She asked permission from Myrene Salvador Abuan to go to the prayer meeting of fellow Filipinos at an apartment at the ground floor.

With the help of friends, she was slipped out of the building and brought to a coffee shop where she was fetched by a relative and brought to the Philippine Embassy.

According to Tubadan, embassy officials demanded SREIH Services to return her travel documents and give her plane ticket back home or they would bring her case to the Lebanese government.

The owners of SREIGH Services agreed, but also had Tubadan sign a document stating that she would not file a case against the agency.

On September 13, Tubadan was able to fly back to Manila.

Upon arriving in Dipolog, she immediately went to thank Jalosjos, and to ask the lawmaker to help three other distressed Filipinas at the apartment of Hashim Ali.

"There are a lot of Filipinas who need help," she said, "there were about a hundred at the embassy. They could not come home because they still have legal cases or they have no money."

In most cases, Tubadan said that victims of illegal recruitment and human trafficking in Lebanon were recruited by either friends or  relatives. 

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