Many domestic workers in the Philippines work endless hours for very little pay.
Under the country's labour code, $18 a month is considered enough pay for the country's 2.5 million helpers, almost 400,000 of whom are minors.
Cecile Oebanda, a social worker at the Visayan Dorum Foundation, told Al Jazeera that the conditions were close to slavery.
Al Jazeera's Marga Ortigas reports from Manila.
