Philippine leaders committed to welfare of overseas Filipinos

Philippine leaders committed to welfare of overseas Filipinos

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Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter

The commitment of all Philippine politicians/public servants with regard to the protection of the rights and welfare of overseas Filipinos (OFs) has been raised while the sincerity of legislators in passing a law for the proposed Department of Overseas Filipinos (DOFIL) has been put in question.

This happened on Thursday when the Office of Philippine Senator Emmanuel Joel Jose “Joel” Villanueva hosted a worldwide “Public Consultation with Overseas Filipinos” which ran way past the original 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. UAE /1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Philippine schedule to nearly six hours. Eight hundred OFs across Asia, Australia, the Americas and Europe were announced to have logged in by 10 a.m.

According to Villanueva, the Thursday consultation was “either the fifth or sixth” he and his staff had undertaken to get the pulse of all public/private stakeholders for