Zamboanga City, December 4 - - The Overseas
Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) is set to establish today an Overseas
Filipino Worker (OFW) Help Desk in Roseller Lim, Zamboanga Sibugay Province.
A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) will be
signed between the municipal government represented by Mayor Michael A. Pioneda
and OWWA-9 Regional Director Hassan Gabra T. Jumdain today, December 4, 2012
during the Job Fair 2012 at the R.T. Lim municipal gymnasium.
In a statement, Director Jumdain revealed that the help desk
will provide the clients with information, education and communication (IEC) materials
and assistance on how to avail themselves of OWWA programs and services. This
will be made available to clients who will visit the desk.
Such services
include social benefits (disability and dismemberment, death and burial
benefits), scholarship, trainings, and incentive programs, workers welfare
assistance program (on-site & in-country), and repatriation &
reintegration programs.