We thank you for your relentless and dedicated efforts to help pass the Magna Carta for Household Helpers. However, it still faces difficulties in the Senate and a looming deadline before the elections come May 2004. To help spread the spirit of the magna carta, click the poster and sticker icons below to have your own print ready copies at home.

AS CHURCH LEADERS

We seek guidance and support of religious leaders from different denominations, congregations, and inter-faith movements to:

1. Organize and bridge us to employers' groups

  • Sponsor Kasambahay and child labor orientations for employers

  • Encourage use of contracts

  • Set up counseling for employers

2. Engage in advocacy through radio stations, parish newsletters, bible studies, prayer brigades, homilies and sermons

  • To convince employers to allow their domestic workers to study again

  • Sponsor liturgical services honoring domestic workers

  • Hold specially-designed prayer events specifically for the intentions of domestic workers

  • Push our government to enact more effective laws to protect these children

3. Set up lay apostolate programs for helping domestic workers and employers alike such as to:

  • Counsel and mediate between domestic workers and their employers

  • Conduct values education sessions for domestic workers and their employers

  • Make your organization's facilities available for their meetings

  • Sponsor skills training, as well as educational and recreational activities

  • Generate donations of educational supplies for domestic workers who are pursuing their studies

To see sample letter to employers, click here. Mainlink_Programs & Services_Kasambahay_Employers_Tips.doc

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