeper.
But every morning when I got dressed the man would try to touch me. I was only seventeen.
He wouldn’t even stop when I threatened to tell on him. His wife blamed me for his attention. She beat me severely.There were bruises all over my body. She didn’t even allow me to eat. But I tried to stay because I wanted to go to school so badly.
Then one morning he tried to Rap£ me in the bath, and I finally ran away.
When I found a new housekeeping job, the same thing happened. This time it was a pastor. So a few weeks ago I switched to a cleaning job at an art gallery. But they just fired me for speaking to the visitors.
I don’t know why this always happens to me. It makes me so angry. I get mad at my parents for being poor. I get mad at my friends for going to school. When I see their graduation pictures on Facebook.
I just start crying. I’m already twenty years old. I should be finishing school, but I haven’t even started yet. But everything has it’s own time. Hopefully my time will come too.” (Lagos, Nigeria).
