Migrant employees predicament put up Fifa World Cup: ‘There is genuinely no work in Qatar now’

“I haven’t eaten in two days,” says a employee from Guinea presently in Qatar.

Another employee says he has been asking folks again house to provide him cash. Just over 100 days after the conclusion of the Fifa World Cup, migrant employees in Qatar are struggling to search out work, in accordance with a report in The Guardian.

Those with ‘free visas’ – lots of whom The Guardian spoke to – beneath which they will discover jobs, haven’t had the chance to work for months.

“Ironic, isn’t it?” says a employee. “We are in the richest country in the world, but we are begging for money from Africa.”

There are additionally employees who entered the nation on Hayya playing cards, the allow wanted to go to Qatar through the World Cup. According to The Guardian, the validity of the cardboard has been prolonged until subsequent 12 months however it may be used just for tourism. Some of the employees paid almost $4,500 to brokers to get a Hayya card and had been promised that they might be given a job on reaching the World Cup vacation spot.

“I used to eat three square meals at home but here it’s difficult to get one. I have been calling friends in Nigeria to help me. I have not earned a single rial since I entered the country. We’re all regretting coming here,” one other employee Hakeem says.

“I wish to go house, however I don’t wish to go house. The cash I owe is conserving me right here, Ahmad, from Nigeria, stated.

According to a supply The Guardian spoke to, job alternatives are unlikely to select up for migrant employees.

“There is genuinely no work here now. No one is recruiting. There’s only so many highways and roads that they need,” the supply who works within the development line in Qatar, stated.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino had stated earlier than the beginning of the World Cup that migrant employees get dignity and delight.

“Let’s not forget one thing when we speak about this topic, which is work, even hard work, tough work,” Infantino stated. “America is a country of immigration. My parents emigrated as well from Italy to Switzerland. Not so far, but still. When you give work to somebody, even in hard conditions, you give him dignity and pride. It’s not charity.”

According to the report in The Guardian, most of the affected employees are from West Africa – Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Niger.