“Unlucky Filipinos who couldn’t get a time slot in the Philippine embassy’s outreach services have to go to Vancouver to simply renew their passports—a process that could cost up to $700 in airfare and accommodations, plus the $69 passport fee.”
Day: February 28, 2014
Women’s group says no to privatization of gov’t hospitals
MANILA – Members of the Gabriela Women’s Party together with concerned mothers stormed the Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday, Feb. 27 to protest and expose the “deceitful moves” to privatize public hospitals beginning with the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital through a joint circular issued by the Department of Finance, the National Economic and…
Gov’t urged to act on cases of trafficked Filipino workers in Malaysia
“The growing number of undocumented OFWs worldwide is indicative of the ongoing crisis of forced migration and the systemic economic crisis in the country.” – Migrante International
Living in shanties better than their life in relocation sites — urban poor families
“I thought that our struggle would end when we accepted the offer to relocate. But now I realized that it is not yet over.”