Wong Maye-E
STARTING OUT: Waiting for their employment agents to pick them up at the airport, a group of about 50 Filipino women arrive to take up jobs as maids. Those who are abroad for the first time are nervous, but not Lenie Valdez, who comes from the Pangasinan province in the Philippines. It isn't the first time she will be working as a miad, having worked in Hong Kong for four years before.