Early in the morning on a street in Hong Kong’s Central district, workers rushing to offices, hands occupied with briefcases and Starbucks, pay little attention to a woman in dark colors holding a package.
“I am waiting for my friend from the Philippines to give her something to carry to the Philippines to give my son, ‘’ said the woman, who identified herself only as Angela. The 47-year-old Filipina has worked in the city for 12 years for different employers – none, she says, as bad as her current one.
The woman of the house, she says, is pregnant and does nothing. Angela awakens at 6 am to clean the toilets, the floors and the windows. At 8 am she readies the son for his third year of school. A whole load of cooking, cleaning and caring for the son are on Angela’s shoulders. Her workday ends at 1 am after having given the housewife a to-do list for the following day’s tasks. She does these services on a half-empty stomach.
“She has six CCTV cameras in the house, in the kitchen, in the corridor, in my room. I am not comfortable with it. For example, when you eat in the kitchen because you are hungry they come and say ‘Why, why you are eating this meal?’ That bread is for me not for her. They do not give me enough food.” Full story...
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“I am waiting for my friend from the Philippines to give her something to carry to the Philippines to give my son, ‘’ said the woman, who identified herself only as Angela. The 47-year-old Filipina has worked in the city for 12 years for different employers – none, she says, as bad as her current one.
The woman of the house, she says, is pregnant and does nothing. Angela awakens at 6 am to clean the toilets, the floors and the windows. At 8 am she readies the son for his third year of school. A whole load of cooking, cleaning and caring for the son are on Angela’s shoulders. Her workday ends at 1 am after having given the housewife a to-do list for the following day’s tasks. She does these services on a half-empty stomach.
“She has six CCTV cameras in the house, in the kitchen, in the corridor, in my room. I am not comfortable with it. For example, when you eat in the kitchen because you are hungry they come and say ‘Why, why you are eating this meal?’ That bread is for me not for her. They do not give me enough food.” Full story...
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