Himaya Montenegro is currently programme staff of the Labor Education and Research Network (LEARN) and organiser of UNITED, the domestic workers’ union in the Philippines. Himaya is a former domestic worker who continued her studies as a daycare teacher sponsored by LEARN. She was then recruited in LEARN as the lead organiser for domestic workers in the Philippines.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe Filipino Kasambahay’s long struggle against invisibility
With more than one million domestic workers in the Philippines there is massive potential for collective action....