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OWWA official heaps praise on Saipan OFWs
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Posted on Feb 04 2006
A ranking official of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration expressed his admiration for the overseas Filipino workers on Saipan for making the effort to enhance their skills by recently learning the culinary arts.
In a letter read by Welfare Officer Mary Dait, OWWA central office administrator Marianito D. Roque extended his congratulations to some 85 Filipino nonresident workers in the CNMI who recently finished their Culinary and Food Processing training course sponsored by OWWA.
“I am really happy that our overseas Filipino workers on Saipan took it upon themselves to continue learning and acquiring skills and values that would empower them and make their gradual reintegration to the mainstream of Filipino society more successful,” Roque said.
The OWWA administrator also reiterated a number of “horror” stories of returning OFWs who experienced difficulties when they finally decided to come back home for good to the Philippines. Instead of coming home to a “hero’s welcome” after enduring loneliness and hard work abroad, he said they come home with no clear prospect of how to start their life anew.
He said the 85 Filipinos who finished the culinary arts course chose to prepare for their future.
Roque said such projects help in identifying the training and retooling of those who choose to embark in a new project or business, and OWWA has been instrumental in this endeavor.
“OWWA has embarked in a lot of projects to make our modern day heroes make a mark on the Filipino nation,” he said.
Roque added that his office has been forging partnerships with different private sector groups and non-government organizations in coming up with schemes to help OFWs overcome their difficulties and anxieties, at the same time sharpen their acquired skills and knowledge for them to be future entrepreneurs and movers of the Philippine economy.
