{"id":15313,"date":"2020-03-02T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/02\/filipinos-step-into-the-breach-as-german-care-homes-run-low-on-staff"},"modified":"2020-03-02T18:00:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T09:00:39","slug":"filipinos-step-into-the-breach-as-german-care-homes-run-low-on-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15313","title":{"rendered":"Filipinos step into the breach as German care homes run low on staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies offer incentives to try to tempt workers from Philippines and elsewhere amid high demand<\/p>\n<p>Miko Coner Galeng has spent the last month and a half undergoing a crash course of quintessentially German skills and virtues: <em>p\u00fcnktlichkeit<\/em>, the art of being on time; <em>m\u00fclltrennung<\/em>, the importance of recycling waste into different bins; and <em>stossl\u00fcften, <\/em>or \u201cshock ventilation\u201d, where you open a window and turn off the heating for five minutes to let fresh air into a room.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, Galeng\u2019s only direct contact with German culture was a sausage stall called Wursty Wursty in his hometown of Manila. Now the 29-year-old Filipino works and lives in a care home for elderly people in the heart of the Ruhr valley and can fluently express surprise at a mishap with a full-throated <em>Ach du liebe Zeit! <\/em>(\u201cDear me!\u201d).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/02\/filipinos-step-into-the-breach-as-german-care-homes-run-low-on-staff\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies offer incentives to try to tempt workers from Philippines and elsewhere amid high demandMiko Coner Galeng has spent the last month and a half undergoing a crash course of quintessentially German skills and virtues: p\u00fcnktlichkeit, the art of b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,221,533,491,55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-germany","category-migration","category-philippines","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15315,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313\/revisions\/15315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}