Around 3,000 Indonesian domestic workers, trained to provide home nursing care for the elderly, are expected to come to Hong Kong over the next year to alleviate the shortage of carers trained to look after the city’s older citizens.
Leung Hing-ki, chairman of Hong Kong TKI Association, said his employment agency had lined up several training centers in Indonesia to provide tailor-made training on home-based elderly care, Sing Tao Daily reported.
The three-month training includes how to use wheelchairs, how to help old people get out of bed, bathing and providing assistance when they go to the washroom. Trainees would have to go to an elderly center to understand more about elderly citizens before coming to Hong Kong.
Leung expected 2,000 to 3,000 trained Indonesian workers could arrive in Hong Kong in a year’s time, and said that their salary would be raised to at least HK$6,000 (US$766) a month once they were trained.
Currently, the standard wage for domestic workers in Hong Kong is HK$4,310 a month.
Meanwhile, at least 20 nursing school graduates from the Philippines will come to Hong Kong for elderly nursing jobs, Cheung Kit-man, chairman of the Hong Kong Employment Agencies Association, said. Their starting salary could reach at least HK$5,000,
The main responsibility would be to take care of the elderly, but a reasonable amount of household chores and cooking would also have to be done, he said.
Cheung’s agency reached an agreement with the Philippine government early this year for this arrangement and the first batch of carers could arrive to Hong Kong in February next year.
The city’s elderly population is expected to double to 2.3 million by 2034, data from the Census and Statistics Department indicates.
Yes your salary there in israel is much higher here from HK but definitely before you go there you spend morethan300k
How to apply, I’m Philippine, you have regency in Philip in?
Hk is not suitable for housemaid ,very difficult n very low sallary,wonners are not friendy too
Your right hinde ka matatawag na tunay na caregiver kung ang visa mo eh domestic helper pa din…tapos kilangan nursing grad…pg pinay…mga Indonesian training lng cla yng iba hinde pa nakatapos ng high school..tapos lamang pa cla sa sahud…..sad
MariaTheresa DeGuzman
You work as a caregiver but your visa is domestic helper is it…
Jemelene Cerro Escabal Revil ….
Are you sure theres no such visa as caregiver here in hk…all are domestic helper. .were is your agency her in hk…can you send me the name of the agency …
MariaTheresa DeGuzman : hello may i know the agency name you applied? thanks
why the salary is not equal 6000 for the indonisian and the filipina is 5000 it must be equal same look after elderly right?
I am a midwifery graduate, in the Phil’s. and I have experienced 8yrs. of taking care Porpor, before, and she passed away, at the age of 94 yrs. old, now ,I am working here, one the family here in Mid Levels, I am the one cooking here, we are 4helpers on this family, my salary now is HK$4,900, if ,I still have chance to taking care, the old people, I , really love it, how could, I , apply on this, job, to serve and giving my tender loving care, for the old ones,,,,thanks