When an Israeli wind accident accident her employer’s area in southern Lebanon, Andaku (now not her actual identify) discovered herself all lonely, locked within and terrified.

The 24-year-old Kenyan lady has been operating in Lebanon as a home associate for the month 8 months, however she says the terminating past has been the hardest as Israel’s army has intensified its bombardment of what it has mentioned are Hezbollah objectives around the nation.

“There were a lot of bombings. It was too much. My employers locked me in the house and left to save their own lives,” she tells BBC News Arabic.

The sound of explosions has left Andaku traumatised. She has lost track of how many days she was left alone in the house before her employers returned.

“When they came back, they threw me out. They never paid me and I had nowhere to go,” she says, including that she was once fortunate enough quantity to possess sufficient resources to catch a bus to the capital, Beirut.

Andaku’s story is not the only one.

Last Friday, UN officials said most of Lebanon’s nearly 900 government-organised shelters were full following the escalation of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, and expressed concern for the tens of thousands of mostly female domestic workers in the country.

According to the International Organization for Migration, there are around 170,000 migrant workers in Lebanon. Many of them are women from Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and the Philippines.

“We’re receiving expanding stories of migrant home employees being alone via their Lebanese employers, both left at the streets or of their houses as their employers elude,” Mathieu Luciano, the IOM’s head of office in Lebanon, told a press briefing in Geneva.

Mina (also not her real name) is from Uganda and has been a domestic worker in Lebanon for one year and four months.

She tells the BBC she was mistreated by the family she worked for and decided to escape and return to her agency.

Hoping she would receive help, Mina said she was shocked to learn that she had to work for another family on a two-year contract before she could return home.

“When I returned to the [agency], I told them I had worked enough to be able to pay for my ticket and return back home. They took my money and asked me to work in a house for two years to be able to travel home,” the 26-year-old says.

Having to live with the continuous sounds of explosions led to Mina’s mental health being affected. She was not able to do her assigned domestic tasks properly, so she asked her new employer to leave.

She had been working for a family in Baalbek, a city in the Bekaa Valley in north-eastern Lebanon.

“[The family] had beaten me, pushed me and thrown me out… There were so many bombs at that time. When I left, I had nowhere to go,” she says.

Another domestic worker from Kenya, Fanaka, 24, says her agency would send her to work in different homes every two months and that she suffered from continuous headaches.

“I’ve been looking to do my very best at paintings, however no one is born best possible,” she says.

The ladies say they confronted many demanding situations presen residing at the streets, as many shelters refused to speed them in, claiming they had been reserved for displaced Lebanese and now not foreigners.

All 3 controlled to achieve Caritas Lebanon, a non-governmental organisation that has been offering aid and coverage for migrant employees since 1994.

In audio recordings despatched to the BBC, migrant employees from Sierra Leone mentioned dozens of them remained stranded at the streets of Beirut and had been in determined want of meals.

Others informed native media that they had been denied access to government-organised shelters in faculties as a result of they weren’t Lebanese.

The BBC contacted native government, who denied any method of discrimination.

Resources from the ministry of schooling informed the BBC: “No specific centres have been designated for foreign domestic workers, but at the same time, they have not been refused entry.”

It’s understood that some employees are heading off respectable shelters, fearing consequences over their incomplete criminal documentation.

Hessen Sayah Korban, head of the safety segment at Caritas Lebanon, says her NGO is recently sheltering round 70 migrant home employees, who’re principally moms with youngsters.

She says extra investment is wanted as a way to grant refuge for as much as 250 home employees who’ve both been alone via their employers or are homeless and had their respectable paperwork confiscated.

“We are trying to provide them with all the help needed; it can be legal, mental or physical.”

She provides that many home employees require aid with their psychological fitness as a result of they have got been traumatised.

For the reason that starting of October, the IOM has won greater than 700 untouched requests from folk looking for aid to go back to their nations of starting place.

Ms Korban says Caritas, in conjunction with alternative NGOs, is aiding the alone home employees short of to reduce via co-ordinating with the IOM, numerous embassies and consulates, and the Lebanese safety products and services.