Solidarity Center Report: Former Child Domestic Worker Describes Years of Forced Labor
Thursday, June 19, 2014(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
At age 9, Evelyn Chumbow was trafficked overseas from Cameroon to become a
domestic worker for a family in Maryland. She worked from 6 a.m. to midnight,
seven days a week, was forced to sleep on the floor without a room of her own
and regularly beaten. Each day, she took her employer’s children to school,
but was not allowed to attend. At 17 she escaped, but had no identification and
didn’t know her birthday or age. Although child labor has decreased globally
in recent years, child labor in domestic work has increased by 9 percent in the
past four years. Nearly half of child domestic workers are under age 14, and
nearly all are girls. Read more at the Solidarity Center.