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OWWA Releases P7.5M For ‘Balik Pinas Balik Hanapbuhay’ Program
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration has released P7.58 million in livelihood assistance to its member-migrant workers under the “Balik Pinas Balik Hanapbuhay” program during the first three months of the year.
OWWA Davao Region…
List of Qualified OWWA CMWSP, EDSP Scholars For SY 2018-2019
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration has released the list of 50 qualified scholars under the Congressional Migrant Workers Scholarship Program for School Year 2018-2019.
Likewise, OWWA has released the list of 400 qualified…
OWWA-ARMM Continues Support of Returning OFWs
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration upgrades the Balik-Pilipinas, Balik-Hanapbuhay livelihood program to better serve returning Overseas Filipino Workers. The livelihood program enables qualified OFW returnees to be entrepreneurs by…
OWWA Reminds Vacationing OFWs to Renew Inactive Memberships
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) wishes to remind overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) whose membership with OWWA has expired, to renew their membership and retain their active status as members.
The reminder is especially…
132 Distressed OFWs Received Livelihood Financial Assistance from OWWA
Rosana (not her real name) went to Cyprus to work as domestic worker. Just like thousands of overseas Filipino workers, she went overseas with big dreams for her family. And just like hundreds of OFWs who seemed to have ran out of luck,…
OFW Families Warned vs OWWA Benefits Scam
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) on Tuesday cautioned overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families to be wary of scammers pretending to be connected with the agency.
OWWA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac issued the…
OWWA Urges Employment Agencies to Step Up in OFW Protection
As the number of Filipino workers deployed abroad continue to rise, employment agencies must do their share in ensuring the welfare and protection of overseas Filipino workers.
Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac of the Overseas Workers Welfare…
OWWA Warns: No Truth on FB Post on P20,000 Handout For Ex-OFWs
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration has disproved a Facebook post claiming that former OFWs can receive P20,000 cash purportedly as part of President Rodrigo Duterte's assistance to Filipino migrant workers.
In a statement posted…
Former OWWA Scholar Establishes Career as OFW
Mr. Olivier Togonon’s father was a seafarer for twenty-eight years. As luck would have it, he would also become an OFW himself.
His journey started through one of Overseas Workers Welfare Administration’s (OWWA’s) academic scholarship…
OWWA launches 2017 Model OFW Family Search for Caraga
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration Regional Welfare Office Caraga announces the launching of the search for Model OFW Family of the Year Award (MOFYA) in Caraga region.
The annual MOFYA search is designed to give due recognition…
