Kirimi  has been organising informal sessions with migrant workers to raise awareness on mental health, using art and painting as coping mechanisms.

Eric Kirimi was 23 years old when he first made a deliberate attempt to end his life. At the time, he was working in the Kenyan National Service – the military – and had been battling passive suicidal thoughts for years.

“I was angry. I had nobody in my life. I was in a place where I didnt know who I was. I wanted the pain to end. But something un...

Kate*, originally from Kenya, moved to Qatar from Saudi Arabia in 2021 to work as a cleaner. She used all her savings from her previous job as a caregiver to pay a recruitment agency that promised her working conditions in Qatar would be better than what she faced in the neighbouring kingdom.

“I had experienced a lot of abuse in my previous job in Saudi, and I hoped conditions for domestic workers in Qatar would be better since I heard that Kafala had been removed,” Kate recalls, reminiscing Doha’s historic 2020 labour reforms, which made Qatar the first country in the Arab Gulf region to terminate the exploitative Kafala system.

As the FIFA World Cup 2022 draws closer in Qatar, local residents speak to Doha News about the impact of escalating rent prices on their lives.

Qatar resident Haniya has moved houses nearly three times over the past 8 months already, compromising her safety by living with strangers in order to afford Doha’s increasing rent prices.

The high-achieving international student graduated from Georgetown University in Qatar in 2020, and was excited to move back to Doha after landing a job in December