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Resident
Editor’s Note
by Dennis Estopace(editor@ofwjournalism.net
),
Resident Editor
CHOOSING
stories for the OFW Journalism Consortium is like having a sunny-side
fried egg for breakfast: scoop the yellow yolk or snip the white
layer first?
These are choices the diner mulls. If she has the time.
Time is a luxury that Consortium writers don’t have but
the editor does.
After
working on Move (our first magazine [also Vol. 7 Nos. 5-10 as
a newspacket) that came out in October 2008, it’s been a
long time, indeed since we came out with our stories.
The
Consortium, for the past six months, has been grappling with its
own future as its bank account resembles a fried egg, sunny-side
up.
Stories on overseas Filipino workers in a crisis-shackled world,
however, found oases in several news agencies and in OFWs themselves.
Some of the stories are in this latest newspacket.
Despite hard-to-go-by times, our stories remain free for reprint.
We only ask the Consortium is acknowledged as source.
It makes us shudder thinking we will grope inside the pockets
of readers, especially OFWs, who are already agog at how to balance
their checkbooks.
We can only hope they can continue to rely on the generosity of
strangers as much as of their countrymen to transform the drought
in jobs, income, and goodwill into a lush green field of a prosperous
future.
For you, the Consortium reader, we hope you can see the sunny-side
of our egg yolks: the stories we can serve in future breakfasts.
Gov’t
economist says Middle East guide to crisis’ impact on OFWs
PASIG CITY. Philippines—AS
the plane nosed down to its landing in Dubai, economist Josef Yap
sensed a portent of things to come for Filipino workers in the Middle
East and the labor export industry.
“These are the scenes of the Asian financial crisis of 1997,”
Yap recalled saying to himself and to three other Southeast Asian
economists during that visit in the financial capital of the United
Arab Emirates.
JEREMAIAH OPINIANO
and
ISAGANI DE LA PAZ report
for the OFW Journalism Consortium®.
Full
story
Teachers
say Asia grappling to balance migration, crisis-hit labor market
PASIG CITY, Philippines—PROFESSORS studying labor
migration in Asia said countries in the region will scuttle to protect
their economies but avoid edging out foreign workers as a global
financial collapse seeps into real sectors.
One of them is Dr. Yap Mui Teng of the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public
Policy under the National University of Singapore. JEREMAIAH
OPINIANO and
ISAGANI DE LA PAZ
report for the OFW Journalism Consortium®. Full
story
From
debt they can’t part
Overseas Filipino workers bear debts as crisis hits labor-importing
economies
MAKATI CITY, Philippines—RAMONES Caytiles’s
stint in Taiwan is as short as the song-length of his namesake American
punk rock band: two weeks.
But nearly six months now since he and 171 fellow workers got pink
slips last year from their employer Hanston Display Corp., Caytiles
feels life is as long as Don Maclean’s American Pie song.
JEREMAIAH
OPINIANO and
ISAGANI DE LA PAZ
report for the OFW Journalism Consortium®. Full
story
0.7-million
Pinoys in US belong to housing rescue plan tier
QUEZON CITY, Philippines—MORE than 0.7 million Filipinos
belong to the tier that the United States government plans to rescue
from a housing crisis, recent US census data bare.
The 2007 American Community Survey of the US Census Bureau cited
that 45.6 percent of an estimated 1.7 million Philippine-born US
residents cite 30 percent or more of their monthly income goes to
cost of ownership of a house, or mortgage.
ISAGANI DE LA PAZ
reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium®. Full
story
Steady
decline in Pinoy, Asians ordained as priests in the US
QUEZON CITY—FOR NEARLY a decade, the Catholic Church
in the United States has had steady supply of priests from Asia,
with the Philippines one of the oases in the Sahara-like career
of priesthood.
But the numbers have been decreasing, a survey commissioned by the
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) revealed.
ISAGANI DE LA PAZ
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
These articles are free, but to publish, broadcast, rewrite, or
redistribute this, please write or email the OFW Journalism Consortium
editor@ofwjournalism.net or ofwjournalism@gmail.com
for permission.
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