Filipino Domestic Worker in Hong Kong Watches Daughter's Beauty Pageant Online

LAGUNA – Ms Lia Quirante, 45, smiled as she saw the face of her daughter, Jehm, pop up on the laptop screen.

“I have worked here for six years now, but it never gets any easier,” Ms Quirante told The Straits Times through Zoom, as she fought back tears. “You gave me more than 31 million votes… In exchange, I promise to work on giving you jobs and improving the Philippines,” Mr Marcos told Filipino workers in a gathering at the National University of Singapore in September 2022.Filipino migrant workers sometimes gather around Orchard MRT station on their days off on Sundays. ST PHOTO: AZMI ATHNI

In October 2023, Mr Marcos locked in millions of dollars worth of investments from Saudi Arabian firms that could generate some 15,000 construction jobs for Filipinos back home. Remittances by OFWs have risen steadily over the years, ballooning to 235.9 billion pesos in 2018, the Philippine Statistics Authority reported.

The labour export policy began as a stop-gap measure to prop up the ailing economy in the 1970s, during the dictatorship of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Sr, who died in exile in 1989. Mr Jayson Gaela helping daughter Jehm to get ready for school. Her mother Lia Quirante is unable to help take care of her in the Philippines as she is in Hong Kong working as a domestic worker. PHOTO: ANGIE DE SILVA

Nearly 70 per cent of female Filipino migrant workers work in elementary occupations, which include domestic help.Other roles include factory workers, service and sales employees, technicians, professionals and clerical staff. Ms Quirante was once a teacher at a school in her town, drawing a monthly salary of just 15,000 pesos. She earned another 10,000 pesos by tutoring children in the neighbourhood. At the time, it was enough to meet the family’s needs.

Ms Lia Quirante , pictured here with Jehm and her employers in Hong Kong, says she was happy when her daughter was able to visit her. PHOTO: COURTESY OF LIA QUIRANTE It also made it easier for the Marcos government to repatriate hundreds of Filipinos who were trapped when wars broke out in Sudan and in the Gaza Strip in 2023, DMW officer-in-charge Hans Leo Cacdac told The Straits Times.

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