OFWs' welfare programme returns to UAE on Nov.15-16

In a little over three months, a government-led comprehensive service to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) returns to the UAE this Nov.15 and Nov.16 (Saturday and Sunday).

- Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter

This is the “OFW Bagong Bayani ng Mundo-Serbisyo Caravan (OFW New Heroes of the World-Service Caravan),” spearheaded by the Philippines’ Department of Migrant Workers through the Migrant Workers Office-Dubai (MWO-Dubai).

Registrants may avail of a new facility from the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), the government-owned and controlled corporation set up in 1995 to manage the Filipinos’ universal health coverage, and first-time government agency participant, Land Bank of the Philippines (Land Bank) set up in 1963 focused on rural growth development.

The media received the advisory on Sunday evening from the Filipino Social Club (FilSoc) the apolitical, nonreligious umbrella organisation of all Filipino societies in Dubai and the Northern Emirates. FilSoc is recognised by the Philippine Government, through the One Philippines Team in the UAE, and the UAE Government through the Community Development Authority in Dubai.

To be held from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Hall 3 of the Dubai World Trade Centre, Filipinos across the seven emirates are encouraged to enlist over https://www.bit.ly/SerbisyoCaravan-Leg2