Mimi Hussein, 26, a domestic worker from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, stands in the kitchen of a fellow domestic worker's workplace. Hussein has been in Lebanon for nearly a decade and works with a family she feels like a part of. While in the country, she has also been able to participate in a weekly English class, organized by the non-government organization, Migrant Task Force, in Lebanon. She is a teacher, and has been for a few months, ever since she finished the highest level of English that the organization offers. When Hussein walked through into the class two years ago, she could hardly say hello.

Masaret, 28, sits in the room provided for her by the old couple she works with. Though she desperately misses her family, she has grown to love the couple she has lived with for more than seven years, and is grateful to have the opportunity to put her late sister's two children through school, and be able provide them housing and clothes. She sends nearly all of her money home to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, every month.

Jessy, 49, is from Cebu, Philippines, but feels that Lebanon is her homeland. Today she is a proud salon owner in Hamra, Beirut. She was first a migrant worker in Kuwait in 1999, where she worked as a clerical typist. She came to Lebanon after nine years with her Lebanese husband whom she met there, and the first of her two children. After working in various salons for 5-6 years in Lebanon, she was able to fulfill her dream of opening up her own place. "I kept saving. Once I learned enough, I felt strong enough to open a salon on my own. It was time. It's very small, but there is work," she said happily.

Jessy has been able to build a loyal clientele who come from outside Hamra to visit her salon. One only has to spend a few minutes in the small salon to pick up on the family-feel of the establishment. Since she left Cebu in 1999, she has dreamed of opening up her own salon. Beirut, Lebanon.

Uniforms for domestic workers can be found everywhere throughout Beirut, from formal shops like this one to stalls on the street. There are nearly 200,000 migrant workers in Lebanon.

Masaret shows a wallet size photo of her family that she supports financially, but never sees. In the decade she has been in Lebanon, she has only returned to Ethiopia on three occasions.

Masaret sits in her room, which is decorated with mementos from home. Though some days she gets very sad about the difficulties for migrant workers in Lebanon, she is grateful to have the opportunity to provide for her family at home, while living with an old couple that she has grown to care about deeply.

Jessy stands outside of her shop, "Jessy Nails," with her daughter, Nour. Though sometimes her children are teased for being half-Filipino and half-Lebanese, they still feel like normal Lebanese kids.

Rahel Zegeye, 34, is an Ethiopian domestic worker from Faransy by day, and a documentary filmmaker and artist by night. Her first feature film, "Beirut," focused on the plight of domestic workers in Lebanon and took her two years to film in the country. She has recently received funding for a second film, which will also focus on domestic workers. Rahel has been in Lebanon for 13 years, and in that time has become a local leader in the fight for migrant workers' rights.

Rahel Zegeye has overcome many challenges in Lebanon in order to be where she is at today: a documentary filmmaker, a leading activist, a playwright and a source of help for her fellow migrant workers who have been mistreated. She is at work on her second film, which she has recently received funding for.

Mimi Hussein was once a student at the Migrant Task Force's weekly English classes. Mimi now returns every Sunday as a teacher for other migrants to teach English and help them study before their tests.

Though Mimi is grateful for her good situation in Lebanon, and all that she has learned, she will be leaving soon in order to go home and start a family. She and Masaret are friends, and both of them work together to help fellow workers who have been mistreated or are in a bad situation.

This sign at St. George's Yacht Club and Marina, used to only say, "STOP SOLIDERE." But after Rahel Abebe, a migrant worker from Ethiopia, was discriminatorily denied entry to the St. George Yacht Club & Marina, the Anti-Racism filed lawsuit on her behalf. The result, most importantly to her, the sign now reads underneath the large writing, "STOP DISCRIMINATION." She has been in Beirut for nearly 14 years and also has a catering service, on the side of her work in a cafe, cooking Ethiopian food.

Rahel is determined to keep fighting for migrant worker rights while in the country. "We want freelance papers, to change the sponsorship system. Still no one is listening. I cannot see migrant workers every week kill themselves, stuck at the house, they're locked with no food, how can I be happy? When those people get free, it will make me very happy. When we make the change, I will go home," she says.

Rahel wearing traditional Ethiopian dress. While in the country, she has a dream to open an Ethiopian restaurant in Beirut. "It was an idea first and now I'm catering. I give the catering service when people feel like Ethiopian food. Since there is no Ethiopian restaurant in Lebanon, I'm thinking of opening a restaurant with real culture and spice and non-spicy food, and Ethiopian coffee. I don't know how much I need to go, I'm just thinking to have this idea," Rahel says.

Rahel Abebe, 29, from Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia, stands in the kitchen of the Migrant Community Center in Beirut, where she spends a lot of her time when she is not working at Nasawiya, a cafe in Beirut. When Rahel was discriminatorily denied entry to the Saint George's Yacht Club and Marina in Beirut in the summer of 2012, the Anti-Racism Movement filed a lawsuit on her behalf. The matter was settled out of court, but more importantly to her, the sign now reads underneath the large writing, "STOP DISCRIMINATION." It was put there by the club owner Fadi Khoury. She has been in Beirut for nearly 14 years and also has a catering service, on the side of her work in a cafe, cooking Ethiopian food, called "Rahel Catering in Beirut."