Agency vs Direct Hiring What’s Best for Your Home?

Agency vs Direct Hiring What’s Best for Your Home?

At first glance, direct hiring a helper on your own may seem like a very cost-saving option. However, you bear the risks of misfit skillset, Helper feeling home sick upon arrival, failed on-arrival medical examination, gets off-loaded at source country’s airport,...
Hiring a Helper to look after newborn

Hiring a Helper to look after newborn

In a perfect world, daddies and mommies would stay at home all year round looking after their newborns, create memories and experiences with their little ones as they grow up. But in reality, in the hustle and bustle of Singapore, this would be just a fantasy. It is...
Loan Sharks & Money Traps: How to Protect Your MDW?

Loan Sharks & Money Traps: How to Protect Your MDW?

Discovering that your Migrant Domestic Worker (MDW) has borrowed money from loan sharks can be alarming. However, it’s crucial to remain calm and take the right steps to protect both yourself and your helper. If you found out your MDW is involved in loan sharks...
My spoon will not dirty your spoon, Mr & Mrs Employer

My spoon will not dirty your spoon, Mr & Mrs Employer

Many years ago, we came across a post from A Maid’s Eye View of Singapore Employers – a now inactive Facebook group (last post was in August 2014) created by a group of MDWs to speak their stories in Singapore. We realised that even right up till this day,...
What should you do if your Helper ran away?

What should you do if your Helper ran away?

You came home and noticed your door and gate are left opened and your Helper is nowhere to be found. Her belongings are gone too. What should you do? If your Foreign Domestic Worker (FDW) is missing, don’t panic! Contact your agent immediately. Chances are your...