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Connecting OFWs with Families and Friends Through Facebook
Since the advent of the worldwide web in 1989, the world has never been the same again. And with social networking coming into the picture in the early 2000s, netizens found an even bigger excuse to connect with each other. The first networking site to...
BPI Search For 10 Outstanding OFW Children
In recognition of children of Overseas Filipino Workers who have exhibited exceptional abilities in academics, business, and sports and leadership qualities in their communities, the Bank of the Philippine Islands is now accepting entries for this year’s...
Households With Migrant Workers Buy More Cars
MORE Filipino families that are dependent on remittances from relatives working overseas bought cars or houses in the second quarter, a central bank survey shows. Rosabel Guerrero, director of the Bangko Sentral’s Department of Economic Statistics,...
OFW Parenting Tips: Keeping In Touch Across the Miles
A week away from the people you love can be difficult to bear. It’s so much worse if the time period is in months or even years, and in another country to boot. Staying in touch with all your kids and keeping tabs on the goings-on in their lives becomes...
9 Things To Do Before You Start Your Overseas Job
It is not surprising that when you ask a fresh graduate what’s his/her plans, he/she replies with the word “abroad” in the first sentence. And why not, his or her kuya or uncle or cousin must have tipped him/her that working abroad promises...
OFW Families Seen to Save Less, Spend More
THE NUMBER of Filipino households that saved a portion of the remittances they received from migrant family members declined in April, according to the latest survey conducted by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. Results of the Consumer Expectations Survey...
Search for Model OFW Family of the Year Award Now Open
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) recently opened the search for the 2010 Model overseas Filipino worker (OFW) of the Year Award (MOFYA). OWWA 2 director Robert Bassig said the annual MOFYA search is for Filipino migrant workers who have...
Araw Ng Pasasalamat Honors OFW Families on June 7th
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Friday announced that 40,000 families of the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in 17 regions will be given tribute on Monday during the Migrant Worker’s Day of “Araw ng Pasasalamat.” OWWA Administrator...
‘60% of OFW families are poor’
DESPITE the steadily rising remittance levels of Filipino migrant workers—reaching $18 billion in 2009—at least 60 percent of their families remain poor, according to a Church-backed group doing support work for the sector. This, as the head of the...