Jayson is from the Philippines and was raised by his grandparents.
He was seven when his mother moved to Canada to work as a caregiver.
Apart from weekly Skype calls, and birthday and Christmas presents, Jayson didn’t really know his mother.
When he arrived in Canada, eight years later, uprooted for a second time, Jayson was homesick, lonely, and overwhelmed.
Ninety percent of newcomers who immigrate to Canada as caregivers are women from the Philippines.