OWWA helps stranded OFWs in Metro Manila

The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) will help 4,000 to 5,000 stranded Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) to return to their respective provinces.

The OFWs are stranded in Metro Manila due to the Enhanced Community Quarantine.

According to OWWA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac, the OWWA has coordinated with the Department of Transportation (DoTr) and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to provide transportation to the OFWs going to their provinces.

OWWA has continuously distributed food to the stranded OFWs, who are mostly seafarers.

The agency has helped 6,000 OFWs from the start of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak.

Popular

PBBM hails timely completion of 2 new school buildings in QC

By Dean Aubrey Caratiquet “I am very, very happy to see that the students are already using it.” After a major fire gutted an old building...

DEPDev pushes for stronger gov’t-industry tie-ups to boost labor market resilience

By Brian Campued The Department of Economy, Planning, and Development (DEPDev) on Tuesday called for stronger collaboration between government and industry to equip workers with...

‘Hayo, Hinay, Hinga, Hinto’: DepEd issues emergency learning continuity guidelines

By Brian Campued Recognizing that natural disasters, environmental hazards, and human-induced incidents continue to threaten learning continuity, the Department of Education (DepEd) has issued new...

PhilHealth boosts healthcare services in DepEd schools ahead of class opening

By Brian Campued As the Department of Education (DepEd) intensifies preparations ahead of the opening of the School Year 2026–2027 on June 8 through the...