{"id":155583,"date":"2018-03-07T22:22:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T03:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=155583"},"modified":"2018-03-07T22:22:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T03:22:13","slug":"180-distressed-ofws-from-kuwait-return-home-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/07\/180-distressed-ofws-from-kuwait-return-home-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"180 distressed OFWs from Kuwait return home Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_152474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152474\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/317-ofws_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152474\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/317-ofws_1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Philippine Airlines (PAL) flight PR 669 and 97 via Gulf Air flight GF 154. (PNA Photo)\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/317-ofws_1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/317-ofws_1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Philippine Airlines (PAL) flight PR 669 and 97 via Gulf Air flight GF 154. (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA \u2014<\/strong>\u00a0About 180 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Kuwait came home in two batches at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In the morning, around 80 OFWs came on board Philippine Airlines (PAL) flight PR 669. One hundred OFWs have been scheduled to arrive in the afternoon via Emirates flight EK 332.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the estimates of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), more than 2,600 OFWs from Kuwait have been repatriated since February.<\/p>\n<p>These OFWs have received an amnesty from Kuwaiti government. The Philippine government, through the DFA and the Department of Labor and Employment, has been working on the OFWs&#8217; repatriation, because of the abuse and maltreatment that they were experiencing.<\/p>\n<p>One domestic helper in Kuwait, Joanna Demafelis, was murdered and was found inside a freezer. Her employers, who were considered the primary suspects, are currently under the custody of authorities, according to DFA.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the government would provide the distressed OFWs with financial assistance that they could use as capital for small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The government would also shoulder the transportation or airfare for them to go back to their provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014\u00a0About 180 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Kuwait came home in two batches at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":152474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[204,4326,971],"class_list":["post-155583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-dfa","tag-kuwait","tag-ofw","mauthors-ma-cristina-arayata","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}