With some 200,000 domestic migrant workers employed in Lebanon, there’s certainly a market for this new concept, the first of its kind in the country: a training center for maids.
“Most people have some kind of problem with their maid but there is one simple solution to this and that is knowledge,” center founder and director Rachid Beydoun told the Daily Star.
At a starting cost of $180, The House Keeper Training Academy teaches maids how to clean and use proper etiquette. The four-day course also offers basic language instruction and provides information on migrant worker rights.
While the new center could be seen as a welcome move to improve conditions for maids in Lebanon, it’s also stirring some controversy.
"I think the heart is in the right place in terms of trying to work on the issue, but
