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Across borders, SMDC provides OFWs one place to come home to
Business World Philippines
|January 12, 2026
LIKE MANY OVERSEAS Filipinos, Hiyas Hosalla Nohra sent money regularly for rent, food, and tuition.
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But she also saw something many OFWs eventually realize: after years of sacrifice, too many still come home without a place they can truly call their own.
“I met so many hardworking Filipinos who worked abroad for decades, only to return and start over,” she shares. “They took care of everyone else—but not their future.”
That realization changed everything.
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