CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – In some cases, the turmoil in Libya could be an oppor-tunity to earn more.
Karen Dale of the Pampanga Action Center for Overseas Filipino Workers Concerns (PACOC) reported that six Kapampangan workers were put in a quandary on whether to fly back home from their work at the IBM Sina Polymedic Clinic in Benghazi, Libya.
“They were offered an increase in compensation and benefits by their employer if they stayed on,” Dale said.
The six workers, whose identities were not immediately available, later decided to reject the offer amid deteriorating peace and order situation.
“They opted instead to avail themselves of help from their employers for their transport to the Gariones Tourist Village Hotel where four other Filipinos awaited transfer to a nearby port where they expected to board a ship bound for Greece, Dale said.
Dale said the Kapampangans at the hotel were able to contact their relatives in Pampanga for help. The relatives, in turn, sought the help of Gov. Lilia Pineda who alerted PACOC.
Dale said the Kapampangan OFWs at the hotel were reported to have already joined 1,500 other compatriots at a designated port for their travel by ship to Greece.
Pineda said that yesterday, Kapampangan engineer Rafael Yaya of Sta. Rita town and 21 of his co-workers at the Harsha Rabish Al Zawiyah in Libya were expected at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on board Qatar Airways.
Dale said she got this information from Mrs. Yaya who reported that her husband and co-workers had stayed in a designated pick up point in Tunisia since last Friday after fleeing Libya.
PACOC had provided Mrs. Yaya free telephone communication with her husband all throughout the OFW’s flight from Libya.
PACOC chief Maria Eliza Rey Muñoz had been coordinating with Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Esteban Conejos, Jr. in the case of the Kapampangan OFWs.
Muñoz said Pineda has vowed to “provide whatever necessary assistance and services the provincial government could extend to the displaced OFWs.”
Karen Dale of the Pampanga Action Center for Overseas Filipino Workers Concerns (PACOC) reported that six Kapampangan workers were put in a quandary on whether to fly back home from their work at the IBM Sina Polymedic Clinic in Benghazi, Libya.
“They were offered an increase in compensation and benefits by their employer if they stayed on,” Dale said.
The six workers, whose identities were not immediately available, later decided to reject the offer amid deteriorating peace and order situation.
“They opted instead to avail themselves of help from their employers for their transport to the Gariones Tourist Village Hotel where four other Filipinos awaited transfer to a nearby port where they expected to board a ship bound for Greece, Dale said.
Dale said the Kapampangans at the hotel were able to contact their relatives in Pampanga for help. The relatives, in turn, sought the help of Gov. Lilia Pineda who alerted PACOC.
Dale said the Kapampangan OFWs at the hotel were reported to have already joined 1,500 other compatriots at a designated port for their travel by ship to Greece.
Pineda said that yesterday, Kapampangan engineer Rafael Yaya of Sta. Rita town and 21 of his co-workers at the Harsha Rabish Al Zawiyah in Libya were expected at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on board Qatar Airways.
Dale said she got this information from Mrs. Yaya who reported that her husband and co-workers had stayed in a designated pick up point in Tunisia since last Friday after fleeing Libya.
PACOC had provided Mrs. Yaya free telephone communication with her husband all throughout the OFW’s flight from Libya.
PACOC chief Maria Eliza Rey Muñoz had been coordinating with Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Esteban Conejos, Jr. in the case of the Kapampangan OFWs.
Muñoz said Pineda has vowed to “provide whatever necessary assistance and services the provincial government could extend to the displaced OFWs.”
