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BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
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ILOILO City – Around 100 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families from Iloilo province had undergone a family and income management training at Casa Real.
A nongovernment organization, Atikha Overseas Workers and Communities Initiatives, Inc. (Atikha), held the training under its Pinoy WISE Ladderized Program.
“The program aims to strengthen the economic security and livelihoods of OFWs, particularly those based in Singapore and Hong Kong, and their families who were left in the [Philippines],” said Atikha deputy executive director Aileen Constantino-Peñas.
The training held on Friday had the theme “Coming Home: Reintegration of Migrant Domestic Workers in the Philippines.”
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration Region 6, and the Public Employment Service Office of the capitol, among others, support the undertaking.
Iloilo was chosen for its “massive number of domestic workers in Hong Kong and Singapore” and being a “top source of seafarers,” Constantino-Peñas said.
Discussions during the training were on goal-setting, budgeting, saving, investing, borrowing, getting out of debt, and addressing family issues.
The training was Level 1. Level 2 includes reintegration planning and counseling for OFWs, and financial planning and psychosocial counseling for families. There are three more levels.
There are around 185,000 to 200,000 OFWs in the city and province Iloilo, Atikha area development coordinator Jose Felino P. Resol Jr. said, citing their 2016 records.
“Most of them are from the towns of Oton, Miag-ao and Pototan, while 25,000 to 30,000 are from Iloilo City,” he said, adding that their estimated remittances reach P12 billion per year./PN
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