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Analysts
cite OWWA fetters in protecting OFWs
MANILA
(OFW Journalism Consortium)—TWO Filipino-American analysts
cited imbalanced services and weak state capacity as some of the
factors fettering the Philippine government’s welfare fund
in protecting the country’s economic heroes. ISAGANI
DE LA PAZ reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium®.
Full
story
State
insurance no security blanket for OFWs
MANILA (OFW
Journalism Consortium)—DESPITE increasing risks in host countries
and disasters in the Philippines, Filipinos abroad still feel safer
that remittances stay in their pockets rather than put these in
health and non-life insurance, a social security specialist bared
in his report on social protection. JEREMAIAH
M. OPINIANOreports
for the OFW Journalism Consortium®.
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story
‘Low
and slow’ count of OFWs with HIV in millennium dev’t
goal range, execs says
MANILA
(OFW Journalism Consortium)—THE rising number of overseas
Filipino workers with the human immunodeficiency virus hasn’t
rattled government and UN executives who assert the country will
still meet one of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs).
The HIV incidence among returning OFWs, and among the general Filipino
populace, is “low and slow,” Dr. Roderick Poblete of
the United Nations Population Fund said. JOYCE ANNE B. ROBINO
reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium®.
Full
story
Rising
number of young Pinays marrying elderly Asians triggers alarm
QUEZON
CITY (OFW Journalism Consortium)–TWENTY-year-old Rita pointed
to the words stretched on her tight-fitting mid-rib t-shirt as the
reason she’s marrying 66-year-old Endo: “Sweet Love,”
it says on her chest. “Love? Who is she kidding?” whispered
one of the women at the seminar on inter-racial marriages sponsored
by a Catholic group where Rita, a former garments factory worker,
spoke. JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO reports for the OFW
Journalism Consortium®. Full
story
Money
source from Pinoys in four Middle East countries growing
MANILA
(OFW Journalism Consortium)—DESPITE decreasing wage levels,
ban on deployment, and nationalization of labor markets, four Middle
East destination countries of Filipino temporary contract workers
posted the biggest year-on-year increases of remittances, based
on data by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas from 190 countries and
territories. JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO reports for
the OFW Journalism Consortium®. Full
story
US,
Japan, Norway top remittance points of Pinoy seafarers
MANILA
(OFW Journalism Consortium)—DATA per country from the Bangko
Sentral ng Pilipinas showed that the United States, Japan, and Norway
are the top three remittance points for Filipino seafarers and the
manning agencies that remit 80 percent of seafarers’ salaries
to Filipino families. JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO 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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