Over 5,000 undocumented Filipino workers are now working in war-torn Afghanistan and the number of illegal deployed Filipinos there is still growing, local recruiters reported today.
Recruitment leaders reported that Filipino workers continue to sneak into Afghanistan, opting to defy the government-imposed deployment ban.
Majority of the illegally deployed Filipino workers are currently employed in American military facilities.
Quoting one of the OFWs working in Afghanista, recruiters said, Filipino workers have been coming back and forth from the Philippines and Afghanistan even with the prevailing deployment ban.
According to the worker, who works as a mechanic in Kabul, he returns to the country every six months and go back to Afghanitan with his American employers paying for his plane fare.
Many of the Filipinos are working as country managers/directors, project team leaders, lead engineers, project managers, and department heads in Afghanistan and receiving monthly salaries ranging from $1,200 to $3,000.
The Philippine government imposed a deployment ban to Afghanistan in 2007 due to prevailing hostilities there.
The US has increased it troops in Afghanistan to 94,000 recently and expects to add more troops by the year’s end before pulling them out in July 2011.
The worker claimed that Filipinos are recruited mostly in the Pampanga and Olongapo areas. Many of them are children of former employees of Subic Naval Base and Clark Airforce Base and therefore familiar with operations of American bases.
Source: Philippine Star
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