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I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing

By: Maya Angelou

A free bird leaps on the back
Of the wind and floats downstream
Till the current ends and dips his wing
In the orange sun rays
And dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage
Can seldom see through his bars of rage
His wings are clipped and his feet are tied
So he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
Of things unknown but longed for still
And his tune is heard on the distant hill for
The caged bird sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze
And the trade winds soft through
The sighing trees
And the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright
Lawn and he names the sky his own.

But a caged  bird stands on the grave of dreams
His shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
His wings are clipped and his feet are tied
So he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with
A fearful trill of things unknown
But longed for still and his
Tune is heard on the distant hill
For the caged bird sings of freedom

Domestic workers are people who work as a servant within the employers' household. There are about 27million domestic workers who are having problems with their employers including many migrant workers from poor reign. Many were physically abused, not allowed to return to their country and  sexually harassed by their employers. If they tried to refuse, the employers will violate them and domestic workers had no freedom as they have no rights to get out from the job of domestic workers. Moreover, they were also treated inhumanly and the employers mostly discriminate domestic workers like no wages until the contract has been finished. 

The issue of the domestic workers not only impact their relatives and families and the domestic workers themselves but also to the people in the whole world. According to the various articles, few of the domestic workers victims died because of the abuse from the employers and even went missing. Their families and relatives might worry or even cry and even sorry for one of the family member who work for their poor families and relatives. I can really feel how painful it is for them to know that one of the family member died or went missing. I think this problem is really important to know for me and also the whole world because we might make a change to stop the slavery of the domestic workers. Even now, the governments and the police officers, are being apathetic of these serious problem about these victims and do not really investigate about domestic workers who are suffering in Malaysia. Moreover, if the whole world tries to take care of domestic workers and be upstanders instead of bystanders, the numbers of slavery who are domestic workers will start to decrease. 

While researching about domestic workers issue, it was quite shocking that the employers also sell domestic workers to other employers to perform the house work. However, there are many organizations like Tenaganita who provide domestic workers their shelters and tries their best to make them go back to their country. Other organization is 'Humans For Sale Awareness Program' and it indicates that many domestic workers were treated as if they are 'things' so the organization who tries to help domestic workers volunteered for helping them by making some products to sell things to people even at the shopping mall to make them care about this issue. If this continues, then in the future, the number of slavery will decrease and no more slavery will keep on go on in the worldwide as many people know about domestic workers from many different kind of websites. 

Learning about the issue of the domestic workers makes me feel that I want to volunteer on helping domestic workers in certain organization and it made me understand that there are still many people who are suffering because of their own job because I thought that nowadays, the technology and developed and most of the countries are living in a good condition. In addition, I feel really bad when domestic workers actually work as they are poor so that they could send them some money for their life. I personally just nagging to my mom even though I have done nothing for my family and even unsatisfied with my living. Moreover, I even thought that my life is really unlucky but actually I was really lucky of not doing anything  but to be educated not like domestic workers. I wish that there could be many people who realized after learning about domestic workers in Malaysia and try to help them.