Poverty Drives Pinoy To Become OFW
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) are Philippines’ unsung heroes, no doubt about that. They earn a living, send money to their families, in short they contributed to our economy. Some of them are financially stable but working away from home is indeed a sacrifice for the sake of their loved ones.
How come there are more OFW now compared before? During my high school years, there was 2-3 of my classmates had a father that was a seaman or working in Saudia Arabia. I guess, we don’t use the term OFW back then. When did OFW statistics started increasing? Is there such thing as OFW history?
What drives OFW to leave Philippines? POVERTY. They leave because there are limited opportunities in our country. The present financial crisis in US, there are many Filipinos affected in US, some got unemployed. How about the stranded OFW in Dubai? Recently, it was featured in TV Patrol. They will rather gamble than come back home. Last night, I saw Vice President Noli de Castro on TV giving advise to OFW to go home than get stranded.
The odd thing is… according to the government, Philippines is not affected of US financial crisis. I see… smell… hear… more and more signs of poverty each day. In my opinion, Philippines is long been in crisis for years. If we’re not, no Filipinos will choose to work abroad.
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Same happens in my country, we’re still ‘exporting’ workers overseas.
But I think OFW are more taken care compares to Overseas Indonesian Workers, so there have been sad and even tragic stories happened to them while working abroad
Really? But OFW are not protected in a way. Recently, a pinoy was beheaded in Saudi Arabia. Many pinoy were stranded, they leave their employers for maltreatment, delayed salaries, others died.
Many wants to work overseas because there is a notion that it is the only way they can earn and save decent money. Anyway, OFWs do enjoy and are entitled to a lot of benefits from the government, most though are just unaware of it.
[...] family may have the option to choose their occupation, but to alleviate their current status, most resolve to working abroad as OFWs. A family is dictated by societal norms, and thus, a father has to be the breadwinner, the mother [...]
[...] family may have the option to choose their occupation, but to alleviate their current status, most resolve to working abroad as OFWs. A family is dictated by societal norms, and thus, a father has to be the breadwinner, the mother [...]