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OWWA Caraga opens 76 scholarship slots for OFW dependents

BUTUAN CITY, PIA – The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Regional Welfare Office -13 is now accepting applications for Overseas Filipino Workers Dependents Scholarship Program (OFWDSP) for the school year 2015-2016. OFWDSP is offered to legal dependents of active OFWs who receive monthly salaries of not more than $400 US. Overseas Workers Welfare Officer II and Scholarship Coordinator, Rodel Deligero said “76 scholarship slots are open this year for Caraganon OFW dependents. Of this number, 12 slots […]

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BSP extends LYD-CEF for repatriated OFWs

MANILA, PIA – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has approved the reopening of the Libyan Dinar Currency Exchange Facility (LYD-CEF) for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) repatriated from Libya for another six months, or until July 29, 2015. The approval came shortly after Labor Secretary Erlinda Baldoz sent a letter to Amando M. Tetangco, BSP Governor, requesting for the extension of the LYD-CEF, thus, giving life to BSP Circular 867, dated January 14, 2015, allowing […]

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OWWA to Fetch more than 800 OFWs from MALTA

MANILA, Aug. 16 (PNA) — The government’s ASSIST WELL TEAM spearheaded by Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz, along with OWWA Administrator Rebecca J. Calzado, will extend assistance to more than 800 OFW returnees from troubled-country Libya. “We will be at the airport literally for two consecutive days, Saturday night, and Sunday at dawn. This is because the intervals of the arrival of OFWs from the war-torn Libya is just within hours or so, and we would […]

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