CFO sets migration awareness campaign in Capiz
ROXAS CITY – The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) will conduct a press briefing with the Capiz tri-media practitioners on Feb. 25 here as part of its yearly community education program on migration.
Aside from the media interaction, the inter-agency community education and information campaign will also include school symposia on migration, public assemblies, interaction with community members and distribution of information materials.
“The campaign seeks to assist prospective migrants in making informed decisions regarding settlement abroad,” said CFO Executive Director Jose Maria Palabrica.
It also aims to raise public awareness on various issues concerning migration, inter-marriage and existing government policies and policies directed against illegal recruitment, documentation fraud and human trafficking, among others.
The CFO was established on June 16, 1980 by virtue of Batas Pambansa Blg. 79 to give advice and assistance to the President and the Congress regarding legislations needed to promote the interest of the Filipino migrants abroad, to preserve the socio-economic and cultural ties of Filipinos abroad, and serves as liaison office that would bring the Filipinos abroad to their awareness of their roots as Filipinos especially those who are born and raised in other countries.
Other major initiatives of the CFO are the passage of the Law on Absentee-voting whereby the Filipino migrants are given the privilege of exercising their right to vote during national elections; and the Law on Dual Citizenship whereby a Filipino migrant may re-acquire Filipino citizenship while retaining their foreign citizenship. (PIA/A.Lumaque)
