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In
shortage of maritime officers, industry turns to image building
MANILA–GIVEN
the shortage of maritime officers for international vessels, the
manning industry is turning to re-package what its players say
is a “wimpy” image of the Filipino seafaring career.
Hence, manning agency executives like Edgardo U. Manese are reaching
out to the Philippine media so that, he says, the latter can help
“cleanse” the image of Filipino seafarers. WILLIAM
ALZONA reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium®.
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story
OFWs
needle profits for village squeezing noodles from squash
STO.
DOMINGO, ILOCOS SUR–SQUASH, for some Europeans, refers to
the sport. For farmers here, it’s the raw material gestating
a business partnership with overseas Filipino workers. As the year
ends, this town may squeeze profits from selling a novel product
from that raw material: canton-style noodles from squash–the
vegetable, not the sport. CANDICE Y. CEREZOreports
for the OFW Journalism Consortium®.
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story
Cooperative
whips OFW families in savings line
LOS
BANOS, LAGUNA –A TWO-STOREY town hall here is a reminder that
political will, when wield, gets results. For instance, whenever
fish traders like Clarita Quisel walk by the hall, she automatically
reaches for her pocket to rub coins and bills. Under a low-savings
rate regime, the town hall’s savings and loan association
is effective in “forcing” families of overseas Filipino
workers, like Quisel’s, to save. JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO
reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium®.
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story
OFWs
get less funding share in P1-B AIDS advocacy tack
MANILA-AS
the country’s incidence of overseas Filipino workers with
HIV is said to “be hidden but growing,” advocates are
now focusing on those in the migration stream. Still, they are getting
less than two percent from a P1-billion (nearly $24.4 million) funding
pouring into the advocacy to address the human immuno-deficiency
virus stalking the people in this stream. NIMFA BERNAL
reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium®. Full
story
How
to take care of your money?
Read
the stories of the OFW Journalism Consortium on financial literacy
for Filipinos abroad and their families back home. Click
here
2006
Special Newspacket on Financial Literacy in Overseas Filipinos
by the OFW Journalism Consortium cited in the newsletter Migrant
Remittances
(published by the United States Agency for International Development
[USAID]-Microenterprise Development Office and the United Kingdom
Department for International Development [DFID])
http://www.livelihoods.org/hot_topics/docs/Migrant%20Remittances_Oct06.pdf
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