A total of 1,987 livelihood starter kits were handed out by the
Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) through its regional offices to
distressed OFWs who returned to the country from January to December 2014
through the welfare agency’s Balik-Pinas, Balik-Hanapbuhay program.
Majority
of the distressed OFW-beneficiaries were females who worked as household service workers and caregivers. The
remaining number comprised skilled workers, mostly male, from countries
experiencing political and civil unrest such as Libya and Syria.
Most
of the recipients came from Region III, followed by Regions IV-A, X, V, CAR,
XI, NCR, XII, II, VI, VIII, and I.
The
livelihood starter kits that amounted to P19.72 million were to be used mostly
for food-related ventures in various modes. These are in trading (buy and sell,
rice and other foods and consumer goods, fish vending, mini-grocery, e-load, etc.),
agricultural production (crops, livestock & poultry), food service
(carinderia, kakanin), food processing (meats, foods, fruits, candies, etc.),
service (salon, spa, parlor, massage, cell phone repair, computer repair,
electrical repair) and manufacturing (bakery, dress making, tailoring, candle
making).
Balik-Pinas-Balik-Hanapbuhay
is a one-time-availment, non-cash, livelihood assistance given to returning
OFWs who were displaced from their jobs due to wars/political conflicts in
their host countries, or were maltreated, or victimized by human trafficking. (OWWA
RO1)
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