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Why it's not always milk and honey with the jobs abroad

A sad domestic worker. (Courtesy/iStock)

The government has come out strongly in the push to send Kenyans to work abroad. The Kenyan diaspora is becoming the forty-fifth tribe in our tribal country. This is coming up more than two decades since Kenyan women began to move to the gulf to work as domestic workers. The world has become a global village and labour will move from points of high concentration to zones where it is needed.

But there is need for caution!

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