SAN JACINTO, Pangasinan (PNA) – The family of Marjorette Garcia, the Filipino worker killed by her co-employee in Saudi Arabia, received various benefits and cash grants from national government agencies and the provincial government on Saturday, October 14.
Department of Migrant Workers officer-in-charge Hans Leo Cacdac and Overseas Workers Welfare Administration chief Arnell Ignacio visited the overseas Filipino worker’s wake at her residence in Barangay Awai here to hand livelihood assistance to the family and scholarship grants for the children.OWWA-Ilocos Director Gerardo Rimorin said in a press conference that the family will also receive P200,000 death benefit and P20,000 burial benefit.
Ignacio said the agency will be in constant coordination with the family to further assist in any of their needs that the agency could still provide.A Kenyan co-worker, reportedly jealous over their employers’ preferential treatment on the 32-year-old Garcia, stabbed her on September 16, according to the initial report of the Saudi police."There is enough basis to file charges against the suspect. The case is now awaiting first hearing.
Garcia’s mother said it was her daughter's first time to work abroad. She had just extended her contract, which was to end by October after three years, when the stabbing happened. "Marjorette's case is a sad reminder of the risks OFWs take when they work abroad in hope of giving a bright future for their family here, especially their children," Ignacio said.
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