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Failures
in gov’t lending project for OFWs cited
QUEZON
CITY—THE bankruptcy of roughly 200 government-funded livelihood
groups of overseas Filipino workers and their families reveals
major errors in a project that an OFW leader and a government
report said was used solely for the 2004 elections. A micro-lending
project for OFWs –called OFW Groceria–is hobbled by
the inability of beneficiaries who were former overseas workers
to pay back the grocery products for re-sale loaned to them by
government. CANDICE Y. CEREZO reports for the
OFW Journalism Consortium. Full
story
Stranded
Pinoys in Lebanon still traded
QUEZON
CITY—FILIPINO workers, mostly women, in Lebanon are still
being traded for new employees after getting sidetracked from work
when fighting broke out in September, advocates said. Echoing the
report of Catholic congregation Daughters of Charity Sister Amelia
Asiedu-Torres, nonprofit Kanlungan Centre Foundation Inc. said migrant
workers unable to flee during the shooting war between Israeli and
Hizbollah fighters are being sold to other employers. ISAGANI
DE LA PAZ reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium. Full
story
OWWA
exec says religious ties can’t protect women
MANILA—A LINE in the International Declaration
of Human Rights wasn’t able to protect her from a rapist,
nor could the teachings of the Qu’ran: Adela is as Muslim
as the Arab employer who she said repeatedly raped her until she
got pregnant. Such is the sad twist of reality at the xx year of
the commemoration of a document guaranteeing equal protection of
rights of peoples, whether they are of the same or different faith
or of gender. Likewise, the case of Adela (not her real name) slings
mud on the international commemoration of Migrant Workers’
Day December 18: there are still many others –at least more
than half of a million Filipinos leaving the country every year
are women– needing state protection. PATRICIA MARCELO
and ISAGANI DE LA PAZ report for the OFW Journalism
Consortium. Full
story
Firms
tap signing-frenzy OFWs for biz expansion
MANILA—Center for Pop Music Philippines Inc. and Intellectual
Property Ventures Group (IPVG) tack to tap the OFW market come at
a time when the Philippine music industry’s top revenue earners
are only a few while others are still either catching the next flight
to stardom or going to other countries as solo or band entertainers.
But whether or not the plans of Center for Pop and IPVG–the
firms are eyeing other countries–push through, they admit
the OFW remains a good market. WILLIAM ALZONA and
ISAGANI DE LA PAZ report for the OFW Journalism
Consortium. Full story
SIDEBAR
Paroled Pinoy’s past, present polish Parol parade
SAN
FRANCISCO, USA— WHEN it comes to issues of trafficking in
women, University of California-Davis professor Rhacel Parreñas
should be taken seriously: she has been in the eddy of Japan’s
entertainment industry. JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO explains
why Parreñas is serious in this report for the OFW Journalism
Consortium and the University of San Francisco-Center for the Pacific
Rim’s Yuchengco Media Fellows program. Full
story
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