Many Filipino families have a knack for food production. Farming skills and practices of old family members are passed down to younger generations by default. Adele Eisma Woodward is a 54-year-old Filipina who adopted her family's love for farming. Adele Woodward is all smiles with her long...
Anakalusugan partylist Rep. Mike Defensor on Sunday renewed his call for the government to scrap the annual cap on the deployment of 7,000 on Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) as he said it is unconstitutional. Defensor said Filipinos should enjoy the right to live and work wherever "they can achieve...
Layout design by Pinggot Zulueta HOMEMAKER Filipino artist Proceso Gelladuga Where is home? For Hong Kong-based Filipino artist Proceso Gelladuga, home is the longing of his soul. “Home is where I was born. It is where my soul longs to go back someday, where I can speak my language, where the...
OFW Forum Jun Concepcion Ending the continuing physical and sexual abuses of Filipino women across the Middle East doesn’t require rocket science. Even in the absence of comprehensive empirical data, it is fairly easy to deduce and conclude what should have been clear as daylight to the...
By Antonio G. Papa, Ph.D. Jean Gonzales, a 49 year-old retired Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) has spent almost half her life working overseas. Because of the pandemic, she and her husband, a Chinese-Canadian national, decided to retire from their jobs in Hong Kong and settle in Indang,...
OFW Forum Jun Concepcion Governor Benjamin Diokno said last month that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas would conduct an investigation into complaints of dozens of Banco de Oro depositors who claimed to have lost varied sums in their savings accounts. BDO, the country’s largest universal bank, has...
In a move that will make the quarantine process less tedious for returning overseas Filipinos (ROF), the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) has allowed quarantine hotels to function, too, as isolation facilities for those who will test positive for the...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Understandably, advocates of the rights and welfare of overseas Filipino workers, notably Eli Mua in Saudi Arabia, cheered President Rodrigo Duterte’s signing on Dec. 29 of a new law that creates a new department exclusively for overseas Filipinos. They believe firmly...
OFW Forum President Duterte’s signing on Dec. 29 of a law that created the Department of Migrant Workers brought lots of joy and hope to advocates of the rights and welfare of overseas Filipino workers, notably Eli Mua in Saudi Arabia. Hope that after more than 50 years of deploying workers to...
OFW FORUM Nora M, 42, a single mother who hails from Negros Occidental, is now seriously considering returning home for good. She’s been away from home for 24 years while at work as a domestic helper in Hong Kong. The time seems ripe for her to quit her P30,000-a-month helper’s job and rejoin...
Three House of Representatives committees have recommended the passage of a bill that would establish a hospital that will exclusively cater to the medical care and needs of overseas Filipino workers and their dependents. Repatriated overseas Filipino workers House Bill 10629 or the proposed OFW...
OFW FORUM Much to his credit, Saudi Arabia-based Eli Mua is unrelenting and tireless in his single-minded crusade for the proposed Department of Overseas Filipino Workers (DOFW) to be established before President Rodrigo Duterte bows out of office in June next year. A Mindanaoan like Duterte, Mua...
