The OFW job search in Manitoba is on. Manitoba, a Canadian province with 110,000 lakes bordered by the provinces of Ontario, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, North Dakota and Minnesota is in need of Filipino workers to meet the labor demands of the province. Because of the aging population of Manitoba and its low birth rate, they are expected to hire an estimate of 20,000 new workers every year by 2016.
For all those wishing to work abroad particularly in the Middle East and particularly Filipinas, think several times before making your final decision to leave your family and home.
Of all the Filipinos, OFWs are said to be the ones extremely vulnerable to HIV. Based on statistics, OFWs account for 32% of all our HIV and full-blown AIDS cases.
When Blas Ople was then the Labor Secretary in the 1970s, the idea of deploying Filipino workers to the Middle East was just a temporary solution to the unemployment problem in the country. But what was once a temporary solution has become a permanent policy for the government. What does this strategy imply? How does this policy affect all of us Filipinos? Is the government relying too much on the deployment of Filipino workers abroad to make the economy stable? Is this all they can do as leaders of the country?