Some 300 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were sent home by the government on Thursday, June 18, as part of its vow to speed up the repatriation of migrant workers to their home provinces within five days.
Government officials, led by Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestre Bello, held a send-off ceremony for the OFWs at the Paranaque Integrated Exchange on Thursday afternoon.
“We know that you are already missing your spouses, your families, so we will not prolong your stay here,” he told the OFWs in Pilipino. One OFW from Dubai said he arrived last June 15 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport and their samples were immediately taken.
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