The Philippines and ASEAN countries are getting ready to promote massive migration of skilled immigrants, potentially affecting 15 million ASEAN workers. On the other hand, the US has a more inward looking stance, building walls, enacting travel bans and putting America first.
When the US naval bases in the Philippines closed in 1992, the military left behind thousands of Amerasian children. Since […]
Bayanihan Foundation partner, the Alliance for Bases Clean Up Provides Body Talk Access, a Healthcare Alternative to Victims of Toxic Wastes in the Philippines.
My stereotype of overseas Filipino workers are shattered. The Filipino workers in the diaspora workers are not broke. They have expendable income to spend on weekend trips and souvenirs. These Filipino caregivers are untapped market as consumers. More importantly, they have expendable income to give as potential donors for development projects in the Philippines.
Dora, a caregiver in Israel, had to make extreme, personal sacrifices of working without a day off for 7 Months in order to keep sending money back home but at extreme, social costs.
