Marcos greets 343 returnees from Middle East

MANILA, Philippines —  President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday personally welcomed 343 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their relatives who arrived from the Middle East via the government’s fourth chartered flight.

The aircraft landed at the Villamor Airbase in Pasay City from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia past 6 a.m.

The returning Filipinos were from Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, according to Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac.

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“There will be financial assistance as starter and then there are reintegration program services such as livelihood, capital, employment facilitation,” he said in a brief media interview.

“There will be a fifth and sixth chartered flight succession out of the UAE. And this effort is ongoing,” he also said. /dl