If you are looking for help with the legalities of having a maid you should look at the following website: www.previred.com. Unfortunately it is all in Spanish, so you may need help if you are newly arrived, but it is a good place to start. Tell the company you are working with here about this website too, as many don't have much information to assist you in completing a contract with your maid. A contract is a legal document and should be entered into even with a part-time maid. You need to know your rights and those of your maid!
Have A Nana Available For Hire?
Email the Web Apprentice, webapprentice@cachile.com with any information you have about Nanas available.
Please include:
- Contact details for the maid
- Contact details for the last employer so that those in search of a maid have someone to get references and more specific information from.
- What hours and number of days the maid wishes to work
- Whether she/he wishes to be a puerta al dentro (live-in) or puerta al fuera (day maid)
Nana ads will be posted for 1 month. If you wish to have the ad inserted again you will need to re-submit it, so please keep a copy of what you write.
Nana Available
Karina is looking for work as a Puerta al fuera. At present she is working for me 5 days a week while my maid is on maternity leave. In late August my maid returns to work and so I can only offer Karina 2 days a week. She needs to work 5 days a week. If you are wanting a maid I can highly recommend Karina. She was previously a maid for Judy Squire, for anyone who has been around long enough to remember her, and Judy could not speak highly enough of her. I am equally impressed with Karina. She is punctual, works independently, shows great initiative, is great with my two 6 year olds and regularly plays with them. She understands simple English, but doesn't speak much. I would be happy for someone to take her for the full 5 days a week, as this would be best for her, but if there is someone wanting a maid for 3 days, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, that would work too.
Contact me at megedszy@hotmail .com for more information or you can contact Karina directly on 07 7968344 (after 8pm) or 09 74447777 (her husband's cellular).
Megan Szymanski
Posted: 30/7/08
Nana Available
Nana looking for full-time or part-time work (not live-in). Magali, an experienced nana, is looking for a job as her current employer has left Chile. She is interested in working from Mondays to Fridays or part-time with a minimum of 3 weekdays. She is married with a young daughter (9 yrs) whom her husband can look after in the evenings if the need occurs (i.e. for babysitting or dinner parties etc.)
Details:
Name: Magali Fernande
Age: 38
Nationality: Chilean
Mobile nr: 91 36 65 74
Magali has references.
Posted: 30/7/08
Nana Available
Berna is a fantastic ‘puerto afuera’ (live out) nanna, she is still working for Mel Egginton, an Aussie expat until recently living in Santiago but now returned to Australia. Berna will be available from August to work fulltime work with a family. On behalf of Mel, I am happy to take calls and provide references for Berna. We would have employed Berna ourselves but that we happened to find a good nanna our kids are happy with in the meantime,
Probably the best reference I can give about Berna, is an extract from an email Mel sent me prior to our move over here to Santiago.....
> Truly, she is adorable. Her name is Bernardita however she likes to be called Berna. She is a very young and energetic 54 year old. ...She only works Monday – Friday for us however will sleep over whenever we need her to. It is actually hard to get her to finish work at nights. She comes in the morning by 7.15am at the latest and then I am generally trying to ‘push’ her out the door at 6.30pm as I hate her travelling home late. She cooks, cleans, irons and takes exceptional care of Jack. She has also travelled to Australia with me in the past (2 months in Melbourne in Jan/Feb this year) when I have had projects and even though she speaks no English she had no problems. ....She still has a family from England that she worked for before us for 7 years and they take her over to England at every opportunity to visit them as they really miss her. She is a well travelled Nanny!
Please provide anyone who may be interested my contact details: Donna Thibault. Phone (BH): +56 2 4443305; Mobile (AH): +56 9 78795850; Email: donna.thibault@orica.com. I would be happy to hear from families making the transition to life in Santiago and help out where I can.
Posted: 30/7/08
Nana Available
Excellent live-out nana available Mon-Fri. Working hours 9:30am to 4:00pm. Has worked with me since 2002. Lives in Lo Barnechea and will be available as of next week. Prefers to work in La Dehesa. Very reliable, honest and hard-working. Also a seamstress - does excellent alterations, repairs shirt collars,hems, does curtains, cushion covers, etc. Her name is Magali Rios.
For references you can call me, Patricia Alfaro, 249 6754 or 07-767 9171 or call Maria Teresa at Dr. Alfaro's surgery- 216 1445. You can call Magali directly at 216 0888 or 08-524 2499.
Posted: 13/7/08
Nana Available
Peruvian nana – Amparo.
She worked with us for 2 months and was always punctual, dedicated and hardworking. She has had a terrible time in Chile and is desperate to find work urgently. She is completely dependable and takes her job seriously.
She has three children, one of whom is only two called Juanito. She brought him to our house so as not to leave him to be looked after by her other young children.
He’s adorable and absolutely no trouble – very quiet and didn't stop Amparo from doing her job.
Amparo is wanting to start immediately and everyone concerned would be so pleased if she could find something over the weekend, or even today.
She will charge around $190,000 monthly, works from 9.00 to 6.00 and was always excellent with time keeping.
One more thing:
Her husband died some time ago and now in Chile she is completely on her own. She lacks a bed and a basic chest of drawers for her children's clothes and so if anyone can help it would be marvellous.
Her number is (08) 4589161
Our numbers are 4741868 and (08) 18 29 732.
Thanks for your time,
James and Penelope
Posted: 13/6/08
Nana Available
We are leaving Santiago in June - and our nana needs to find a new family to work for.
Her name is Carmen and she has worked in our home for the past 3 years
She is honest and dependable, respectful, hard working, plus she's a really great cook.
She is Peruvian (with permanent Chilean residency), single, late 40s, no dependants (= no drama)
She prefers to work puerta afuera - though she is keen to please and will work when you ask her to. She routinely stays in our house full time to care for our dogs when we go on vacation
You can call me, Sabine at 9 822 7498 or Carmen directly at 9 573 4915 for more information.
PERUVIAN NANA (in her 40s) LOOKING FOR WORK
Hard-working, trustworthy, reliable.
Available to work immediately - 'puertas afuera' or 'puertas adentro'.
Comes recommended by James Doo and Penelope Lawrie.
(members of Santiago Community Church)
Contact us at james_doo@hotmail.com for more information, or contact Isabel directly on: 09 768 91 374
Nana/Maid available immediately to work five days a week puertas afuera/non live in
In the Las Condes, Providencia, lower Viticura areas (Lo Barnechea with Transantiago is a minimum two hour trip on a good day). Alicia is very reliable, does a great job, is trustworthy and she also does some cooking. You can contact her directly at 9 235 6743 or contact me at 8 529-1554.
I have moved to an apartment and don't need her full time that is why I am letting her go. She will work for me one day a week until she finds something permanent. My kids and dog love her (me too) and of course don't want her to go but we are putting her best interest ahead of ours.
Regards,
Renée Oliver
P.S. I check my mail frequently if you would prefer to contact me via email.