Home-care agencies with trained, vetted carers, booked and paid from abroad

Sri Lankans abroad have parents at home whom they cannot look after from Melbourne. They will pay, and the money stays.

Ask three families in your area who already employ a live-in helper what they pay, what went wrong last time, and whether they would switch to a vetted carer with a named backup. Then post a short notice in a Sri Lankan association's group abroad offering one trial week of daytime care for a parent in your town, priced per day. One paid trial booking, or a list of names asking for the price, tells you there is a buyer.

Who pays first

A son or daughter abroad whose parent's helper has just left, who wants a vetted carer in place quickly and can pay by card from overseas.

What leaves today

Care money now goes to informal helpers with no record and no standard; a vetted agency turns it into a trained workforce and a local business that keeps the fees.

How carers are vetted and insured, a written agreement on what a carer may and may not do, and who is called in an emergency.

Who starts which. Appendix

"yours too: your parents are the customer."

The child abroad is the buyer; the care given at home is what earns the trust.

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?