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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’
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
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
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
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
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
OFW Families Better Off Now as They Invest, Save More
The lives of overseas Filipino workers’ families have improved over the past five years, as they save more and spend less on paying for debts incurred for job placement abroad,… Read more
Leyte Gov Carlos Jericho L. Petilla Hails Model OFW Families
Governor Petilla, who called the OFWs as “modern-day heroes” in his message, hailed them for their perseverance for the sake of a better life for themselves and their loved ones… Read more
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
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
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