When Ms Helen Agpato was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2011, her employers not only paid the $30,000 medical bill, but waited on her for almost a year until she recovered.
"Out of about 100 domestic helpers I know here, I can say only about 10 or 20 have employers as good as mine," said Ms Agpato, who is from Mindanao in the Philippines.
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