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OWWA 6 celebrates Migrant Workers Day
- Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=892743
- Tuesday, June 7, 2016
- (PNA), PGL/CBFERRER/CBF
ILOILO CITY, June 7 (PNA) -- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) in Western Visayas joined the country in celebrating the 2016 Migrant Workers Day to give honor and recognition to the sacrifices of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), Tuesday.
OWWA’s record disclosed of around 170,000 OFWs in Western Visayas with about 80,000 coming from Iloilo.
As a prelude, the migrant workers office held provincial consultation workshops last week. The outputs from various provinces were consolidated to come up with a regional output, which in turn will be submitted to the national summit in the coming months.
One of the workshop participants, Elias Ledesma, is currently the President of St. Joseph Movement of Migrants and their Families in Pototan, Iloilo with around 300 members. He worked for 22 years in Saudi Arabia.
He said that they are closely coordinating with OWWA because their organization is concerned with the families of OFWs who are left in the Philippines.
“Through our coordination with OWWA, we were able to provide livelihood programs and conducted series of computer literacy trainings,” he said.
Financial literacy training was also initiated, where OFW members and their families were taught how to save their money and how to use the remittances from abroad.
A financial literacy leadership and entrepreneurship training is held twice a month for six months this year by the Ateneo School of Government.
OWWA regional director Ron Lionel Bartolome said that the Migrant Workers Day is in consonance with RA 8482 that gives recognition and appreciation to the OFWs and their contribution in the country and also to honor the sacrifices of their families who are left in the country.
Bartolome said that RA 10801, otherwise known as OWWA Act of 2016 that was signed by President Benigno Aquino III two weeks ago is expected to boost and strengthen the capacity of OWWA to deliver more welfare programs and services, including social protection benefits to OFWs.