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The best assistant
Today
There are many maids from Southeast Asia outside the
kindergartens and primary schools, they carry schoolbags,
violins, snacks for their little masters who travel between
056 tutorial schools and interest classes. At home, they take 057
care of the daily chores of washing, ironing, cooking, and
cleaning, etc.
The Hong Kong Government began allowing foreign
domestic helpers into Hong Kong from 1973. In 1975,
there were only 1,350 foreign domestic workers in Hong
Kong, while in 1982, there were 20,000. However, with
the rapid increase of middle-class families, as well as rapid
economic growth, the number of foreign domestic helpers
continued to rise, from 260,000 in 2009 to over 386,000 in
2018. Of these more than half came from the Philippines,