THERE is an urgent need for a recreational centre with proper facilities for Hongkong's 100,000 domestic workers, the support group United Migrant Workers said yesterday. But many good ideas from the Government and concerned individuals have languished because ''nobody who can ever helps'', according to the group's spokesman. ''What is needed is dedicated people with dedicated wallets, but a prime problem is that you cannot get anybody to actually do anything,'' he said. The warning came as the thousands of off-duty maids who gather in and around Statue Square in Central, added their voices to the call for shelter and organised activities. While the workers themselves called for an alternative to the ''humiliation'' of gathering on dirty pavements, social workers said the numbers of women flooding into the territory from the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and other Asian countries was putting a tremendous strain on emergency facilities. One social worker said: ''These women need somewhere decent to go when they are turned out in the middle of the night by their employers or find themselves stranded because their agent turns out to be fraudulent. ''There are so many victims and there are certainly not adequate facilities.'' Yesterday domestic helpers who gathered in the Chater Road area condemned it as dirty, crowded, noisy and boring. But all responded: ''What else can we do? There is nowhere else for us to go.'' They were excited by the proposal to turn an abandoned Western hospital into a refuge and recreation centre and urged the Government to back such plans. Ms Lyn Floresca has been a domestic helper in Hongkong for just over three years. Every Sunday she goes to Chater Garden to meet her friends and relatives from Baguio City. Yesterday as the storm clouds threatened and the wind whipped at the plastic ground sheet, Ms Floresca described the ''shame'' of being moved on from Prince's Building and other places in Central when she and her friends took cover from the rain. ''Tourists take our pictures, people stare at us and we have to sit on the ground. I get embarrassed,'' Ms Floresca said. Like many of the domestic helpers the South China Morning Post talked to yesterday, she would most like to spend her Sunday's doing something productive - playing sport, studying and most of all, learning to drive. Ms Linda Quiniones drops into Statue Square for about one hour every Sunday and public holidays to catch up with friends and relatives from towns in her home province of Isabela. While the visit stops her from feeling homesick, she says she cannot stay sitting on the concrete any longer than that as embarrassment forces her to leave. ''Chinese, British, everybody - they look down on the people here,'' Ms Quiniones said. ''Most of us are professionals in the Philippines and we should be able to act like professionals in Hongkong.'' At 50, Ms Quiniones is putting her second child through college. Her 23-year-old daughter is a teacher, but will soon be working in Hongkong as a domestic helper because of the poor wages at home.