Amid expected global headwinds in 2023, the newly-created Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) is “ready to serve overseas Filipino workers [OFW],” Migrant Workers Secretary Maria Susana “Toots” V. Ople said over the weekend. Know more:
At the same time, Ople thanked Marcos and Congress “for giving the DMW its first full year budget in 2023, allowing the department to create 16 new regional offices and four Migrant Workers Offices [MWO], formerly known as Philippine Overseas Labor Offices, or POLOs.” This, she projects, would bring DMW services directly to OFWs and their families.
Ople said that also present at the Palace event were some 200 children of OFWs, their parents and guardians, noting that among those who participated were Education and Livelihood Assistance Program scholars Gabriel Cedrik de Vera Caburnay, John Robison Navas, and Shaira Mae Concepcion. ELAP scholars are children or dependents of deceased OFWs who were OWWA members.
She noted that Caburnay is a second-year college student taking up Bachelor of Marine Transportation studies at the Philippine Maritime Institute Colleges , while Navas is a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering student at the Jose Rizal University. Concepcion is on her sophomore year as a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management student at the National University.
At the same event, Ople added, the President, First Lady Liza Marcos and the members of the First Family also received original artworks from OFW children Casey Carleyte Pigos, Shaikha Eliana Vasquez, and Joan Abigail Gratuito. Pigos, a 16-year-old Grade 11 student, presented her work entitled “Serenity” that touches on the physical distance that separates OFW children from their parents. The nine-year old Vasquez, meanwhile, created “Mother and Daughter with Balloon” as a tribute to her OFW parent, while Gratuito, 20, titled her work “Lovebirds” to compare OFWs to a bird foraging for food to nourish their young.
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