Twenty-one (21) OFWs and OFW Family Circles (OFCs) exhibitors will put up booths to showcase their products and services on the 1ST National Congress of OFWs and Families on June 7 Tuesday at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia, Pasay City.
This occasion will house some of the nation’s best locally made products and the best forms of services offered in the country today. Regional exhibitors from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will proudly offer their items and services on this one-day event.
The exhibitors are OFWs and OFW Family Circles who availed of the reintegration program and services offered by the OWWA. Most of them are OFW returnees and OFW dependents who seriously want to start their own business and augment their daily finances.
Like the OFW dependents of Mauban Quezon, they formed their OFC the Mauban OFW Federation with the idea of starting a business based on their knowledge of handicrafts using local raw materials. Their buri products are presently sold locally with the hopes of exporting in the future.
CSM Philippines Inc. of Biňan, Laguna, is one OWWA-assisted business that is exporting internationally. Its finebone china ceramic wares have markets in the US, South Africa and some parts of Asia and Europe.
The OWWA is strengthening its reintegration program and have currently signed with the Landbank of the Philippines and the Development Bank of the Philippines a 2 Billion Pesos OFW Reintegration Program to give better and more flexible loan assistance to OFWs.
The exhibit is open to the public from 10 AM – 5 PM. The 1st National Congress of OFWs and Families is in celebration of the Migrant Workers Day. -30- OWWA
