Mohammed Bin Naif Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, speaks during the Summit for Refugees and Migrants at U.N. headquarters, Sept. 19, 2016. Seth Wenig. All rights reserved.Tens of thousands of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia are starving. They have limited access to clean drinking water, electricity, and medical care. Trash piles up in the dozens of labor camps they are forced to occupy, leading to squalid conditions in their cramped quarters. Everyone is out of work, and their money is running out, if it hasn’t run out already.
It is impossible for them to pay back the exorbitant debts they accumulated in order to move to Saudi Arabia. They are also now unable to send valuable remittances back to their families in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. They are not the only ones who are suffering; without money, their families are also starving, and many have been left unable to pay for their children to attend school.
No one has been paid in months - their employers, neglected payment by the state, have left these workers with nothing.
