OFWs families get financial help from Capitol
LINGAYEN—In a gesture to acknowledge the contributions of the province’s OFWs to the province’s development, the provincial government extended financial assistance to newly-registered associations of overseas Filipino workers’ (OFW) families last week.
Gov. Amado Espino Jr. distributed P10,000 to each association as start-up fund assistance for their respective livelihood ventures through the Provincial Employment and Services Office (PESO).
The families have been assured of continued free use of the provincial government’s communication system to connect with their respective OFW relatives.
“We are trying to organize the OFW families so that they could communicate with us should they have problems involving a member of the family working overseas or a returnee in the province,” Espino said.
PESO chief Alex Ferrer also assured the organizations of all the needed technical or marketing assistance they would require.
The Pangasinan OFW Family Associations that have already registered with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) are the chapters in Alaminos City, Infanta, Mangaldan, Rosales, San Jacinto, San Quintin, Sual, and Umingan.
There are 39 more town chapters expected to get their start-up fund assistance once these are registered with the DOLE.
Ferrer said towns that have completed the “Bantay-Barangay, Tulong Hanapbuhay” mapping project will also have the opportunity to avail of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas-Provincial Credit Surety Fund which provides livelihood assistance to group projects in the community.
The credit surety fund gives the associations the opportunity to avail of loans worth as much as ten times of their capital without any collateral.
“Bantay-Barangay, Tulong Hanapbuhay” is a strategic, comprehensive and innovative anti-illegal recruitment, human trafficking and poverty alleviation program of the province which aims to train OFWs and their families to look after their communities against intrusion of illegal recruiters and human traffickers in their barangays.- (Johanne R. Macob/PNA/PIO)
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