MANILA, Philippines — Nineteen more overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia have returned to the country, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) announced late on Monday.
DMW: 19 distressed OFWs return home from Jeddah
In a statement on their Facebook page, the DMW said 12 were staying in the Bahay Kalinga shelters, who experienced “unfortunate situations on their overseas employment” and requested assistance from the agency to return home.
DMW Assistant Secretary Maria Regina Galias and DMW-NCR Regional Director Falconi Millar, along with other teams from the DMW and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), met with the repatriates and provided them with immediate assistance and whole-of-government support.
The Filipinos, who arrived home through Saudia Flight SV 870 at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1, also received financial and transportation assistance from the DMW and OWWA, as well as medical assistance from the airport’s medical staff., This news data comes from:http://pjni.771bg.com
DMW: 19 distressed OFWs return home from Jeddah
- China's Communist rulers push party role before World War II anniversary
- SpaceX scrubs latest Starship launch due to bad weather
- Fears of new political crisis grip France
- Pagasa monitors LPA off Cavite, may still become tropical depression
- Israeli strikes in Yemen's capital kill six, Houthis say
- P270M rock shed useless – Marcos
- MMDA prepares for PH hosting of FIVB
- Lacson to Marcoleta: I don’t want a fight but I won’t back down from one
- Preliminary report on Lisbon funicular accident expected
- In Taiwan, competing narratives over the meaning of China's massive military show
