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Heart Warming OFW Surprise Video: Children Reunites With Their Father After Almost 5 Years

Going back home after many years, to the place where your heart resides – is one great momentous event that every OFW longs to experience.

Working for so many years abroad, away from your family and relatives, is just one of the many sacrifices an OFW had to endure just to provide a much better life for their families in the Philippines. Such sacrifices are even doubled because of their need to adjust to certain cultural differences concerning their environment and workmates. Despite that, Overseas Filipino Workers still needs to go on and face the multitude of challenges on front of them, with the hope to be back home, someday.

A very touching moment was captured on cam and was shared by social media.

In the video, a blue container was prepared inside the living room. Children were then gathered around it, excited for its content. They had no idea what’s inside, or should we say, WHO is inside.

The container was opened and everyone was surprised to see their loving father. They were apart for four and a half years. He worked in Dammam, Saudi Arabia but was unfortunate enough to be struck with the current economic crisis in the country.

Luckily, the government was able to help him get home to his family in Bacolod City for free.

This touching event is a great reminder of the heroic act of our OFWs abroad. They should be well-appreciated and loved.

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Taiwan Elderly Care

Hsiaoai Jenai Charity Home in Pingtung in southern Taiwan.
Filipina caregiver much loved by elderly patients in Pingtung
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Charity home nominated Vena, 47, to pursue a professional home-nursing course; she was then open for promotion as a caregiver on a better salary.

A 47-year-old Filipina who was first hired as a cleaner has become a professional caregiver winning hearts and praise from elderly people at a nursing home in Pingtung, in southern Taiwan.

The Filipina Vena has professional qualifications as a nurse and that was the work she did for two years prior to her arrival in Taiwan as a domestic helper years ago. Later, she married a Taiwanese man and became a full-time housewife taking care of the man and his son.

About two years ago, her husband had fallen ill, so Vena decided to go back to work – as a cleaner at Hsiaoai Jenai Charity Home in Pingtung, after taking bridging courses and getting a successful referral from the government’s Chaozhou Employment Service Center.

Since then she has helped caregivers with various tasks and won high praise from the elderly patients. Indeed, Vena was nominated by the charity home to pursue a professional home-nursing course. And after doing that, she was promoted as a caregiver with a better salary.

Vena said she had greater job satisfaction as her new duties enabled her to recall good memories of her early days as a nurse. They also made good use of her skills in looking after needy elderly patients, according to a report by the Central News Agency.

OFW Forgives His Husband Cheating

OFW Forgives Cheating Husband Who Falls Gravely Ill After Mistress’ Death

The saying goes, “to err is human, to forgive is divine.” If that’s the basis for divinity, then this OFW might be the most holy person to have ever walked the Earth when she forgave her cheating husband.

Imagine the pain of being cheated on by your spouse. This type of betrayal can break a person, causing them to be cynical and mistrustful of others. But this OFW who worked in Hong Kong managed to find it in her heart to forgive her cheating husband.

Patricia Lazaro has worked as a domestic helper in Hong Kong for 13 long years. Like many OFWs, she endures sleepless nights and exhausting days to provide for her family in the Philippines.

Instead of appreciating her efforts, Patricia’s husband took advantage of her absence. While she was off doing backbreaking work abroad, her husband entered into an affair with a mistress. In spite of this, Patricia found the strength to forgive her cheating husband.

Patricia returned home to fix their relationship, but her cheating husband even had the audacity to choose his mistress over his wife. Even after lowering her pride, Patricia was left heartbroken once more when her husband spurned her. She then went back to Hong Kong and busied herself with work.

Over the years, Patricia has made several attempts to rekindle their marriage. But every single time, she was rejected and her husband kept choosing his mistress. These were the darkest moment of Patricia’s life. After realizing that she had no reason to stay in the Philippines, she returned abroad.

Years later, news reached Patricia that her husband’s mistress had perished due to an illness. Alone and heartbroken, the husband fell gravely ill months later.

Now this is when things took an interesting twist.

You might think that the cheating husband was already getting his comeuppance for btraying his wife, but Patricia proved that her heart was much bigger than his mistakes.

Patricia, who was cheated on and rejected by her husband countless times, proved that she still nursed a soft spot for him. She immediately went back to the Philippines to take care of him while he battled with cancer.

OFW In Dubai Returns Home After 2 Years Of Hospitalization

OFW in Dubai Returns Home After 2 Years of Hospitalization and 9 Months in Coma Stage.

Finally, after two-years of staying in hospital, an OFW based in Dubai is back in the loving arms of her two children who looked forward to such most-awaited moment.

Perlie Almonte, who was working as a supervisor at DHL has been under comatose for 9 months for suffering from intracerebral hemorrhage.  She has been found unconscious inside the bathroom of her house and was brought to the hospital on April 28, 2015.

Dubai Health Authority stated that Almonte only gained consciousness in January of 2016.  And after countless physiotherapy sessions at Rashid Hospital, she was already prepared for her ‘sweet comeback’ as she sets foot on her native land and be united with her family.

“I am so excited to go home. The first thing I’d love to do is hug my two kids,” she said.  Since Almonte cannot speak because of tracheostomy that she undergone, she either nods her head or types words into her mobile phone as she responded to an interview with Gulf News.

On Sunday, Almonte flew back to Philippines and will continue her rehabilitation at Laguna Doctors Hospital in Sta. Cruz, Laguna.

In Facebook, Almonte expressed her deep gratitude to Rashid Hospital for the medical attention accorded to her saying, “You have been my therapists, supporters, friends, family, well-wishers and angels in disguise. Medicines can cure, a good doctor’s and nurse’s inspirational words can give strength to fight from within.”

She was also thankful to her employer, DHL, who shouldered all  hospital and medical expenses which she incurred while being confined in Dubai including her travel going back to Philippines.

With all the hopes and prayers, Almonte will surely be on her way to full recovery.

OFW Feels Fulfilled After Sacrifices

OFW Feels Fulfilled After Sacrifices All Paid Off As Daugiter Passes CPA Board Exam

An OFW working in Hong Kong feels so blessed after her youngest daughter passed the recent CPA (Certified Public Accountant) Board Exam.

Juvy Forunato rejoices over the success of her 20-year-old daughter, Nimfa for passing  the Board Exam which she took just for the first time. The OFW said all of her hard work have been paid off seeing her daughter’s achievements who is currently working in an accounting firm in Intramuros.

The 48-year-old OFW from Pangasinan has been working in Hong Kong for 16 years already. She has been separated from her husband for 12 years and solely raised her two children while working abroad.

According to Juvy, her youngest daughter’s achievement means so much to her as she didn’t failed her considering the fact that her eldest daughter just finished high school and then left their home to be with her boyfriend five months after Juvy and her husband got separated.

Nonetheless, she said she is very happy that Nimfa has made it which is a good start of bringing their dreams into reality.

Juvy also is thankful to her employer in Hong Kong and her co-workers whom she said have been so good to her and were very supportive during the times that she was facing financial challenges.

The story of Juvy is only among those success stories of OFWs who proves that behind all the sacrifices that they had to go though aside from being away from their families, in the end, it will be all worth of it as they look to a better future which lies ahead.

As of press time, Juvy with the help of her daughter, Nimfa were able to purchase their own land as their investment and were looking forward to live in their own dream house very soon.

OFW Puts Her Life In Danger

An OFW in Hong Kong Puts Her Life in Danger by Following Employer’s Task to Clean Window Panes from a High-Rise Building

Working as an OFW is not as easy as others may think it is.  In fact, sometimes, their lives were put in danger more particularly when they’ve found an employer as vain as this!

Elpie Leba, an OFW in Hong Kong shared on her Facebook account some pictures of a certain helper who was cleaning the window panes of a unit in Grand Garden Building located in South Bay.

The first photo may look like a usual scene of a person cleaning the windows but the next pictures are breath taking because the helper was already coming out of the window just to clean the other panels without a harness or a safety gear.

Considering the idea that what the helper was asked to do by her employer was very dangerous and life-threatening, Elpie said in her post that she will never do the same even if it will cost her to lose her job.

The said post has earned various comments from the netizens but mostly enraged by the fact that the employer of the helper was so inconsiderate for asking the helper to clean the windows without taking into consideration her safety as she was almost hanging on the window just to clean all the window panels.

Some of them even said that what she did was risky and the helper can report her abusive employer for being told to do so.

More over, the pictures which Elpie shared mirrors the lives of our OFWs which were unknown to many who think that working abroad made them live conveniently and luxuriously because they were earning dollars.

Truth of the matter is, it’s hard for them to earn money. And in the course of earning them, most of the OFWs doesn’t even care if their lives where put into risk for as long as they will get paid so they can send it to their families in the Philippines.

This is a sad reality that everyone should come to realize.

OFW Recieved Her Livelihood Kits From OWWA

OFW Received her Livelihood Kits from OWWA “Balik Pinas Balik Hanap Buhay Program”

The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) had recently launch their Program tagged as “Balik-Pinas Balik-Hanapbuhay”  as support to Overseas Filipino Workers who had decided to return to the country.

One of their recipient is Rosalina Casuga from Baguio City who had decided to leave Malaysia after working there for 6 months because according to her, the salary which was indicated in the contract which she signed was not implemented.

Ms. Rosalina B. Casuga from Upper San Carlos, Baguio City received livelihood starter kits/ grocery items for her sari-sari store business under the Balik Pinas Balik Hanapbuhay Program.
This program is a livelihood assistance intended to provide relief to returning member OFWs who were displaced from their jobs due to wars/political conflicts in host countries or were victims of illegal recruitment and/or human trafficking or other distressful situations.

She was thanking OWWA for extending assistance by funding a sari-sari store for her.

She received her starter kit livelihood assistance last June 2, 2017.

The Program aims to give support to the returning OFWs who  had been victims of illegal recruitment, abused by  employers, human trafficking and under distressful circumstances, displaced by hostilities or those that are trapped in war in the country where they work.

This is a good news for all OFWs.  This is a way of giving another hope for them whose faith did not turn out to be successful in a foreign land.

This is also one way of making their return to the country worthwhile so they don’t need to leave their families to work abroad.