JULY 20, 2012 – Overseas Filipino Workers will use Facebook and Twitter to protest the impending plan of Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth) to increase its premium. Dubbed as Global Webwide Protest to Stop Philhealth Increase which will run from July 20 – 25, 2012 in different social media platforms, the online protest was initiated [...]
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Free IT training center for OFWs launched
With overseas jobs getting more scarce, it is about time that alternative employment or income sources are made available to Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW). The Bantay OCW Foundation recently launched its Operations Center that provides free IT training led by Informatics Philippines to OFWs and their dependents. The facility was set up through the partnership [...]
In celebration of SME Week: Free entrepreneurship training programs offered
As part of the celebrations of SME Development Week, DTI Secretary Gregory L. Domingo recently announced that budding entrepreneurs can avail of free entrepreneurship training programs to be offered on 8-9 July 2011, at the Philippine Trade Training Center. This is in keeping with the drive to encourage more Filipinos to participate in the SME [...]
@kikopangilinan: Jobless as “Farmtreneurs” key to food security and jobs creation
It must have been thirty years ago when I worked at the UP Institute for Small Scale Industries in the early 80′s. Providing ways to increase productivity in the agricultural sector is the solution to develop our economy. Our country is rich in natural resources and I find it disheartening that all these agricultural development [...]
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3 Drug Mules and the Future of the Ordinary Filipino
The execution of the three Filipino drug mules in China is a long testament to the ugly diaspora of our countrymen who are forced to leave abroad to better the lives of their families. Perhaps, our agony from the burden of seeing OFWs dying from lethal injection in China is far from over as we [...]