nanny/maid not treated right

[nannyuk]

Hi i am not really sure what i am after by posting here but i think i just need to vent. i work as a holiday nanny so i either go on holiday with a family to look after the children or i look after children that come on holiday to london.

The family that i have just started working for also have a maid/ nanny.
The maid has 5 child back in her home country and she was purchased by the family so she is not employed. She told me she is not paid at all and is on call 24/7 even has the youngest children sleep in her bed plus she has to keep the house tidy. I feel really bad for her :/ I have been working with her for a little while and she gets really happy if i do small things such as buy her a drink/ some lunch. She says that i am the kindest person she has ever met. Even the children treat her like dirt. (i am trying to fix that while i am with them) I really don't know what to do or even if there is anything i can do. just wanted to let it out and see if anyone had any ideas

Purchased?? From whom?

Who sold her?

If this is true then how awful

Am very shocked that the police did nothing

Slavery is still quite common in KSA Blondes - there was a news story earlier in the year about a Saudi diplomat here in the UK keeping 2 Phillipina women in slave-like conditions but no action was taken against him due to diplomatic immunity . The women were freed though.
I'm also shocked and saddened that the police weren't interested.

POLICE

Blondes, I saw a number of Filipina maids in Hong Kong in very similar positions. It is quite common in the Philippines for a mother to leave the country and work as as 24/7 domestic in return for what was maybe US$100 a month at the time I encountered it (15 years ago). A lovely maid that i got to know confirmed that they were often treated like absolute dirt and sometimes had money withheld completely for spurious reasons, but that $25 a week was enough to feed and educate the kids back home, so they did it very willingly. Wouldn't surprise me at all to find some families pretending they were paying direct to the Philippines, or insisting the first 5 years were unpaid because of an upfront payment at the start.

There's an org in London called kalayaan that was set up specifically to rescue such women when they are on UK soil -someone mentioned it up thread - which rescues such women all the time.

Sorry, just realised this was a dead thread - didn't mean to resurrect.

You gave a stranger £4,000?

Really?

Know it happens. Just seems so sad that a mum has to leave her child and come and work and be treated like shit :(

Where are the dads?

Would you not if you thought you could save somebody's life?