Filipino migrant workers stranded in Saudi Arabia after their jobs ended because of the coronavirus pandemic appealed for help this week.<br /><br />Footage shows the ailing workers in masks holding placards that bear the name of their recruitment agencies.<br /><br />The private agencies allegedly failed to provide assistance in bringing them home to the Philippines after they were laid off on March 31.<br /><br />Grey Virgo Guevarra recorded the video of his fellow workers in a migrant shelter in King Salman Road, Riyadh.<br /><br />She said: "We want to return to our country safely and get our unpaid salary for three months. We are hoping that the government will help us."<br /><br />The government has earlier established a sub-task unit to help repatriate the affected Filipino workers stuck abroad during the Covid-19 crisis.
