A female domestic worker was sent to hospital for a medical check after locking herself in a room in a North Point residence on Hong Kong Island on Wednesday.
At 9:40am the maid, a recent arrival in Hong Kong who was thought to be homesick, became emotional and locked herself in a room in her employer’s apartment in North Point, the Oriental Daily reported.
She reportedly screamed and cried inside the room and her female employer was unable to open the door, so she called police. When police and firemen arrived, they calmed the maid down and persuaded her to open the door and leave the room.
The maid was sent to hospital accompanied by her employer, but was still unstable and screamed when the ambulance arrived. Members of the foreign workers community advise newcomers to cope with homesickness by meeting people, joining clubs and associations or taking up a hobby.
Clubs here doesn’t mean dirty clubs….it means associations/groups that she could congregate with during her off day or she could talk to during her break
time.
I’m working 18hrs a day without rest ..
Really relate with her situation homesickness attacked first to third month really difficult how to gone this through prayer is really helpful.,,,
if newly arrived, first timer, i think she’s in the period of adjustment in her new job environment,
how if the employer don’t allow the helper to use handphone?
may kaparehas pala ako hehe,maaga nagigising
It depends on how you applied those suggestions no matter how busy a person to his /her work still can find a way to relax herself/himself just be focus and think that doing this to the family and i sudgest it’s better to spend time in Church during day off
Inhilag Buhe , sleep with child? What kind of parent are they ? They don’t like kids ?
He said more than 12 hours working not 12 hours
The best thing to do for the first timer working abroad,is allowing them to communicate with their family,love ones and friends to eased the loneliness or homesick. Yan ang isang paraan na alam ko para hindi ma homesick..