Programs and Services
The Welfare Services Unit, manned by Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) personnel works for the protection and promotion of the well-being of all OFWs and their families in job sites abroad and in the Philippines, upon return or even while at the job site.
Workers Welfare Assistance Program
- Conciliation/Mediation with Employers and Recruitment Agencies
- Referral Assistance to OFWs who wish to pursue labor/welfare case against their employers and/or recruitment agencies
- Psycho-social counseling
- Hospital / Jail / Detention / Work Campsite Visitation
- Repatriation Assistance to workers who are distressed, mentally or physically ill, and human remains
- Other assistance on whereabouts, personal/relationship problems
Reintegration-Preparedness Training Program
- Value Formation
- Financial Literacy
- Entrepreneurial Development
- Techno-skills and capacity building
