KUWAIT CITY: The murder of Joanne Demafelis, a Filipina maid whose body was found in a freezer in Kuwait, has triggered outrage and prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to order a deployment ban on other Filipino workers planning to work in the Gulf state.
But the estimated 252,000 Filipinos and Filipinas working in Kuwait must weigh their fear of sharing the fate of Demafelis against the potential loss of vital income for their families.
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