Myanmar maids
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Coolkidsrock2:
My maids only send money home just before their return. This is so that they have control of how the money is being used. Otherwise, there will be nothing left by the time they go home.
I supposed it make not much difference as most likely they remit the funds to a next of kin e.g mother in her case so producing passport for withdrawal might be out of the picture?piyobaby:
[quote=\"Coolkidsrock2\"]Western Union may be a safer bet in the sense that the maid just need to produce her passport at her home country to collect the money. Risk of spelling error in the name is low as it is based on passport name.
The risk of her using the name of someone else is spelling error in the name so that she may encounter difficulties in withdrawing her money, though am not sure how stringent the name check is.
My maids are not highly educated and they had no prior experience with the banking system and not sure of the spelling of the name of the recipient.
Am not sure how other maids experience is with calling back to Myanmar. We do not seem to be able to establish contact there. The message is to try again. Agent said it is common but we had been trying for months. Is it true?[/quote]Mine request to send money back every 2mths once her loan is cleared. I leave it to her since it is her money. On my end I'm only trying to offer some help since she is totally clueless on how to go about it. I do not wish for her hard earned money to be cheated away or fly away.
She tried calling back yest and the 1st try was bad due to bad connection but the 2nd try she managed to talk to her mum for a good 5mins or so b4 the line cuts off. -
nkthen:
hquek:
oh, not sure if it's common. with Indo helpers, they (used to) send letters home. My Myanmese helper won't even try - she will only call home. The prepaid envelops I bought for her totally never use.
That's because the postal services in Myanmar sucks... big time. Most of the time your mail will be lost.
Opps....after yest's attempt for her to call back and she telling us that the line keep changing (unstable), I suggested for her to write home instead. -
piyobaby:
nkthen:
[quote=\"hquek\"]oh, not sure if it's common. with Indo helpers, they (used to) send letters home. My Myanmese helper won't even try - she will only call home. The prepaid envelops I bought for her totally never use.
That's because the postal services in Myanmar sucks... big time. Most of the time your mail will be lost.
Opps....after yest's attempt for her to call back and she telling us that the line keep changing (unstable), I suggested for her to write home instead.[/quote]The connection will be better if the Myanmar side calls to Singapore.
If the maids are near the border of other countries, you can try to see if her side can receive the calls. The call quality will be much better. -
It wasn’t that bad after all cos she managed to speak on the phone for about 5mins on the 2nd attempt before the line cut off. Her township is about an hr away from Yangon.
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Hi, anyone has send their Myanmar maid for any English improvement course? Any recommendation? I really have a hard time to understand my maid.
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Language can be trained. It really depends how often you communicate with her.
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hi, anyone train their burmese maid to speak mandarin?
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Hi fcmaid…yes, language can be trained, but I am a working mother, 2 kids under age 5 at home with maid alone during day time.
Communication is already an issue, how to have a good chat with her? :< -
Viene:
If your kids can speak to her, your maid should be able to pick up until their level at least.Hi fcmaid...yes, language can be trained, but I am a working mother, 2 kids under age 5 at home with maid alone during day time.
Communication is already an issue, how to have a good chat with her? :<
My own personal maid can speak english, mandarin and hokkien.
My family speaks to her in different languages so she is able to pick it up.
Sometimes they are conscious of speaking and creating a certain fear that they might be ridicule because of the words they wrongly uses. -
A little encouragement will go a long way
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