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Skype Brings OFW Families Together at Noche Buena

Skype Brings OFW Families Together at Noche Buena

After being used extensively in offices and newsrooms, popular video teleconferencing software Skype has found its way to another unique place: the Noche Buena tables of Filipinos based overseas. For… Read more »

SWS: 52% of Pinoy Families Consider Themselves ‘Poor’

SWS: 52% of Pinoy Families Consider Themselves ‘Poor’

More Filipino families, roughly 10.4 million (or about 52 percent), consider themselves as “poor” and “food poor,” a new survey by pollster Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed. Both the poverty… Read more »

OFW Accused of Abandoning Family Arrested at Airport

OFW Accused of Abandoning Family Arrested at Airport

An overseas Filipino worker, who was sued by his wife for abandoning her and their five children, was prevented by airport authorities from leaving the country Tuesday morning, an official… Read more »

OWWA Honors Cordillera Model OFW Families

OWWA Honors Cordillera Model OFW Families

The Overseas Worker Welfare Administration (OWWA) gave recognition to the region’s model overseas Filipino worker (OFW) families from Sagada, Mountain Province and La Trinidad, Benguet in an awarding ceremony held… Read more »

UNICEF: Only 34% of Filipino Mothers Breastfeed Babies

UNICEF: Only 34% of Filipino Mothers Breastfeed Babies

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said only 34 percent of Filipino mothers practice exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of their babies. At a press conference on Thursday,… Read more »

More OFW Families Move up to Middle Class: Survey

More OFW Families Move up to Middle Class: Survey

A significant portion of families of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) have climbed out of the low-income bracket to become part of the lower-middle-class families, according to a Nielsen Media survey… Read more »

Encourage Kids to Save Money

Encourage Kids to Save Money

Habits, good or bad, truly start young. In an effort to teach children the importance of money management, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and partner institutions have embarked on… Read more »

Fewer OFW Families Saving Amid Low Remittance Rates

Fewer OFW Families Saving Amid Low Remittance Rates

BECAUSE of the strong peso, fewer families who are receiving remittances from overseas are allocating a portion into savings. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported that the percentage of… Read more »