The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has reported a total of 946 new confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases and 35 new deaths in connection with the dreaded disease among overseas Filipinos during the past week. Department of Foreign Affairs Amid the increasing number of new COVID-19...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion When extremist Taliban forces took control of the Afghanistan capital city of Kabul on August 15, over 100 Filipinos were trapped in the war-torn country. Since most of them worked for American and British military contractors, deemed by the Taliban as among their worst...
A migration consultant said that most of the 80 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Kabul have left Afghanistan and are now safe in different countries waiting for repatriation by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Scene at the Kabul airport on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to...
A 32-year-old overseas Filipino worker in Dubai was named one of the Top 100 healthcare leaders in the emirate. Dan Lester Dabon, chief executive officer and founder of DLD Healthcare Consulting Service, was conferred with the Top 100 Healthcare Leaders Award by the International Forum on...
An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in Kabul, Afghanistan said it has been difficult to move from evacuation centers to the international airport to escape Afghanistan since Taliban fighters are scattered in “almost all roads” and blocking passage. Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at...
OFW Forum Jun Concepcion Most of the nearly million overseas Filipinos who have gone home after losing their jobs abroad due to COVID-19 are in bad shape financially and need meaningful and sustainable aid from government, not simply dole outs. What they need most are practical and accessible aid...
A bill seeking to mandate the issuance of an electronic vaccine cards to all fully vaccinated Filipinos has been filed in the House of Representatives. As the capital enters into a two-week enhanced community quarantine, people line up at a vaccination site located at Justo Lukban elementary school...
Here's some good news for Filipinos who are eyeing employment in the American territory of Guam. Tumon Bay, Guam (Photo by Huang Junsheng/ Unsplash) Labor Attaché in Los Angeles, Armi Evangel Peña bared on Friday, Aug. 13 that the prospects for employment in Guam will be bright for overseas...
Senator Joel Villanueva has called on the government to step up its efforts in assisting displaced overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and give them jobs that match their skills. (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) “Giving them P20,000 each simply would not cut it anymore,” said Villanueva,...
A group of former overseas Filipino workers (OFW) have banded together to launch a feeding mission in two barangays in Pasay City. (Ariel Fernandez/ MANILA BULLETIN) Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Board of Trustee Doc Chie Umandap, chairman of AKO OFW Inc., said the program was made...
Senator Joel Villanueva has assured that the proposed Department of Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos (DMWOF) will push for job creation in the Philippines that going abroad to work "will just be a choice" to Filipinos. Senator Joel Villanueva speaks during a Senate hearing on February 24,...
OFW Forum Jun Concepcion As a tight lockdown or ECQ looms in Metro Manila from August 6, how will the national government feed its 14 million plus residents? Presented by the media with this blunt question last week, Budget Secretary Wendel Avisado and presidential spokesman Harry Roque were both...
