Part 5:
The past few days have been sad for me and my family. From learning that the nanny we entrusted our daughter with was a convicted criminal with various offences ranging from theft to forging identities, to having to deal with the police and the unrepentant maid center owner.
However, I was convinced I needed to share the story despite it opening my family to the public. Someone else needs to learn from my family's ordeal. So after doing part 1 and part 2 and posting them in the Kwamwena Valley WhatsApp groups, I got a lot of feedback which I will now share as part 5.
Essentially, in this part I just reproduce the feedback that came from people after reading part 1 and 2. Publishing everything here below without editing anything, just adding quotation marks at the beginning and end of each comment.
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| An old post from Facebook sent to us after it became clear that Bridget has had past misdeeds |
Reactions to the maid center fallacy story:
"Mwe Lesa these maids"
"Yaba 🙆🏽♀️."
"Makes sad reading. That's why some of the girls from these centers are arrogant and entitled because they know they will easily get a job after days of quitting 😕"
"I am glad your efforts paid off."
"This makes sad reading"
"So sad 😞."
"Very sad and unfortunate. I can relate....the more you employ these people the more things you loose in your home."
"Very true actually it's best to get those recommended by someone you know. There will be history and someone can act as surety."
"Maid centers even kubazungu are very risky and you are fortunate if you get a reliable one."
"Eish.... she is. Serious criminal."
"This is the same center I got the one who locked my daughter up and run away.. the owner needs to do a serious back check of her maids…"
"Sorry for your experience but I must hand it to you that you are a very good writer. I enjoyed reading this ordeal. Infact, this needs to be packaged nicely and documented for future reference. If it was fiction, I would have loved for part three up to ten"
"Indeed, can't wait. Meanwhile, there are many lessons from this. I actually see this Maid Center everyday as it is very close to home."
"Yeah, very creative writer 👏. Writing a depressing story in a very lively way. Am sure part 3 to ..... Will be epic 😎"
"Rightly said. I was reading like am reading a novel. Haha.
Am patiently waiting for part 3 and a possible part 4. 😂"
"The author should consider writing suspense fiction. Very engaging writing style."
"😄 yeah. He has made the ordeal enjoyable to read and learn from very easily"
"My first thought. Great storyteller. I rarely read read long write, but this reads like a novel 😀"
"Do you write for a living or something related? I'm sorry about your experience but I've enjoyed reading your narration"
"It's an eye opener, it reminds me of a time when my young sister narrated a story of her workmate who was called by the police whilst at work that her maid was on the wanted list.she had actually gotten her from a maid center. She really panicked by the time she got home, she found her gone."
"I wish the children we have today can go with such traits excellent. I need your Line and your wife."
"We got a maid from this place, the maid used to go with our Daughter to home shops to drink whenever we are at work."
"Useless maid centre. One maid went and a job within one without backing or defences from her previous employers. She's also been taking her friends there for the same"
"Was actually looking at it being turned into a screen play. Despite the ordeal, very good write up 👏👏👏👏."
"Yes. A very good writer indeed. The suspense was so tangible"
"@Mr.A. A suggestion worth pursuing my friend. Very awakening piece."
"Even the advert itself ati child care for weeks and months walisungisha umwana ku day care kwati nakalimo wakutolafye... such places need council intervention to shut them, they pose a risk in our communities."
"Maid Centres are poorly regulated. All of them are not registered anywhere. A good number of maids are not trained contrary to what the people who ran these centres claim. As things stand, anyone can start a centre if he can identify some desperate girls and women looking for a job. These could be thieves, ex sex workers or any unsavoury characters. My advice to anyone looking for a maid is through recommendation by word of mouth. By the way this is how domestic workers were employed in the past. All these vuvuzelad maid centres need to be closed."
"Let's not use a blanket statement,not all are not registered.Genuinly registered/ regulated maid centers exist.Its unfortunate to label everyone vuvuzela ,the language is too strong."
"I am curious to know how background checks are conducted on these girls. Do they just depend on the girls' word of mouth? A background check is a complicated process involving computer databases...finger prints sometimes....so l am truly curious."
"As true as that maybe,some of the categories you are naming can reform.i think its fair to make sure these maid centers do genuine background checks,sex workers,criminals can reform.imagine if its your relative who was in one if these categories and has reformed yet is still stigmatized"
"It would help if maybe one of the maid centers can explain how they conduct their background checks. How do they go about it? It will go a long way to assure potential customers if the process is explained."
"If i was running a maid center i think police clearance is important,a bit expensive but that would ensure only genuine ones are emoloyed,bht also its hightime government introuduces a paedophile register."
"You have touched on an important point, the expense of thorough background checks, and also the existence of various registers to be checked against. So l suppose what l am trying to say is that it is a risk hiring people through these centers because there is no guarantee that a background check was conducted at all!"
"There are no background checks done. Once employed, someone who was on some antidepressants stopped taking the drugs.she went into relapse. She was identified at the psychatric ward as a regular patient, and the maid centre had no idea. Left the family traumatised having lived with such a person for some months."
"Truly sorry for your experience! I think we should all agree and conclude that hiring through these centers is the same as picking someone off the streets and bringing them in your home. The centers give us a false sense of safety."
"I read through this, first and foremost, my attention was on how good your writing skills are...
This is a collective problem that needs to be sorted out by the entire community."
"Mwe Lesa these maids"
"Yaba 🙆🏽♀️."
"I am glad your efforts paid off."
"This makes sad reading"
"So sad 😞."
"Very sad and unfortunate. I can relate....the more you employ these people the more things you loose in your home."
"Very true actually it's best to get those recommended by someone you know. There will be history and someone can act as surety."
"Maid centers even kabazungu are very risky and you are fortunate if you get a reliable one."
"Eish.... she is. Serious criminal."
"This is the same center I got the one who locked my daughter up and run away.. the owner needs to do a serious back check of her maids…"
"Sorry for your experience but I must hand it to you that you are a very good writer. I enjoyed reading this ordeal. Infact, this needs to be packaged nicely and documented for future reference. If it was fiction, I would have loved for part three up to ten"
"Indeed, can't wait. Meanwhile, there are many lessons from this. I actually see this Maid Center everyday as it is very close to home."
"Yeah, very creative writer 👏. Writing a depressing story in a very lively way. Am sure part 3 to ..... Will be epic 😎"
"Rightly said. I was reading like am reading a novel. Haha.
Am patiently waiting for part 3 and a possible part 4. 😂"
"The author should consider writing suspense fiction. Very engaging writing style."
"😄 yeah. He has made the ordeal enjoyable to read and learn from very easily"
"My first thought. Great storyteller. I rarely read read long write, but this reads like a novel 😀"
"Do you write for a living or something related? I'm sorry about your experience but I've enjoyed reading your narration"
"It's an eye opener, it reminds me of a time when my young sister narrated a story of her workmate who was called by the police whilst at work that her maid was on the wanted list.she had actually gotten her from a maid center. She really panicked by the time she got home, she found her gone."
"I wish the children we have today can go with such traits excellent. I need your Line and your wife."
"We got a maid from this place, the maid used to go with our Daughter to home shops to drink whenever we are at work."
"Useless maid centre. One maid went and a job within one without backing or defences from her previous employers. She's also been taking her friends there for the same"
"Was actually looking at it being turned into a screen play. Despite the ordeal, very good write up 👏👏👏👏."
"Yes. A very good writer indeed. The suspense was so tangible"
"@Mr.A. A suggestion worth pursuing my friend. Very awakening piece."
"Even the advert itself ati child care for weeks and months walisungisha umwana ku day care kwati nakalimo wakutolafye... such places need council intervention to shut them, they pose a risk in our communities."
"Maid Centres are poorly regulated. All of them are not registered anywhere. A good number of maids are not trained contrary to what the people who ran these centres claim. As things stand, anyone can start a centre if he can identify some desperate girls and women looking for a job. These could be thieves, ex sex workers or any unsavoury characters. My advice to anyone looking for a maid is through recommendation by word of mouth. By the way this is how domestic workers were employed in the past. All these vuvuzelad maid centres need to be closed."
"Let's not use a blanket statement,not all are not registered.Genuinly registered/ regulated maid centers exist.Its unfortunate to label everyone vuvuzela ,the language is too strong."
"I am curious to know how background checks are conducted on these girls. Do they just depend on the girls' word of mouth? A background check is a complicated process involving computer databases...finger prints sometimes....so l am truly curious."
"As true as that maybe,some of the categories you are naming can reform.i think its fair to make sure these maid centers do genuine background checks,sex workers,criminals can reform.imagine if its your relative who was in one if these categories and has reformed yet is still stigmatized"
"It would help if maybe one of the maid centers can explain how they conduct their background checks. How do they go about it? It will go a long way to assure potential customers if the process is explained."
"If i was running a maid center i think police clearance is important,a bit expensive but that would ensure only genuine ones are emoloyed,bht also its hightime government introuduces a paedophile register."
"You have touched on an important point, the expense of thorough background checks, and also the existence of various registers to be checked against. So l suppose what l am trying to say is that it is a risk hiring people through these centers because there is no guarantee that a background check was conducted at all!"
"There are no background checks done. Once employed, someone who was on some antidepressants stopped taking the drugs.she went into relapse. She was identified at the psychatric ward as a regular patient, and the maid centre had no idea. Left the family traumatised having lived with such a person for some months."
"Truly sorry for your experience! I think we should all agree and conclude that hiring through these centers is the same as picking someone off the streets and bringing them in your home. The centers give us a false sense of safety."
"I read through this, first and foremost, my attention was on how good your writing skills are...
This is a collective problem that needs to be sorted out by the entire community."
"It is I agree with you.
Once I called the center to get me a garden boy. They gave me a number to call. When I called the guy I started interviewing him just to discover he was just also called by the centre to report at my house. So I said,no I can't just have someone from the treet, would rather do it myself than go through the maid center and pay money."
"I once tried this business awe It's note easy mwebantu I tried to get maids from the village and training them still l had issues I closed after 3 months for fear of bn arrested. Let's just start getting family members to help."
"hmmm family members are the worst for me better a stranger who has bn recommended with traceable contact"
"Thank you so much for the story. It is necessary for us to enforce professionalism in these maid centres, I wish you could post all of them on the same group, other centres will learn something.
Bridget Centres
And Racheal Lyato but both not good. Useless"
"Am in need of a garden boy. Am even scared to hire one from the maid center. Anyone who can recommend someone, I will really appreciate. Thanks"
"Eagerly awaiting for all the parts of the story. I too got an addict of nsuko from there who would sleep most of the time."
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