An information campaign targeting Filipinos seeking to work abroad is necessary to help protect them from groups that will recruit them to work as scammers, Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople said Wednesday.
In a TV interview, Ople said that aside from Myanmar, the Department of Migrant Workers is also looking at human trafficking incidents involving Filipinos in Cambodia and Laos. She said they were able to bring home several survivors from these countries.
“It’s online recruitment. It’s when you are at home. This is different from going outside and meeting an illegal recruiter. Here, it’s just one on one,” she added.to seek help for their repatriation.who were rescued from a Chinese syndicate that made them work as scammers. For her part, Ople called on Filipinos who are looking for job opportunities abroad to check with them first to determine if the agency they are applying to is on DMW’s list of licensed recruitment firms.
“We have a hotline…or basta may duda, huwag na kayong tumuloy, huwag niyo nang patulan [if you have doubts, don’t go there anymore],” she added.Meanwhile, Ople said they are seeing a possible doubling of the money transfers from Filipinos abroad in the first quarter of 2023.“Unless any cataclysmic event occurs, we are looking at perhaps…doubling of remittances,” she added, hoping that there would be no drastic changes in the COVID-19 situation to make this happen.
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