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Friday, January 20, 2012

The Faces of OFWs' (Iba't Ibang Mukha ng mga OFWs) ABS-CBN Patrol ng Pilipino, 10 January 2012



Featured in this documentary is Jebee Kenji Solis, the founding chair of the Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards. Hosted by Jing Castaneda and Jeff Canoy, watch the contrasting stories of the OFWs around the world.





PATROL NG PILIPINO
10 January 2012


PRESS RELEASE: ‘The Faces of OFWs’

Maraming mga Pilipino ang naghahangad makapagtrabaho sa ibang bansa para sa mas malaking sweldo at magandang oportunidad pero hindi lahat ng nakakaalis ay nagtatagumpay.

Abangan sa Martes ang Patrol ng Pilipino kung saan bibigyan ng mukha ang mataas na bilang ng mga Overseas Filipino Workers. Si Laarni Passion or ‘Ate Leny’ ay nagtrabaho ng siyam na buwan sa Jeddah bilang kasambahay. Ngayong nagdaang Pasko masuwerte siyang nakauwi sa kanyang pamilya. Pagkalipas ng Pasko, minarapat ng kaniyang pamilya na huwag na siyang bumalik pa sa Jeddah. Hindi man kataasan ang sasahurin dito sa Pilipinas mas pinili nilang mapunan ang pangungulila sa isa’t isa.

Kung si Ate Leny ay mag- isa sa ibang bansa iba naman ang sitwasyon ng pamilya ni Kenji Solis. Ang mga Solis ay magkakasama sa Saudi Arabia . Si Kenji, ang padre de pamilya kasama ang katuwang na si Sheila ay sa Saudi nakatira at nagtatrabaho kasama ang 2 supling  Umuwi rin sila sa Pilipinas para sa kapaskuhan. Nais nilang maranasan ni Sophia, 4 na taong gulang na anak, ang pasko sa Pilipinas. Hindi masidlan ang tuwa ng bata dahil sa unang pagkakataon naranasan ng bata ang selebrasyon ng kapaskuhan. Sa Saudi Arabia kasi pinagbabawal ang selebrasyon ng pasko. Pinagkakasya na lamang nila ang kapaskukan sa pagbati sa kababayan tuwing may makakasalubong sa mga kalye ng Saudi.

Ang pagtatrabaho sa dayuhang bansa ay isang sugal. Minsan suwerte pero minsan buhay mismo ang nakataya. Kagaya na lang ni Jonard Langamin, 28 taong gulang, anak ni Nanay Edith, nakakulong sa Saudi.  Limang taon nang nasa piitan si Jonard nang aksidenteng masaksak ang kapwa Pilipino sa barko. Napatawad na ng pamilya ng nasaksak si Jonard pero kailangan pa rin niyang kumalap ng 5 milyong piso para mapalaya. Limang milyong piso sa loob ng limang taon pero kulang pa rin ang panahon para makalap ito kaya 4 na buwan na lang bibitayin na siya kapag hindi nila nabigay ng buo ng 5 milyon.



Ang mga OFWs puno man ng luha ng pangungulila lahat ay buong buo ang pag- asa na papalarin sa ibang bansa.  Ang iba nakakamit ang ninanais, ang iba naman minamalas. Pero kahit ano pa man ang kanilang sinasapit sa ibang bansa, lahat ang dahilan ay pagmamahal sa pamilya; mga OFWs na handang magsakripisyo mabigyan lang ng magandang buhay ang kanilang mahal sa buhay.

Tunghayan ang iba’t ibang mukha ng mga OFWs na ilalahad sa ulat ni Jeff Canoy sa Patrol ng Pilipino. Martes ng gabi 9:15pm sa DZMM Teleradyo at pagkatapos ng Bandila sa ABS CBN Channel 2.






©2011 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

Saturday, June 25, 2011

What is Your Company Color and Status?




There are 4 certain categories and colors in the Nitaqat system - Excellent, Green, Yellow and Red. As per the data shown below, you can find out your company status depending on the number of total employees and the number of Saudi's your company employ.


Image courtesy of the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Labor




 VIEW or DOWNLOAD THE PDF HERE

ENLARGE THE IMAGES BELOW as per company categorization.






The data below was from the Saudi Ministry of Labor and using Google Chrome and Google Translate, PEBA was able to come up with this table.




©2011 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

Friday, September 10, 2010

Official Statement of the Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards (PEBA) on the Proposed Cuts on DFA and OFW Legal Assistance Fund


We stand as an alliance of Filipino Expats and OFWs whose primary advocacy is to promote the welfare and safeguard the rights of our fellow Filipino workers abroad through blogs, we would like to call for the President Benigno S. Aquino and the members of the Philippine Congress to reconsider the proposed cut on the Legal Assistance Fund of the Department of Foreign Affairs’ budget.

This act is dangerous to the already deplorable conditions of many OFWs who are incarcerated in various countries needing legal assistance.  The legal complexities of those who have been abused, ill-treated and became victims of unfair labor practice are costly and a lengthy fight.

The proposed cut would undermine the ability of our Consulate Offices to file legal actions that would protect thousands of Filipinos abroad working for their families to survive the poverty-stricken living condition of our fellow “kababayans” in the Philippines.  

How unfortunate that this is what we get for being the “modern day heroes.”  No country would treat their heroes this way; it is insane to reducelegal assistance fund to a meager 27 million a year.  The lack of funds as a reason for letting piteous Pinoy OFWs die in other countries brought by inability to legally defend their case would be tragic, senseless and an insensitive display of our government’s agenda on OFWs and other migrant workers.

Please, please!  We seek for your forthright defense of our already underprivileged sector whose only intention is to let their families live a good life, send their children or siblings to school, save the Philippine economy and let our nation become great again.  As Filipino Expatriates and OFWs, we provide our nation with new hope, we let the world see our eminence in various field, we make each of us proud to become Filipino and yet, the government has been less and less appreciative of our contribution by decreasing our means to be protected from legal scuffles. 

As united bloggers in different parts of the world, we will continue to knock, beat our drums and reach every home with Internet to let the world know that this is not fair, that this is an injustice to our welfare and would send our many fellow Filipinos working abroad into the mud of legal demise.

We hope that this plead will not fall on deaf ears, we are in a new era of governance, our new administration have relentlessly brandished renewal as their guiding thrust,  prove to us that you care for the OFWs by scrapping the proposed cut from DFA’s Legal Assistance Fund.

Pinoy Expats OFW Blog Awards (PEBA) www.pinoyblogawards.com
PEBA-OFW Alliance Action Group
Kablogs (Gateway of OFW Bloggers) www.ofwkablogs.com

For more information on this statement, please contact:
PEBA, Inc.
Felix Jigs G. Segre, Program Director, Head of PR & Media Affairs
Tel. Nos.: +63915.393.4770 or +632.219.1018



©2010 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Usapang Pamilya at OFW

The conversation below was an excerpt of the post from the Dungeon Lord blog. The DUNGEON LORD is managed by Charlie Montemayor, known in the blogosphere as "LordCM", an OFW for more than five years, based in the tiny island of Palau. CM is a charismatic blogger, but an OFW advocate as well. He is an active forum-mer, and he won PEBA 2009 Mapagkawanggawa award for his role as KABLOGS Officer, and for helping distress OFW's most notably his role in "Project Twitch", an OFW stranded in Dubai, as well as the cases of a maltreated Filipina DH in Jordan, and Riyadh Saudi Arabia.

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LordCM : May mga parents talaga na hindi kayang mahiwalay sa kanilang mga anak, lalo't baby pa lang ang anak mo. pero sa hirap ng buhay minsan kelangan mong sumugal para magkaruon ng kinabukasan ang mga anak mo..

Tina : bakit palagi dito humahantong ang usapan natin? hehehehe
oo nga naiwan kami sa pilipinas para meron kaming magandang kinabukasan, pero is it worth it? I don't know Charlie.

LordCM : Sa tingin mo?

Actually ang pagtatrabaho sa ibang bansa na malayo sa mga anak mo ay hindi dapat panghabambuhay, sabi nga nila gawin mo lang stepping stone ito para pagkalipas ng lima o sampung taon ay magkasama sama uli kayo na hindi nagkakaproblema sa kung saan kukuha ng perang ipangkakain ng pamilya mo...

Tina : ewan ko pa rin charlie, sa akin lang mas gugustohin ko na nandyan mga magulang ko para sa supporta, sa mga school happenings na completo kayo. kahit na mahirap lang kami.

malditang bruha : tama yan charlie, kaya nga ako habang maaga gusto ko mag abroad, un nga lang di pa malinaw kung saan at anong klase ng trabaho...ayoko kasing tumanda na lagi na lang naghihirap, alam mo yun, parang sa parents ko..syempre gusto ko naman maiba ako sa kanila...Sa ating mga pinoy ngayon, di na mahalaga kung may maiiwan ba dito kasi mahirap talga ang life dito..grabe, lalo na ng mga gantong panahon ng tag-ulan..

LordCM : tutuo naman na kahit sino mas gusto ang kasama nila ang kanilang mga magulang pero kung wala ka nang maipakain sa kanila at may opportunity na maiahon mo sila sa hirap ngunit kailangan nyong maghiwalay ng ilang taon, eh ano pang gagawin mo? sunggaban ang opportunity diba? kaysa naman isumpa ka ng mga anak mo dahil ginutom mo sila sa prinsipyong di ka naman mapakain...

Tina : but does the consequences justifies the means? loss years, family indifferences, heartaches? ewan ko pa rin..

LordCM : Yan ang "sakripisyo" na tinatawag ng mga OFW, Ano ba naman yung limang taon na magkahiwalay upang pagdating ng araw ay habambuhay na magkasama kayo at may kinakain, kaysa magkasama kayong namamatay sa gutom.

Tina : Five years is fine charlie but pero minsan merong mas matagal pa dyan...

LordCM : meron talaga, dahil nga sa hirap ng buhay...o kaya naman hindi nagamit ng maayos ang perang kinikita kaya kahit ilang taon sa ibang bansa ay walang nangyayari.

linlazo : sorry to butt in. but i go for tina. i grew up without my mom she was an ofw like you guys. when i was young, whenever my tooth ache, whenever i have a fever, whenever i am sick, i look for my mom. i dont need that fancy barbie toys, i dont need the fancy talking dolls na pasalubong nia sa akin before. i am delighted but only for a short time. now i grew up, i hate her for leaving us when we needed them most. she should be there during the sensitive years that affects our whole personality. she should be there when we need encouragement, should be there when we need to take our medicine, she should be there when when we have parents meeting at school. she should be there to appreciate our sunday bible school drawings, she should be there during our birthdays. etc.

me, as my two daughters mom, with the blessings from God, i will forever strive for us to survive, for as long as im with my kids - money can never buy the times you were with them.

i dont know about lcm, lalaki cia eh. iba ata ang pananaw ng lalaki, just like my hub. he, too, want to go, i support him, but i do not encourage him.

LordCM : Wala na akong masasabi Lin, tutuo lahat ng sinabi mo.

Ang sa akin naman, naisip ko lang, tutal anjan naman mama nila para gabayan sila sa lahat ng oras dahil sa tutuo lang simula nung umalis ako, nakatutok ang misis ko 24/7 sa mga anak ko, ok lang na humiwalay ako para sa kinabukasan nila.

linlazo : sabi ko nga na iba pa rin ang pananaw ng isang ama at ng isang lalaki. wala rin akong masabi sa u pareng charlie, i know u want the best for ur kids. pero ang drama mo nga. naiiyak ako sau.

LordCM : Ikaw kaya nag umpisa, di ko lang masabing nangilid ang luha ko sa sinabi mo eh kasi kahit iba ang pananaw ko, alam ko sa sarili kong kelangan ko rin ung TIME na sinasabi mo kasama ang mga anak ko

ogyaBgrown : huhuhu... napahagulgol ako sa inyo..kase..kase...kase...i can relate waaaahuhuhuhu
ngayon kahit umalis ako o dumating, hindi masyadong close sa akin mga anak ko...ahuhuhu
pero *hikbi* tulad ng sabi ni.. *hikbi* hikbi* preng charlie...kailangang gawin para sa kanila huwaaaaa....

ogyaBgrown : pero totoo pare, my kids...i come and go and no effect na sa kanila, sabi pa ng isa minsan nung sabihin kong bukas babalik na naman ako sa japan... sagot niya "dad, i am so used to you leaving us, i don't feel sad anymore" ...hanggang ngayon nag e echo pa sa utak ko yun. waaahuhuhuhu

ogyaBgrown : i truly feel i don't belong where i am now, i feel useless at work, i feel useless anywhere. and when i am home i watch my family go about their daily routine not needing me, even at home i feel useless. i'm gonna go write a poem.

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Note: The photos above are of the Balane family, an OFW based in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. Carlos Balane did everything he could so he could bring his wife and his kids with him. He is also a blogger, a photographer, and a basketball professional referee. Some PEBA officers are personally good friends to this wonderful family who now live happily, together. Photos used with permission. Not to be used for other purposes other than as PEBA material as an OFW family.


©2010 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Phil Saudi Embassy Ambassador to PEBA Accreditation


We are grateful that you are there fellow expats and OFW. We dream. We realize some. We keep on dreaming and working for those dreams for you.
Attach is the letter of the Philippine Saudi Embassy signed by the Ambassador Antonio P. Villamor. I am planning to personally hand in to him when they arrive here in the Eastern Province the documents along with the information and hoping that this will be the start of a partnership with them especially for the flight of OFW's here in Saudi Arabia.
PEBA SAUDI CERTIFICATION
Thank you for supporting us...me and the rest of the PEBA Team headed by Jet/NJ is grateful for the nominees, 28 now, 29 tomorrow, from 17 countries!
Please be reminded, hindi po ito padamihan ng boto...10% lang po ang vote ng over-all criteria. Kaya alam ko marami pang gustong sumali. Sali na!
©2009 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

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