Western Visayas records 30T OFWs
Roxas City -- About 30 thousand Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) have been recorded by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) regional office as working in various countries worldwide.
This was revealed by OWWA Regional Director Robert Bassig during a media briefing here initiated by the Commission on Filipino Overseas (CFO) in collaboration with the Department of Foreign Affairs, OWWA, and Capiz provincial government.
"Majority are seafarers," said Bassig, elaborating the statistics as well as its programs and services for the benefit of OFWs.
Presently, the government's crisis officials are in the thick of the action to get beleaguered Filipinos out safely in Lebanon and many OFWs have already been seen streaming home to the embrace of their families in the Philippines.
The President has ordered the pull out of all Filipinos from Lebanon amidst the continuing Israeli air and ground attacks which resulted in the earlier exodus of other nationals living in the war-torn country.
Meanwhile, the Charter Change Advocacy Commission (AdCom), which has been leading an extensive information campaign to raise awareness, believes that the government's super region blueprint will consequently generate jobs and end migration that would eventually keep the workforce from seeking jobs abroad.
AdCom member Alex Aguilar argued that "if all these projects get their proper funding and executed properly in the next four or five years, it will significantly diminish-if not help totally eradicate-the unemployment problems of the country.
"But all these must be complemented with wholesale reforms in the Constitution, especially the lifting of the restrictive economic provisions," said AdCom Chairman Lito Monico Lorenzana.
"AdCom is advocating a package of reforms that are interrelated to each of the proposed amendments-and these reforms are not mere philosophies, these are tested reforms and concepts that have been adopted by most advanced and developing nations," Lorenzana said.
(PIA/A. Lumaque )