How well is your ‘kasambahay’?
Our yaya was supposed to have gone back to Zamboanga for vacation when the lockdown hit. She and many stay-in helpers were inadvertently stuck in their employers’ homes for an
Our yaya was supposed to have gone back to Zamboanga for vacation when the lockdown hit. She and many stay-in helpers were inadvertently stuck in their employers’ homes for an
“Jarel, will you forever be a helper? Will it be like this forever?” These were the questions he found himself asking, and led him to action.
RED Apron Cooking Academy offers “Kitchen and Cooking Basics”—a three-day Household Help 101 Class tailor-made for the kasambahay.
WHILE election season in the middle- and lower-class communities are louder and rowdier, the enclaves in Makati and Ayala Alabang are relatively quiet.
Parents getting text messages from their “children” who ask for “load” from borrowed mobile phones after an “accident” wonder how strangers know who to contact.
“Hard to get good help these days,” I remember Lola Enchay complaining, and Mom and aunts, too, later in their time. Now, in the autumn of my years, I’m hearing
Lately I find myself relying more and more on Lani’s memory than my own. Lani has been our lone kasambahay for nearly a decade now. If I depended on her before owing merely to laziness, I’m a long way from that now. It all beganquite innocently—but of course.
Our household has one story from a devastated DaanBantayan in northern Cebu, the hometown of our kasambahay. Last month, she went home there to be with her five-year-old son and elderly mother.
(Last of two parts) EXTRAS LIKE gifts, 13th month pay, paid leaves or travel fare are usually hinged on a yaya’s tenure, performance, and character. “If and when there is
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