Supermaids
August 3rd, 2006 at 7:23 am (General)
On the news tonight, Arroyo was boasting that the OFWs from Lebanon are going to be trained by TESDA to be “Supermaids,” and that they will be sent to work as such in Saudia Arabia. She said we’re no longer sending our OFWs to the more dangerous countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon. But yes, we’ll still send them abroad to the less “dangerous places.”
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Karl Garcia said,
August 3, 2006 at 3:49 pm
Supermaids??!!
The initial batches of our diaspora after the construction workers and engineers were no longer in demand, were teachers turned domestic helpers bound for Hong Kong.
What supermaids are they talking about.
I find validity in these ONLY because not all domestics sent have even finished high school.
But,still the training programs available are for them to upgrade themselves and go again abroad.
But they say they have programs for those who wanted to stay..
They offer technopreneurship as if it is not a rat race here.
They offer microfinance to let them start a business.
Again, as if this is something new!
Tricia said,
August 5, 2006 at 5:01 am
Instead of training the females, why not train the males (so that the females can stay home)? As example, the Philippines can train more soldiers that can be volunteered out to the United Nations. We already have Philippine army or marines “guns-for-hire” in Aceh and Haiti and they are paid $1,000 per month. $1,000-per-male-doing-UN work versus $150 per super-Maid. And don’t even say UN-peacekeeper is dangerous… when things get dangerous, the UN stay inside their base. How many Filipino peacekeepers in Aceh/Haiti have died? How many OFW’s have died?
mong said,
August 6, 2006 at 6:58 pm
from strong republic naging super nation na ata tayo. so talagang integrated na rin sa educ system ang labor export policy ng govt….
junR said,
August 6, 2006 at 10:21 pm
supermaids !!! nakakaawa na talaga tayo, ang hirap maging OFW, alipin sa ibang bansa ngayon gagawa pa ng supermaids !!!
kung pwede lang sanang magnegosyo ng walang corruption mula mayors permit hanggang BIR ng munisipyo, sana may mga trabaho na 6k to 10k pesos ang kita, hindi na kailangang paalipin sa ibang bansa ang ating mga kababayan …
sayang, nag aalisan ang mga negosyo in the end, forced tayo to find somewhere to survive, at ang sagot ng gobyerno … supermaids ! ! !
!@##@!#!
rogue said,
August 10, 2006 at 10:53 pm
It really depends on how you see it.
People will go abroad anyway, because there simply aren’t enough job opportunities here. If the government can at least help facilitate their migration, why not?
It doesn’t mean that the government can’t also promote investments to create more jobs in the country.
JDEspaldon said,
August 11, 2006 at 1:21 am
The highest salary of domestic helpers in Lebanon is US$200.00 or in peso P10,200.00, give or take few pesos depending on the peso-dollar exchange rate. The minimum wage rate in National Capital Region is P350.00 per day for a regular 8-hour work for non-agricultural workers or P9,100.00 every month for a 26-day work. That amount is before tax and deductions. The take home pay would be much less than P9,100.00. The difference between the two wages is only P1,100.00. Can you imagine the sacrifices that our fellow Filipinos have to go through just only to earn that extra P1,100.00? But the OFWs do not go abroad just to earn an extra P1,100.00. They go abroad because the government fails to give them jobs that would pay at least the minimum wage of P350.00 per day.
Hindi naman gusto ng ating mga kababayan na maging “supermaids” at mangibang bayan. Kahit sino ang ating tanungin na OFW kung gusto nilang mawalay sa kanilang pamilya, sinisiguro ko sa inyo na walang sasagot ng Oo. Gusto lang nila na magkaroon ng desenteng trabaho na may tamang suweldo sa ating bayan. Ang problema wala ngang trabaho kahit sa mga nakatapos ng kolehiyo. Ano pa kaya sa mga hindi man lang nakapag-aral.
kofigurl said,
August 12, 2006 at 9:09 pm
This is starting to sound like an excuse for Gloria’s inability to provide jobs for people in our country. Mind you, we’re not talking about call center/outsourcing yet.
Although, in another spectrum, this move is a good thing for a lot of OFWs. We can’t stop our OFWs from leaving the country for so-called greener pastures. It’s not really a matter of underscoring the lack of job opportunities here, but it has now become a matter of protecting those granted such opportunities, especially outside where they are more susceptible to abuse.