When Miss Bel mentioned that we would be watching this movie months ago, I have been looking forward to it ever since. I have heard of this movie before, I saw it being advertised on TV two years ago if i am not mistaken. Since I am someone who loves watching documentary movies I really intended to watch this one, but due to some unforeseen events in my life I wasn’t able to. Fast forward to 2019, two years later I finally got to watch the movie. Things do happen for a reason, I didn’t get to watch it before on my own but I got to watch it this week with intelligent, amazing people I have only known for months. I can thus say that it was the perfect time to watch the movie.

I can never relate to the sadness some of my classmates who has OFW parents have. My father may be working in a different city but at least I get to see him every two months and during important holidays like Christmases and New Years. Having watched the movie it made me feel sad that some of my fellow Filipina gets treated badly abroad to the point that they sleep and eat like a dog while working like a machine. It made me mad that some foreigners thinks so highly of themselves to the point that they treat people who works for them and are of a different race than them as slaves. It also saddened me that most of those domestic helpers abroad have a degree in college. They studied thinking that in the future they’re gonna land into a good job with a good pay and benefits, but due to the extreme poverty here in our country and lack of job opportunities they have to swallow their pride, forget about whatever it is that they have learned in college for years and work for other people doing their laundry, dishes and take care of children that aren’t theirs. Amidst all that it still made me glad, it touched me to find out that there are still good people out there who knows how to value a human being. Seeing the kindhearted employers of some of the domestic helpers and how they said they are truly grateful to have them around made me shed a tear.

They said being a domestic helper abroad is always a “paswertihan”, you are lucky if you have a good employer, you are lucky if you have a good pay, but I say it is the foreign employers who are lucky to have Filipina domestic helpers in their households, they are lucky to have hardworking, loving Filipinas to help them in their daily lives.