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The Unseen and Undefended

Househelps

THE BEST FRIEND YOU HARDLY NOTICE.
By Robert Macharia. Kenya.

hen someone through with her tasks she will tend towards someone you have entrust-
mentions the word: to my garden”, or “this compound ed with your baby since the age of 6
‘house-helps’ trust should be clean”, or “I told her if months, and surely there is nothing
Wme it attracts all she ever touches my kids I will skin good to say about him or her? How
forms of negative comments that her alive”, or “should she try her you treat her so badly but yet your
spread like wild fire, such as: “she stupidity, I will beat her up and the baby at some point will cry when
knows what I will do once I get next day l call my mother in the you are not around but you still
into that house”, or “she has done village to send for a replacement”, expect her to be very nice?
zero work today and has to pack or “she eats way too much and I
and leave for there are many other must measure everything at night Think about yourself in that house
willing people that are jobless”, or since I am not here to make her fat during the second month with that
“I have that extra job when she is in my house”. All this negativity baby. Weren’t you going crazy? Rath-

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