Supermaids .....?? Options

[Mr. Slowjamz]

This is a job for Supermaids!
Philippine president wants maids to get safety training

Thursday, August 3, 2006; Posted: 9:27 a.m. EDT (13:27 GMT)


MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Looking for a maid who can not only cook and clean but save your kid from a fire? Try a supermaid.

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo wants to create the "supermaid" using a new training program for Filipino domestic helpers.

"We will be sending `supermaids,"' Arroyo said during a round-table discussion on efforts to evacuate 30,000 Filipinos in Lebanon, most of them maids, and help them find new jobs.

Augusto Syjuco, head of the government's Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, said the "supermaids" program includes training in first aid, evacuations from high-rises in case of a fire and other skills to help maids get higher pay.

"They are not just maids. They are really very well-trained now," he said. "If there is someone injured among the family they work for ... how to get out of a fire in a high-rise building, all these are part of our upgrading program."

About 10 percent of 86 million Filipinos work abroad, sending home at least $10 billion each year.

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comments about this ? ......i guess this is an efficient and effective way too give the filipino and lebanese citizens some of work ,...but this gives a bad rep ...for most high classed -societies ... harder for me when i work ??? ...maybe. .