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Pinay maids featured in Dubai photo exhibit

The artworks of three Filipina maids in Dubai were recently featured in a Gulf Photo Plus exhibit that tells their inspiring stories as migrants.

Evelyn, Rose, and Maya along with Kenyan and Sri Lankan women were given shoes where they painted their experiences. The shoes were displayed alongside their photos taken by acclaimed Emirati photographer Amani Shali at the exhibit in Alserkal Avenue at Al Quoz.

The show called Soles and Stories was organized to mark communication firm FleishmanHillard’s 70th anniversary.

“The seven domestic workers from the Philippines, Kenya and Sri Lanka were provided a pair of shoes to design as a creative outlet for their self-expression, to tell their hopes, dreams, joys and pains,” Gulf News quoted Camellia Bojtor of FleishmanHillard as saying.

The proceeds from the exhibit will go to the maids, who promised to donate portions of it to the Dubai Women and Children’s Foundation.

“I painted a part of a girl’s face and a butterfly on one shoe as I found my true colors like a butterfly. I also portrayed the family with whom I am working now as they mean a lot to me. On the other shoe, I showed a girl’s hands holding a broken heart, which reflected the pain of my past,” said Evelyn, who was forced to go to Dubai to work for her kids.

Rose, who experienced poverty after losing her father at the young age of four, and Maya, who is providing for her family in the Philippines, also visualized their lives in the shoe paintings.

Photo credit: Supplied photo

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