MANILA, Philippines — Nineteen more overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia have returned to the country, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) announced late on Monday.
DMW: 19 distressed OFWs return home from Jeddah
In a statement on their Facebook page, the DMW said 12 were staying in the Bahay Kalinga shelters, who experienced “unfortunate situations on their overseas employment” and requested assistance from the agency to return home.
DMW: 19 distressed OFWs return home from Jeddah, This news data comes from:http://jwbhkqp.yamato-syokunin.com
DMW Assistant Secretary Maria Regina Galias and DMW-NCR Regional Director Falconi Millar, along with other teams from the DMW and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), met with the repatriates and provided them with immediate assistance and whole-of-government support.
The Filipinos, who arrived home through Saudia Flight SV 870 at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1, also received financial and transportation assistance from the DMW and OWWA, as well as medical assistance from the airport’s medical staff.
- Lacson: House can't return proposed 2026 budget to Palace
- Navotas inks deal for school feeding project
- Woman accused of murdering her children faces New Zealand trial
- Trump wants to meet Norea Korea's Kim again
- Marcos to youth: Help in nation-building
- China displays its weaponry in a tightly controlled military parade
- Modi and Putin affirm special relationship as India faces steep US tariffs over Russian oil imports
- Famed streetcar in Lisbon, Portugal, derails and crashes, killing 15 people
- Angkas supports DICT's amnesty program for unregistered delivery services
- Surfacing of WPS features ‘likely’ natural occurrence, not due to dumped crushed corals
