Marcos orders $3 billion build up for repatriation and reintegration of overseas employees within the Heart East
WELCOME HOME. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. individually welcomes 343 in another country Filipino employees repatriated from the Heart East on March 23, 2026, amid the continuing regional struggle. Marcos ordered the addition of a PHP 3 billion fund to the federal government’s repatriation and reintegration initiative. (PCO document picture)
MANILA – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has ordered the discharge of an extra $3 billion to reinforce the Division of Migrant Employees’ (DMW) repatriation and reintegration efforts for in another country Filipino employees (OFWs) displaced by means of the struggle within the Heart East.
In line with Govt Secretary Ralph Recto, the price range build up will duvet all the operation, “from post-departure assistance to flights and reintegration.”
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“War or no war, there are Filipinos in extreme distress who we should bring home,” he stated in a observation.
As of June 17, the federal government had introduced house 10,446 Filipinos from the Heart East. Those incorporated 8,281 OFWs, 1,803 dependents and 362 stranded voters.
Recto stated Marcos larger the OFW help fund as a result of he does no longer need repatriation to be an insignificant “airport-to-airport thing.”
“His order is that you cannot land here, it’s up to you. What the President wants is to bring to the province those who are in extreme need, and above all economic opportunities (The President’s order is that no one will be left to their fate upon arrival. What the President wants is to bring them to their province of origin, especially those who are in extreme need, and above all, economic opportunities),” stated Recto.
Upon arrival, the “standard welcome package” they may be able to have the benefit of contains monetary help, psychosocial counselling, clinical review, re-employment and livelihood counselling, Recto stated, bringing up a DMW informant.
To boost up the reintegration of OFWs into the staff, the DMW has additionally performed 15 Bayanihan Para Sa Balikbayang Manggagawa: Nationwide Reintegration Community and Task Gala’s around the nation to assist them hook up with native and in another country process alternatives, livelihood make stronger, and monetary literacy systems, amongst different services and products.
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Reintegration of Heart East OFWs
In the meantime, the Overseas Employees Welfare Management, thru its group Balik-Pinas! Balik-Hanapbuhay! Programme, has additionally equipped livelihood help to 664 not too long ago returned OFWs.
An OFW can obtain as much as PHP 20,000 as help for beginning a small industry.
For returning academics, the Division of Training has additionally created a “recruitment pathway” that may permit them to show in public faculties, Recto stated. (ANP)
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