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DOLE-Bicol launches one-stop center for OFWs
- Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=849084
- Thursday, January 21, 2016
- By Nancy Ibo Mediavillo [(PNA), ZST/FGS/NIM/CBD]
LEGAZPI CITY, Jan. 21 (PNA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment Regional Office-5 (DOLE-5) on Thursday formally launched the Bicol OFW Assist Well Processing Center (B-OFW-AWPC) at its office here.
DOLE Bicol Regional Director Nathaniel Lacambra led the occasion.
Also present were Regional Director Conrado Bares of Technical Education and Skills Development Authority- Bicol; Yco Tan Sr., co-chair of the National Economic and Development Authority Committee on Migration and Development; Rev. Fr. Paul Ocfemia of the Diocese of Legazpi, who solemnized the ceremonies, OFWs and media practitioners.
Lacambra said the occasion coincides with the activities being held in other regional offices of the DOLE nationwide in connection with the OFW Reintegration Program of the department.
Kristina B. Oliveros, DOLE regional reintegration officer under the National Reintegration Center for OFWs, said the DOLE launched the program as a one-stop center to assist the OFWs and their families in matters of employment, livelihood, legal assistance, counseling and other needs.
Oliveros encouraged OFWs who have returned to the region and their families to come to their office and show documents to validate their being OFW like travel documents, passport and employment records to avail of the services.
Some of the services being given by the center are livelihood training, like on meat processing, as well as financial awareness seminar and small business management training.
Oliveros said the center will be the one to coordinate with other government agencies and other sectors of the society in addressing the needs of the OFWs and their families.
Tan, on the other hand, said his office helps OFWs and their families.
He said they are now preparing the records or profiles of OFWs in the region as all provinces, cities, towns and barangays have OFWs.
The NEDA official said he is doing this as he was also once an OFW.
He lamented the report that there is one barangay in the region wherein 50 percent of the families of OFWs are dysfunctional, meaning, troubled and with problems.
Tan said this is the negative effect of working abroad or the social cost of migration.
He said it is the objective of his office, with the help of other government agencies and sectors of the society, to strengthen the families of the OFWs since no amount of money can equal a happy and united family.