Program for OFWs set Saturday at E-Mall for Migrant Workers Day

• Posted by admin on June 16th, 2008 filed in What's New

Cebu City (4 June) — As the country celebrates the annual Migrants Workers Day 2008 on Saturday, June 7, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA-7) is gearing up a thanksgiving program for the nation’s modern-day heroes and their families titled “Araw ng Pasasalamat.”

A whole-day event will be held at the E-Mall in Cebu City with more than 5,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families to be treated to an afternoon of entertainment from our very own artist fellow Cebuano singer Chad Borja and the Stage Crew Band.

The program is a way of thanking the OFWs, dubbed as modern-day heroes, on their significant contribution to the country’s national economy not to mention their sacrifices of having to work away from their loved ones just to provide a good future to their family.

Lots of exciting raffle prizes are in store for those OFWs, whether active or returnees, and their dependents who have pre-registered with the OWWA Cebu Office.

From 8am - 3pm, an overseas jobs fair at E-Mall’s 3rd and 4th Floors in partnership with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA-7) and the Department of Manpower Development and Placement Services of the Cebu City Government. Around 25 licensed recruitment agencies with various job orders will join the fair.

At the same time, there will be a ‘Halad sa OFW’ in partnership with the Office of the President - Central Visayas and concerned government institutions like DFA, DOLE, MARINA, NBI, NLRC, NSO, PAG-IBIG, PhilHealth, PRC, TESDA and SSS whose services are available to the public as well. Event sponsors are E-Mall, PAGCOR and GLOBE Telecom.

source: Philippine Information Agency