Dear amah, where are you: Group aids foreigners in search of their S’porean caregivers
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Siblings Paul and Ingrid Schroder at the back of their family's flat in Dunearn Road in 1960, with their amah Rukiah and her husband Rohani.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF INGRID SCHRODER
SINGAPORE —Dozens of former Singapore expatriates around the world are going on social media to search for the domestic helpers who looked after them or their children in Singapore more than half a century ago.
They are contacting history enthusiasts on Facebook groups, hoping to glean clues about their former amahs and ayahs, who often became like part of the family.
