Showing posts with label OFW. Show all posts
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Sep 10, 2013

OFWs to stage ‘Zero Remittance Day’ stir

MANILA As many as 10 million overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are to join the planned ‘Zero Remittance Day’ to dramatise their protest against the alleged misuse of $250 million allocated to lawmakers to help improve the lives of poor Filipinos particularly those living in the countryside, according to organisers. Eman Villanueva, the secretary-general of the United Filipinos in Hong Kong-Migrante, reported that OFW groups based in the Middle East, Europe, North America and other neighbouring countries in Asia have expressed support for the...