Quezon 'Balikbayanihan Caravan' brings government services to OFWs

By Ruel Orinday August 22, 2020 Quezon provincial government's Committe on Migration and Development (PCMD) and the Provincial Gen...

By Ruel Orinday
August 22, 2020

Quezon provincial government's Committe on Migration and Development (PCMD) and the Provincial Gender and Development Office brought government services to repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in this town thru 'Quezon Balikbayanihan OFW Serbisyo Caravan' August 18, 2020

LUCBAN, Quezon - Quezon provincial government's Committe on Migration and Development (PCMD) and the Provincial Gender and Development Office brought government services to repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in this town thru 'Quezon Balikbayanihan OFW Serbisyo Caravan' August 18, 2020.

According to Quezon Public Information Office, committee member agencies rendered services such as guidance and counselling services, livelihood programs, financial literacy programs, and sensitivity trainings among others to OFW beneficiaries.





Lucban Mayor Celso Oliver Dator in his message thanked the provincial government and representatives of PCMD member agencies for the free services provided to his contituents particularly the repatriated OFWs.

PGAD Head Atty. Geoff San Augustin also expressed his appreciation for the free services.





"Ito po ay isang paraan upang muling bigyan ng pagkakataon ang ating mga repatriated OFWs na muling makapaghanapbuhay habang narito sa ating probinsiya at humaharap sa krisis dulot ng COVID-19 pandemic," he said.

(This is one way of giving another opportunity to our repatriated OFWs to have other livelihood while in the province facing the crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.)

Aside from spearheading the caravan, the PCMD also administered free influenza vaccine immunization to beneficiaries and employees of the municipal government of Lucban.

PCMD member agencies that participated in the caravan include: the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA); Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE); Department of Trade and Industry (DTI); Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA); St. Jude Multi-Purpose Cooperative; Seafarers Cooperative; Landbank of the Philippines (LBP); Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT); Southern Luzon State University (SLSU); Provincial Agriculture Office; Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office and the local government unit of Lucban, Quezon (Ruel Orinday, PIA-Quezon with report from Quezon PIO)