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Lost, Delayed Balikbayan Boxes: What Senders Need to Know

For many Overseas Filipino Workers around the world, sending a balikbayan box is a tangible expression of love and care from afar. It contains...

Warning Issued to Myanmar Scam Farm Recruiters as Three Arrested for Human Trafficking at NAIA

Three Filipinos—Sarah Jane Santos Marquez, Jalrumax Manaois Turingan, and Noel Bansag Rodriguez—have been arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation’s Airport Investigation Division after...

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Lost, Delayed Balikbayan Boxes: What Senders Need to Know

For many Overseas Filipino Workers around the world, sending a balikbayan box is a tangible expression of love and care from afar. It contains...

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Lost, Delayed Balikbayan Boxes: What Senders Need to Know

For many Overseas Filipino Workers around the world, sending a balikbayan box is a tangible expression of love and care from afar. It contains...

Singapore-based OFW Grateful for OWWA Benefits After Stroke

A 56-year-old overseas Filipino worker (OFW) and aircraft technician based in Singapore, Carlito Rio Sr., expressed heartfelt gratitude to the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration...

Warning Issued to Myanmar Scam Farm Recruiters as Three Arrested for Human Trafficking at NAIA

Three Filipinos—Sarah Jane Santos Marquez, Jalrumax Manaois Turingan, and Noel Bansag Rodriguez—have been arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation’s Airport Investigation Division after...

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Most Common Items Found in an OFW Balikbayan Box

A balikbayan box is always a joy to see for Filipino families with some members living or working abroad. The box generally contains a...

5 Biggest Culture Shocks for First Time Workers in Middle East

Many Filipinos are looking forward to new opportunities in the Middle East mainly because of the higher salaries offered compared to working in the...

7 Reasons OFWs are Ideal Life Partners

Some people are still deciding whether or not it is a good idea to marry an OFW or Overseas Filipino Worker. There's sort of...

8 Common Illnesses Overseas Filipino Workers Suffer

Overseas Filipino Workers or OFWs belong to various sectors and industries; from exposure to harmful substances to chronic fatigue and overwork and lack of...

11 Common Domestic Helpers Problems

Domestic helpers are among the biggest labor exports of the Philippines to the rest of the world. Driven by low wages and lack of...

9 New Year’s Resolutions for Overseas Filipino Workers

Do you believe in New Year’s resolutions? If no, then you should, because no matter how poor the success rate of fulfilling one’s promises...

19 Common OFW Problems, Causes & How to Prevent Them

Sometimes we think having an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) solves all problems in the family. But the fact is that our OFW families are...

4 Reasons Why Many Filipino Workers Return Home Without OFW Savings

Contrary to many expectations that once a Filipino goes abroad and gets paid a salary higher than back home, many overseas Filipino workers go...

7 Ways To Detect Illegal Recruitment and How to Report Such Crimes

We have always read news about Filipinos aspiring to work abroad, promised high-paying jobs abroad, only to find out that they have been duped...