Aida, the more vivacious and assertive of the two women, was 32 and had been in Lebanon for 12 years. She came on a contract but ran away after two years because she was being forced to work for three homes for US$100 per month. She met and later married Rahim, a Sudanese man who was working as a driver for the Embassy of Saudi Arabia. They lived together for several years, and Rahim started working as an unlicensed broker bringing women as domestic workers from Ethiopia via Sudan (since the Ethiopian Government’s ban on migration to Lebanon was in force at the time).