Day of the “Maids”
It’s Sunday, day of the ‘maids’ in Hong Kong. This is an extraordinary phenomenon, experienced intensely if you’re walking the streets of Central Hong or practically in any public space in Kowloon. There are something like 400,000 “domestic helpers” (“maids” to some, “servants” to a few) in Hong Kong. Yes, that’s a lot for a city/region of about 7.5 million. They are overwhelmingly female, and from the Philippines or from Indonesia.