Standing with Singapore’s foreign domestic workers

MyHelper is a social enterprise dedicated to alleviating the debt burden of domestic helpers, ensuring their psycho-social well-being during their stay in Singapore, and providing them with skills that enhance their employability after their contracts end.

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Debt burden

We educate helpers on their rights to fair wages and fair employment terms, and work to lighten the debt many carry when they arrive in Singapore.

Well-being

We create care and community support groups to give helpers a sense of family and belonging while they are far from home.

Employability

We equip helpers with financial literacy and skills training that help them build a better life once their contracts end.

About the founder

James Quek was previously the Executive Director of World Vision Singapore, an international Christian humanitarian organisation. He has had a varied career as a school teacher, a senior journalist with The Business Times, and an entrepreneur.

In his travels to poverty-alleviation projects across 16 countries, he saw that women were the standard bearers of their families — and that when things became untenable, many had to leave home to work as domestic helpers overseas. James founded MyHelper to make life a little easier for these hardy women who have left the safety and comfort of their homes in search of work opportunities in Singapore.

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“I need time off to enjoy myself and simply have fun. It is very hard being a maid in Singapore. I am thankful that there is an organisation that cares for me and organises fun trips for us.”

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We’re happy to explain our welfare programmes, training subsidies, and advocacy work.

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