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Word: carandang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2008-2008
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...every day, and half of the new hires are women, flying off to earn salaries that are propping up the country. Last year alone, overseas workers sent home $17 billion in cash remittances, according to the World Bank. "Without the remittances, our economy will instantly collapse," says Dr. Honey Carandang, a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of the Philippines. "The whole country knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Motherless Generation | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...make for their families. But while children whose mothers are nurses in Canada or housekeepers in Hong Kong often go to good private schools and have MP3 players, there is a growing sentiment that trading global dollars for a generation raised on cell-phone minutes is a raw deal. Carandang, who works with families of migrant workers, named her most recent book after one boy's lament for his mother working as a caregiver in the Middle East: "The light of the home is gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Motherless Generation | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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