00:03Yes, we are very scared. We have lots of messages and alarms in night or morning every time.
00:10That's why we are very scared of rockets and everything.
00:12If a rocket hit me, this rocket hit me. What to do with my family?
00:17Millions of blue-collar workers from Asia and Africa live in the United Arab Emirates.
00:22But speaking to them about the current situation is difficult.
00:25Many are afraid of getting in trouble with the authorities here.
00:28So we only recorded their voices to protect their identity.
00:32The situation now is not good because of these rockets, as you know.
00:37And we are supposed to stay indoors.
00:40So staying indoors also is a bit difficult because we cannot stay inside.
00:45We have to work so that we can get something to eat, something to pay rent.
00:49So it's not good. Yeah, we are passing through a lot.
00:52Permittances from the UAE are an important source of income for the workers' families back home.
00:57And in some cases, the war has already started to impact businesses.
01:02But now is the war start, so my work is too much done.
01:06For this case, not coming the shipping, the deliveries.
01:10And also, every day is coming, deliveries 10,000, 11,000.
01:14And now is the 1,000, 2,000.
01:16Many workers spent their only day off resting on the roadside, exhausted.
01:21More often than not, this is their only day off.
01:25Inside their shared rooms, several men cook and sleep in the smallest of spaces.
01:30All to send money back home.
01:32We knocked on the doors of where they live.
01:35We're not going to be able to go to the water.
01:38We're going to be able to repair it.
01:41We're going to be able to repair it.
01:41We're going to be able to sell it.
01:42We're going to be able to sell it in India.
01:45Far from home, under pressure and fear, they keep going.
01:50Because for millions of families, the money sent from here is the difference between getting by and going under.
02:07You're just letting them know.
02:07We're going to be able to get back home.
02:07The money, earning it more as a non spectrum evidently.
02:07Seriously, there's nothing.
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