HS undergrad takes chances in Middle East, now helps fellow domestic helpers in UAE get jobs

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – They were so poor she had to drop out of high school and leave for the Middle East to be a domestic helper at a very young age, with no English communication skills and without having the vaguest idea how it was to be a housemaid in a foreign land.

These days, 43-year-old Janylyn Sayon-Garcia of Tuao in Cagayan Valley, runs three businesses in Dubai – a salon, a billiards hall operated by her husband, and a human resources consultancy outfit for the unemployed...