kung namatay po ang isang aupair may listahan po ba sa philippine embasy sa denmark na pwedeng malaman kung talagang patay na ang taong sinabing patay na kasi may friend po ako na namatay at inatake sa puso sa ole burr, kobenhavn denmark pano po ako makakasigurado na patay na ang taong ito baka po pwede nyo ako matulungan. tnx po.

If you can dig up real names and real people, both victims and perpetrators, we in our network is ready to tackle this blight in our Filipino community in Denmark. Imagine your own countrymen preying on our hapless Filipinas, what could be more low and rapacious.

If oyu want to help us, we are willing to work to cut out this piece of cancer in our community.

We are ready when you are ready. Do not be afraid, our methods are soft. We will start by counselling and talking to b oth au pairs and their abusers. We want to mend and construct but only if people are willing to learn from their experience. In the case of those preying male Filipinos, they have to be accountable to their fellow hu-(woe)man beings and last but not least to God!

Do not waste time.
I urge others who may be reading this exchange to also report on other abuses done to Filipinas, even if they be by their so-called “amos” actually supposed to be their host families some of hwom may treat them like domestics but without paying them the real rates! IN Italy, Filipino domestic workers are much in demand but @ 1000 euros a month.

I myself believe in dignity of labour and work must transpire with respect and fair renumeration.

Sorry for straying in the topic but the bottom line is respect for the Filipina, whether from their countrymen who have a tendency to be sexual abusers or from some of the Danish fmailies who have a tendency to exploit the ever smiling au pairs.

I recommend two articles for you:

1)All not fair for aupairs in DK,
ABAKADASummer issue 2007; can be read or downloaded from http://www.babaylan.dk

2)For godt til at være sandt og Slaveriet er afskaffet, both in Fag og Arbejdet, trademagazine for the labour union FOA who formed an Au Pair network on the invitation of Babaylan Denmark in Spring 2007.

Sorry for the long wait -that is if nag-antay ka? This issue needs a bit of exposure…

This case that you refer to I have not heard about in the public debate in Denmark but posibleng nangyayari ito… pero ang mga au pairs have the right to leave their employ, Pinoy man or hindi but I imagine kung Pinoy, mas nakakainfluence sa thinking seguro dahil magkaparehong kultura. In other words, there is great potential for manipulation and exploitation by kapwa Pinoys of each other.

One can ask, anong ginagawa ng mga pare, madre at pastor/pastora na sa ngayon ay dumadami dito sa labas ng Pilipinas? Sometimes, they actually hinder the integration of Filipinos dahil puro simba, hindi naman bumbuti ang pagkatao. They sin, they confess and when Monday comes along, balik sa pagiging masama sa kapwa Pinoy….

Dito sa Copenhagen, ang mga kilos ng mga kapwa kong Pilipino/na ay to put it mildly: embarrasing. Wala na ngang profile at all, whether politically, socially, economically or culturally active. At kung ang organisasyon mo, medyo tumutulong sa kapwa, babarahin ka ng iba sa simpleng rason na ikaw ang kumilos at na conscienticised, hindi sila. Paano naman, hindi nila kayang maki-network maske Denmark lang and certainly not Europewide nor further away like internationally!

Kung ikaw Pinoy at may ambisyon ka magimbita ng cultural group from your Lupang Hinirang, halimbawa world class choirs from UP?? Ihanda mo ang sarili mo dahil hindi ka pa natapos mag-arrange ng kanilan itinerary, itsismis ka na kung magkano ang nakurakot mo! from I don’t know where?? since your biggest problem is how to finance their stay without money from the Phil. govt. You have to make magic or abuse your friends for their hospitality so makakain lang ang mga pobreng singers at choirs. Malakas ang imagination ng Pinoys sa CPH as to these things. Pero yong mga kumikita ng sakosakong pera dahil nagdala ng vacuous pop groups and/or leftist artists kuno, suportado ng madla. Ganon ka badoy dito!!!

I would like to look at the educational qualifications of FIlipinos here so I can find the explanation to their strange behaviour…they certainly agitate on the Envy Philosophy, also known as Crustacean Mentality. These types are more destructive than the occasional sexual pervert who get their due when reported to the authorities…

Perhaps it is just typical Filipino behaviour eveyrwhere. What is your reading where you are at? Can you share your experiences? Do you have au pairs where you are?

I am sure the phenomenon of being “abused” esp. when it comes to being asked to do more housework and babysitting was also felt in those days when Europeans lived as au pairs in each other’s country, that is across Europe, primarily to learn another language and to experience a different culture.. Today, university students have it almost as a written right that they spend a semester abroad in the course of their bachelor and esp. their masters program so they do not have to be au pairs anymore…the educ.system provides them the opportunity!

About us Filipinos in Europe, we have this network for empowerment of Pinays called Babaylan Europe and we certainly use some energies in helping au pairs in Europe with questions of legal rights,coping socially, making use of educational and cultural opportunities in short empowering the au pairs, who as few Filipinos might know, are banned form leaving the country by the Phil. government. As such, they are preyed upon by rapacious airport and immigration officials on departure.They get delayed if they cannot pay the so called “escort fee” of at least 20 000 Php. at predeparture. This is on top of the recruitment fee they might have also paid before they found their host family, maybe leading them to debts that have to be paid monthly from wherever they are in Europe. Yessir, the exploitation of Filipinos by Filipinos has been an eye opener for this writer. We are worst to our Kapwa Pinoys Im afraid even as many of us put ourselves out to help our countrymen esp. when we find ourselves abroad.

But there are also some of our ilk who prey on their kapwa kababaehan, yes right here in Copenhagen, tumutulong daw with an agency pero pag hindi mo sinusunod ang kanyang mga order, lagot ka. Lagot kang au pair ka, sisira-an ka nya doon sa host family mo para mafire ka or at least matakot. Kumukuha sya ng au pairs sa ibang lugar sa Asia para maiwasan ang govt. ban pero nangyayari tuloy na hindi au pair ang dating ng mga girls, domestics, which means tuhog sa ilong. Walang alam sa kanilang mga karapatan.

It is truly tragic na tayo mismong mga Pinoy uma-api sa kapwa. Right here in the capital of democratic Denmark…