Thirty-year-old Nigerian Schron Osula will no longer have to sleep rough as she is going home. “I am just delighted and very happy,” she told Gulf Newspaper over telephone. She was on her way to Abu Dhabi
airport. “I can’t believe it. A good Samaritan came to my rescue,” said Osula who even managed to get her passport from the Muraqqabat police station in Deira. Help for Osula poured in after her story was published in the newspaper on January 22. Osula came to the UAE a year ago on a tourist visa in search of employment. She rented bed space for Dh200 a month in Deira’s Naif area. When she and her friends
failed to secure jobs, her friends flew back to Nigeria, but Osula was left behind. She has lost her travel
documents. She is six months pregnant, slept rough and used to beg for a living.
An Indian businessman who did not want to be named used his resources to track down Osula and help her get her travel papers sorted out. “She also got her passport back and her fines were waived partially. I just want to let you know that she is going home,” he said.
Other readers have also been keeping track of her welfare over telephone with the newspaper. Some of them even took time out from their busy schedule to meet her personally and help her in cash and kind. “Some people gave me money. I even got my passport back. I went to the police station in Muraqqabat in Deira. They found my passport for me. I was so scared, but they were really kind and helpful. I telephoned my sister with whom I lived before coming to the UAE. She lives in Edo State. I telephoned her to tell her that I will be back home. She too was delighted. She was like, ‘Schron come back home soon’. My parents died when I was a kid,” said Osula. Once back home she plans to start afresh and never ever be in the situation that she got into while in the UAE. “It’s unfortunate that I ended up the way I
did over here. But many of my friends from my home town, who came here to make a living, have done well
for themselves. The people over here are really helpful. Look at me, a few weeks back, I was depressed,
penniless and sleeping in parks but today I am going home with a little cash in hand. I want to thank every
single person who helped me,” said Osula who plans to look for a job in her home town to support her
baby.
“The baby is all mine. I don’t know the whereabouts of the father. He left us and so I don’t care,” she said.
Thirty-year-old Nigerian Schron Osula will no longer have to sleep rough as she is going home. “I am just delighted and very happy,” she told Gulf Newspaper over telephone. She was on her way to Abu Dhabi
airport. “I can’t believe it. A good Samaritan came to my rescue,” said Osula who even managed to get her passport from the Muraqqabat police station in Deira. Help for Osula poured in after her story was published in the newspaper on January 22. Osula came to the UAE a year ago on a tourist visa in search of employment. She rented bed space for Dh200 a month in Deira’s Naif area. When she and her friends
failed to secure jobs, her friends flew back to Nigeria, but Osula was left behind. She has lost her travel
documents. She is six months pregnant, slept rough and used to beg for a living.
An Indian businessman who did not want to be named used his resources to track down Osula and help her get her travel papers sorted out. “She also got her passport back and her fines were waived partially. I just want to let you know that she is going home,” he said.
Other readers have also been keeping track of her welfare over telephone with the newspaper. Some of them even took time out from their busy schedule to meet her personally and help her in cash and kind. “Some people gave me money. I even got my passport back. I went to the police station in Muraqqabat in Deira. They found my passport for me. I was so scared, but they were really kind and helpful. I telephoned my sister with whom I lived before coming to the UAE. She lives in Edo State. I telephoned her to tell her that I will be back home. She too was delighted. She was like, ‘Schron come back home soon’. My parents died when I was a kid,” said Osula. Once back home she plans to start afresh and never ever be in the situation that she got into while in the UAE. “It’s unfortunate that I ended up the way I
did over here. But many of my friends from my home town, who came here to make a living, have done well
for themselves. The people over here are really helpful. Look at me, a few weeks back, I was depressed,
penniless and sleeping in parks but today I am going home with a little cash in hand. I want to thank every
single person who helped me,” said Osula who plans to look for a job in her home town to support her
baby.
“The baby is all mine. I don’t know the whereabouts of the father. He left us and so I don’t care,” she said.
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