Maid of Honour | Honouring Singaporean Helpers

Honouring the ones who care for our homes.

What is Maid of Honour?

Maid of Honour is a final-year campaign aimed at improving respect and wellbeing for Foreign Domestic Workers (FDWs).

Pledge

Domestic helpers are so important. Yet harms still occur.

In Singapore, 301,600 foreign domestic workers (FDWs) kept homes running as of December 2024. Their contribution is real, routine and often unseen. Still, the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME) shelter hundreds of domestic workers in distress each year. Respect depends on everyday behaviour at home, not good intentions alone.

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Our Stories

Read on to hear the stories of helpers and their strength.

Three decades away from home: The silent strength of Mindy, a foreign domestic worker in Singapore

For 30 years, Mindy cared for families in Singapore while missing milestones with her own. Her journey reveals both the resilience and fragility of a life lived in service, far from home. Mindy, a 60-year-old foreign domestic worker from the Philippines, marked her 30th year in Singapore this year. She arrived in 1993 from the Philippines, leaving behind four children, the youngest just over a year old. “When I had to leave my family, my youngest daughter was only 1 year and