JOAN is 35 years old, married with 2 children, and they are 15 and 13 years old. She is a High School graduate and was not able to finish her studies due to poverty. Her mother worked as a helper before, and her father was a truck driver. She graduated in HS in 2008. Her first job was as a saleslady in a small store in their hometown. Her main job was to restock, cashier, and inventory, as well as to clean and dust the items. She only worked for a year because she got married and had her firstborn child on year 2010, and she welcomed her second child in 2012. Her husband works as a driver. Her husband's earnings sometimes cannot keep up with their daily expenses. So she has decided to work as a helper.

FROM 2015 TO 2020 - She was working for a Filipino family in a 2-storey house. The couple had 2 children, and they were 10 years old and a newborn baby. Her Sir was an OFW. She knows how to change a diaper, change clothes, bathe the baby, and sing nursery rhymes, like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, ABCs, baba black ship, My toes my knees, and other Filipino children's songs. She knows how to sterilize milk bottles, make milk, cook food for a baby, like pumpkin puree, mashed potato, carrot puree, porridge, put a baby to sleep, and many more. Sometimes she slept with the baby if her employer was not around. For the eldest child, she cooked food and gave him, and he fed himself, prepared his school bag, snacks, uniforms, and water bottle. When the baby was sleeping, she would do the cleaning in the house, washing the clothes, ironing, and cooking. Due to COVID, she needed to go back to her own house.

FROM 2020 TO 2023- She was jobless; she only took care of her own family.

FROM JAN 2023 TO NOV 2024 - She worked for a Filipino family in a 2-storey house. She was serving a couple and taking care of the granny, who was 75 years old and had suffered a stroke. She was unable to walk and needed constant attention. She bathed her, changed her diaper, prepared breakfast, gave her medicines, and massaged her legs. If the children were not available, she would bring the elderly to her doctor's appointment. Aside from taking the elderly, she also cooked for the family, washed the clothes, and ironed. She left because she had an opportunity to work in Bahrain.

FROM NOV 2024 TO JULY 2025 - She was working in Bahrain for an arab family. The family lived in a 2-storey house. She was serving a couple and 2 grown-up children. She did all the household chores, such as cleaning the house, washing the clothes, ironing, vacuuming the carpet, washing the toilets, and cooking. She mentioned that her madam was very strict and liked to find faults with her work, no matter how she tried; in the eyes of her madam, her effort was still not good enough.

Joan can cook like Chicken biryani, Sambusa, Chicken curry, Caldereta, Menudo, Adobo, Fried fish with Arabic rice, Afitada
Lumpiang Shanghai, Sinigang, Nilaga, Igado, Batchoy, Kare kare, and many more.

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