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                     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,
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