DTI sets up OFWs Assistance Desk in Zamboanga City

• Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=920633
• Tuesday, September 6, 2016

(PNA), LAP/TPGJR

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Sept. 6 (PNA) –- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has set up an assistance desk for returning Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) affected by the economic crisis in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere abroad.

Eng’r. Rolando Acuña, DTI provincial director, on Tuesday said the establishment of the assistance desk is in response to the directive of President Rodrigo Duterte to give immediate economic and livelihood aid to displaced OFWs.

In this city, Acuña said the OFW Assistance Desk is located at the DTI’s Negosyo Center along Veteran Avenue.

The Assistance Desk was established during a consultative meeting with DTI partner-agencies and OFWs.

The Assistance Desk will lend a hand to returning OFWs who wish to start their own enterprise by providing the following services and assistance, to wit: business consultancy, skills and product development, as well as financial facilitation.

Acuña said the Assistance Desk shall also serve as a referral desk where OFW concerns can be coursed to the proper agency.

He said it is open and accessible to all OFWs who wish to set up their own enterprise although the Assistance Desk was created to specifically aid laid-off OFWs.

He encouraged OFWs to avail of all of the free trainings and seminars that will be conducted by the Negosyo Center.

“Our OFW returnees will have full access to all the services of the Negosyo Center. As our modern-day heroes, the least we could do for them is to help them start a new life in our country,” Acuña said.