{"id":2435,"date":"2024-11-09T11:40:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-hidden-lives-of-housegirls-bbc-africa-eye-documentary\/"},"modified":"2024-11-09T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:40:59","slug":"the-hidden-lives-of-housegirls-bbc-africa-eye-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-hidden-lives-of-housegirls-bbc-africa-eye-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Lives Of &#39;Housegirls&#39; &#8211; BBC Africa Eye documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/21G98xWA6qE?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In Uganda, young women are leaving their homes to try and find jobs as domestic workers, but for some their new lives can lead to mistreatment and abuse.<\/p>\n<p>A charity in Kenya is calling for the introduction of laws to protect domestic workers, who are commonly referred to as \u2018housegirls\u2019, to ensure their safety.<\/p>\n<p>For BBC Africa Eye, reporter Nancy Kacungira has been investigating why young women living near Uganda\u2019s border are leaving their villages to find work in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribetoafrica<br \/>\nWebsite: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/africa<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcnewsafrica\/<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=21G98xWA6qE\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Uganda, young women are leaving their homes to try and find jobs as domestic workers, but for some their new lives can lead to mistreatment and abuse. A charity in Kenya is calling for the introduction of laws to protect domestic workers, who are commonly referred to as \u2018housegirls\u2019, to ensure their safety. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3934168192,"featured_media":2436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[434,1321,1318,15,1317,1320,1319,369,3180,1323,21,3344,3602,3597,3596,40,3598,3599,3601,3603,3600,3332],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie","tag-africa","tag-africa-eye","tag-africa-news","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-africa","tag-bbc-africa-eye","tag-bbc-africa-news","tag-bbc-documentary","tag-bbc-documentary-2019","tag-bbc-investigation","tag-documentary","tag-documentary-2019","tag-domestic-workers","tag-house-girls","tag-housegirls","tag-investigation","tag-investigation-bbc","tag-investigative-journalism","tag-kenya","tag-maids","tag-nancy-kacungira","tag-uganda","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3934168192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}