221 OFWs mula Lebanon, inaasahang makauuwi ngayong Oktubre

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00:00More than 200 OFWs in Lebanon are now back in the Philippines this October.

00:06This is the story of Bernard Ferrer.

00:11The Department of Migrant Workers continues to put the condition of Overseas Filipino Workers, or OFWs,

00:18in Lebanon amid the ongoing crisis in the region.

00:22According to the DMW, Secretary Hans Leo Kattak,

00:25more than 221 OFWs will return to the country between October 21 and October 28.

00:3320 OFWs are expected to arrive in the country this week.

00:36350 OFWs are also being processed to return to the country,

00:41of which 178 OFWs continue to three shelters in Beirut.

00:47There are doctors, nurses, and social workers in the shelters who meet the needs of OFWs.

00:53The DMW continues to call on OFWs to avail voluntary repatriation.

00:59They have their own personnel.

01:02Why would they want to stay?

01:04Maybe they have a law sense employer, or maybe they don't have a family,

01:08or they don't have an employer.

01:10So, of course, we can't force them.

01:14They have an income.

01:17The DMW also promised financial assistance to OFWs returning to the country.

01:23The return is P150,000 combined with the DMW-OFW.

01:29That's around P4,000 to P6,000 a year because they are domestic workers.

01:3511,000 OFWs are estimated to be in Lebanon,

01:38of which most are in Beirut.

01:41They are working as domestic workers.

01:44At the moment, the situation in Lebanon is in Alert Level 3,

01:47where voluntary repatriation is being carried out by the government.

01:52Bernard Ferrer for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.

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