{"id":231268,"date":"2019-09-17T19:53:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T23:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=231268"},"modified":"2019-09-17T19:53:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T23:53:14","slug":"dfa-launches-facebook-page-to-help-distressed-ofws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/17\/dfa-launches-facebook-page-to-help-distressed-ofws\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA launches Facebook page to help distressed OFWs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_231269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231269\" style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot-38.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-231269\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot-38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1366\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot-38.png 1366w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot-38-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot-38-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot-38-1024x544.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-231269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The &#8220;OFW Help&#8221; Facebook page, managed by the DFA-Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers&#8217; Affairs (OUMWA), seeks to assist undocumented or irregular workers who are not members of Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) and who are in need of emergency response. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OFWHelpPH\/\">File Photo Screengrabbed from OFW Help\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday launched the official\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OFWHelpPH\/\"><strong>&#8220;OFW Help&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>page on Facebook to provide distressed overseas Filipino workers a new system to\u00a0reach\u00a0the government and request for emergency assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;OFW Help&#8221; Facebook page, managed by the DFA-Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers&#8217; Affairs (OUMWA), seeks to assist undocumented or irregular workers who are not members of Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) and who are in need of emergency response.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It aims to provide a more preferable system in receiving request for assistance from the next-of-kin of OFWs and OUMWA case officers. Especially if the client is unable to contact the OUMWA hotline or travel to the nearest Post,&#8221; its profile reads.<\/p>\n<p>OUMWA is the primary office tasked to handle requests for assistance from the next-of-kin of OFWs in distress or the OFWs themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The said request is then referred to the concerned Foreign Service Post, either a Philippine embassy or consulate, which will conduct the groundwork in making representations with the employer and concerned authorities of the host government to assist the said OFW in distress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday launched the official\u00a0&#8220;OFW Help&#8221;\u00a0page on Facebook to provide distressed overseas Filipino &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":231269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231268","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231270,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231268\/revisions\/231270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}