{"id":257,"date":"2002-06-29T12:05:22","date_gmt":"2002-06-29T16:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multi-monde.ca\/en\/?p=257"},"modified":"2015-09-19T20:51:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T00:51:05","slug":"the-melca-salvador-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multi-monde.ca\/en\/the-melca-salvador-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Melca Salvador Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <strong>Melca Salvador<\/strong> is unable to complete the stringent requirements of <strong>Canada<\/strong>\u2019s Live-In Caregiver Program, she is issued a deportation notice. The spunky caregiver and activist, who has a 7-year old son born in <strong>Canada<\/strong>, decides to fight the deportation. This short \u00abguerilla-style\u00bb documentary charts the ups and downs of the 18-month campaign to stop her deportation until the final victory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 27, 2009<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 We are saddened that our dear friend, <strong>Melca Salvador<\/strong>, has died after a long and heroic battle with cancer here in <strong>Montreal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Melca, a former domestic helper from the <strong>Philippines<\/strong>, leaves her young son, Richard, in the able hands of Evelyn Calugay and Melca\u2019s friends at the Philippine women\u2019s group PINAY. They have been a strong force at Melca\u2019s side these last few years.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts go out to Richard and the family she left behind in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Melca was always a fighter and won her struggle to stay in Canada &#8211; with the help of many supporters here and around the globe &#8211; when the Canadian government tried to deport her. Melca, because of the birth of her son, had been unable to fulfill the Canadian government\u2019s strict criteria under the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP).<\/p>\n<p>Your memory lives on, Melca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Melca Salvador is unable to complete the stringent requirements of Canada\u2019s Live-In Caregiver Program, she is issued a deportation notice. 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