'Supermaid'
Posted on August 5, 2006 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
Eduardo Pontaoe
5 August 2006Here’s one for you, Edener.
Dateline: Chicago Sun Times..Friday..8-04-2006
Looking for a maid who cannot only cook and clean but save your kid from a fire? Try a supermaid.
Philippine President Arroyo wants to create a “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, evacuation from high rises in case of a fire and other skills to 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 upgrading the program.”
I may add, eventually Arroyo could produce a clone of Superwoman who can dodge and stop bullets, stop an speeding train, clean the Philippines of debilitating corruption or makes ballots disappear?
Who needs Garcillano?
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