House Helping Websites

Site 1
Site Name: House Helping
Domain Name: http://www.househelping.com/
Overall Rating: 3/5
Summary: This site is on house helping but on an entirely different plane. It is about helping on some domestic issues such as divorce, bankruptcy, probates, foreclosures and relocation. Nevertheless, it is about helping around in the house in an entirely different way than what we usually mean by house helps. Its stated mission is to provide assistance during times of great need and not to exploit the situation to its advantage. It provides further assistance to home owners who want to sell their house and need to relocate somewhere else. This kind of expert and professional assistance is helpful with expensive homes.

Site 2
Site Name: Gumtree
Domain Name: http://sydney.gumtree.com.au
Overall Rating: 4/5
Summary: The site to visit when looking for full-time nannies. They offer those who need someone to care for toddlers and kids the services of their nannies whom they had screened for proper behaviour and work attitudes. Most of the nannies are available on flexible time schedules. Professional nannies earn a decent pay with days off and other fringe benefits normally available only to office workers. Most nannies work Mondays to Fridays only or alternatively for only 9 days per fortnight. This agency hires nannies that are available to work on a full time basis and they do not accept who are either temporary residents or those on short travels such as students hoping to earn a little side income.

Site 3
Site Name: Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc.
Domain Name: http://www.visayanforum.org
Overall Rating: 4/5
Summary: This website hosts the Visayan Forum Foundation which is doing a great kind of advocacy work – almost a thankless job – by working for the betterment and upliftment of society’s lowest level of workers. Domestic work is hardly recognized in current Philippine society and underage domestic workers are the most exploited and abused kind of worker anywhere. Filipino families look down on these house-helpers and house-helping is regarded as the lowest type of job anyone can get. Philippine households take their services as something they cannot do without but treat domestic workers as second-class citizens. These workers usually have very low salaries, no benefits whatsoever and willing expose themselves to severe forms of abuse and exploitation. Many of them are as young as 12 or 14 years old doing hard menial tasks.

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