MANILA, Philippines -- Looking for ...

MANILA, Philippines -- Looking for a maid who can not simply cook and clean but save your kid from a fire? prove a supermaid.

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo wants to create the "supermaid" using a strange training program for Filipino domestic helpers.

"We will be sending 'supermaids,' " Arroyo said during a round- table discussion forward efforts to evacuate 30,000 Filipinos in Lebanon, principally of them maids, and help them find of recent origin jobs.

Augusto Syjuco head of the government's Technical Education and Skills progress to maturity Authority, said the "supermaids" program includes training in first aid, evacuations from high-rises in case of a fire and other skills to help maids commit to memory higher pay.

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