Two million Filipinos (OFWs or Overseas Foreign Workers) are employed in Qatar as migrant workers, but that number is decreasing slightly as a result of the world financial crisis. Recently laid off workers don't have the money to return home, and as a result they are begging in the streets of Qatar for food. Some industrious Filipinos walk to the fish market where they collect shrimp heads that were discarded in the trash by shrimp venders. They boil these to make soup and hope that they can find some rice to eat with this makeshift meal.
The video below is in Tagalog, but you can see the Filipinos collecting the shrimp heads at the market. Is this part of the flat world that Thomas Friedman writes about in his award winning book?
I was talking to Thai Henry about his niece and asked about her girlfriend (who is very nice looking) - he said she
"went to Dubai to look for work.."
Posted by: Slugbug | December 23, 2008 at 09:29 PM