Dont miss tonights screening of “THE NANNY BUSINESS” documentary on Global TV’s ‘Currents’ at 10pm (est)!

The Nanny Business follows Edelyn Pineda who waits to be picked up at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on a freezing cold night in February. The 27 year old, university educated mother of 3 has spent a grueling three days getting from Hong Kong to Toronto. In her hand she holds a contract to work as a live in caregiver, her work permit and visa. She only has 10 dollars left in her pocket, all that’s left after borrowing money from a loan shark in the Philippines to pay for her flight and thousands of dollars to a Canadian recruitment agency.

She waits for 3 hours in the cold, but no one comes to pick her up. Instead of a good job in a family home awaiting her, she ends up in a crowded apartment of other Filipino newcomers. Edelyn’s story is one of the central stories in “The Nanny Business”. Almost 5000 Filipino women arrive in Canada each year with dreams of changing their lives through a federal program with the lure of a fast-track to Canadian residency. Instead, many find themselves in a nightmare – cheated by recruiters, and misused by bad employers, trapped in a government program that promised so much but ended up facilitating abuse.

In The Nanny Business we follow some very brave nannies who go public. With the help of crusading journalists, human rights lawyers and other parents, they are already forcing change. This is their story.