SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, July 29 (PIA) -- A bonafide Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) and member of the Overseas Workers Welfare and Administration can avail of the reintegration loan assistance under the P2-billion OFW-Reintegration Program to help them set up for alternative employment or business undertaking upon their return to the country.
The reintegration program is jointly implemented by the Department of Labor and Employment, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), National Integration Center for OFWs, Land Bank of the Philippines, and the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP).
The program provides returning OFWs with the following services: counseling on saving and financial management to help them manage and protract their earnings abroad; skills training, re-tooling, and upgrading to promote their employability and competitiveness; employment facilitation to help them search jobs locally or overseas and livelihood and enterprise development assistance for OFWs who want to establish business.
OFWs who contributed $25 or P1,083.98 to OWWA upon processing their employment contract at the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration and who voluntarily registered and paid the OWWA membership contribution at the Philippine Overseas Labor Office at their job sites overseas are qualified to the reintegration loan assistance.
It can be recalled that the P2 billion reintegration program was launched during Migrant Workers Day June 7 by President Aquino. (ANL/EMR-OWWA/PIA 1 La Union)