OFWs get aid from OWWA, DOLE 12

KORONADAL CITY- Seventy five repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) from various parts of region 12 have benefited from the Balik Pinas, Balik Hanabuhay Program.” The project aims to provide livelihood starter kits for self employment of distressed OFWs. This is implemented by the National Reintegration Center for OFW (NRCO) of Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). Jeanet Enolpe, NRCO coordinator in Region 12, said the livelihood starter kits were awarded to the beneficiaries in Koronadal City Thursday, upon completion of livelihood training from the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) To ensure its success, beneficiaries of the program underwent training on 'Tocino' and 'Imbutido' making,” Enolpe told DXOM FM Koronadal Friday. Among those who were given P10,000 worth of livelihood starter kits through cash vouchers were OFWs who were victims of human trafficking, maltreatment and those who were affected by wars and other forms of abuse. Enolpe appealed to their beneficiaries not to waste the assistance and take good care of it so it will grow. DOLE will not stop its services, what were asking from the beneficiaries of our program is to take good care of the resources of the government and make it grow in order to uplift their economic status and help their family,” Enolpe said. One of the recipients of the livelihood starter kits was Habiba Ulangkaya of Pikit North Cotabato who worked as domestic help in Kuwait but received a salary much lower than what has been promised her. That mader hereligible for the program. With the assistance that we received, we will be able to send our children to school, we promised to do our best to make it grow for the welfare of our family,” she said.