Naia readies red carpet for OFWs
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) coming to the Philippines for the holidays will get a red-carpet welcome and may even win a prize upon arrival at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia).
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) coming to the Philippines for the holidays will get a red-carpet welcome and may even win a prize upon arrival at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia).
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has ordered the regional offices of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (Owwa) to help locate families of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) coming from areas hit by Typhoon “Pablo” in the Visayas and Mindanao.
Two families from Ilocos Sur and Eastern Samar received the prestigious Model OFW Family of the Year Award (Mofya) from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (Owwa).
The mother of Aimee Kay Sayson, the 7-year-old girl who died of hypothermia after being rescued in typhoon-devastated New Bataan town in Compostela Valley on Wednesday, is finally home.
Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) head Carmelita Dimzon reiterated Tuesday the benefits one can get in signing up with OWWA, following the death of a Filipino worker in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia last week.
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) is prepared to assist the more than 200 OFWs who were repatriated from Syria Tuesday.
Fourteen Filipinos who fled the worsening strife in Syria arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Sunday afternoon.
Families of overseas Filipino workers affected by the recent floods spawned by the southwest monsoon will get assistance from the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA).
Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (Owwa) chief Carmelita Dimzon on Wednesday said her agency has already prepared some assistance to Glenn Costes to be given once he comes back to the country.
Amid the criticisms the Philippines has received for being silent on the atrocities in Syria, the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration revealed on Thursday, that the government has been trying to bring home 1,300 Filipinos from that strife-torn country.
It was a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. A Filipina domestic helper died in Hong Kong after a Chinese woman, who jumped from the rooftop of a building in an apparent suicide attempt, fell on her, according to a report received by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration Office in Eastern Visayas (OWWA-8) from the agency’s office in Hong Kong.
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (Owwa) yesterday said its contingency plans were in place and it was ready to evacuate Filipinos in South Korea, if necessary.
