PHOTO OF THE WEEK:

SLEEPING IN LINE

These ladies, photographed at the office of a job placement agency in Makati City that recruits workers for Iraq, are supposed to be standing in line. They had been standing there for much of the day and so fatigue has got the better of them for the meantime. But they had rather sleep their fatigue off in line than lose their slot. Many of them have been queuing up everyday at the agency for months on end – most of them from Pampanga, a province one and a half hours north of Manila. 

One out of every four Filipino workers in Iraq are women, and most of them are in Camp Anaconda – the biggest base of the U.S. occupation forces north of Baghdad. The three ladies endure the heat of the sun or the whip of the rain hoping for a chance to join their fellow Filipinas in Iraq, as jobs there are known to pay more than thrice what an ordinary worker gets in Metro Manila.

 Photo by Dabet Castañeda/BULATLAT.COM

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