review on filipino maids

If you find that poverty mentality keeps you from achieving the success you deserve, the reason may be in your own past. Having the frame of mind that sees you with far less than you are capable of attaining can come from being raised in poverty. The deep belief that you cannot achieve more, or don't deserve to is the ingredient that makes a reality of this mindset. -- anon.

Nung unang panahon... early 19th century.. may naging komento si Jean Mallat na nasulat ni Ambeth Ocampo sa inquirer tungkol sa mga chinese foreign workers (http://www.inq7.net/opi/2004/apr/16/text/opi_arocampo-1-p.htm) sa tin non. Noon daw, sila ang pumupunta sa bansa para magtrabaho at may ipadala sa pamilya nila back home.

Fast forward ngayon, nakakita ako ng article sa shanghai tungkol sa pagreview ng skills ng mga filipino maids.

Iba na talaga ang panahon ano. Ngayon tayo na ang may pangarap na bumalik ang panahon nung tulad ng kina Rizal.

Pangarap ko na dumating ang panahon na buhay pa ako at ndi na tayo nirereview sa pagiging maid. Sana magkaron ng kabuluhan ang pagsisikap ng bawat filipina maid sa ibang bansa.. na iangat ang pamilya nila, ndi
lang financially pero pati na rin sa lahat ng aspeto sa buhay. Sana bawat isa sa anak nila lumaking responsable at productive citizen ng bansa... ndi man makagraduate bilang doktor, engineer, nurse etc. maging isang
magaling na businessman na lang na magbibigay ng trabaho sa iba, o kaya maging isang simpleng guro na may pangarap itaas ang antas ng edukasyon.

Sana dumating ang panahon na nirereview naman ang skills ng karamihan sa tin bilang professional o kaya bilang economic assets of the country.

Ito na yung article.

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/05/17/278155/Filipino_maids__039__mixed_reviews.htm

Filipino maids' mixed reviews
2006-05-17
FILIPINO
housemaids have not been widely used by local Beijing families
since
agencies started marketing their services in March.
An estimated 1,000 to
2,000 Filipino maids work on the Chinese
mainland, with up to 300 in
Beijing, where four agencies offer their services.
Employers of Filipino
maids in Beijing, however, are mostly from Hong
Kong, Taiwan and overseas,
and include very few native families, local
media have reported.
Wealthy
white-collar professionals with strong English skills are the
main employers
of Filipino maids, said an agency manager quoted by the
Beijing-based Global
Times newspaper as saying.
"Beijing needs at least 200,000 home servants
every year, of whom three
to five percent must be skilled professionals, and
Filipino maids
probably account for one percent," he said.
The
relatively high cost is one reason why Beijingers stick with native
Chinese
maidservants.
Besides the US$350 to US$400 for the monthly salary, employers
must pay
about US$1,060 in fees for training, visas, employment permits,
physical examinations, insurance and annual flights for a Filipino maid.
The average monthly salary of Beijing residents, by contrast, was about
US$340 last year, according to the Beijing Statistical Bureau.
On
arrival, maids and their bosses face obstacles in communication,
lifestyle
and cuisine.
Mr Wu, a businessman from Singapore, fired his Filipino maid
because
she was incapable of cooking Chinese food properly and he worried
about
the influence of her Philippine accent on his children, Beijing Youth
Daily said.
Wu has since hired a Chinese servant for just over US$100 a
month.
Philippine servants, nevertheless, though, have an international
reputation for their high-quality service and cheerful temperaments.
Mr
Chen, who works for a foreign-funded company in Beijing, said his
breakfast
is ready and his home and car cleaned when he gets up every
day.
"She
likes to sing and sometimes dance while working, and that makes me
happy
too," he said.