Filipino workers flock to leave crisis-hit Lebanon

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Filipino workers flock to leave crisis-hit Lebanon
The New Arab & agencies

Hundreds of Filipinos, most of them female domestic workers, flocked to their embassy in Lebanon on Thursday to sign up for free repatriation from the crisis-hit country.

The embassy issued a statement linking its offer of a free ticket home to Lebanon's free-falling economy.

"More than 1,000 Filipinos, mostly women with some children in tow, arrived in droves to the Philippine embassy in Beirut to register for free mass repatriation scheduled in February next year," a statement said.

Read more at: https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/12/5/filipino-workers-flock-to-leave-crisis-hit-lebanon

And on top of this, check some of the flooding that is in Lebanon at the moment:

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1202631507527045120