The Philippine government is mulling for repatriation of millions of OFWs in Saudi Arabia due to risk involving KSA's conflict with Yemen.
“Saudi Arabia is home to over a million overseas Filipino workers (OFW)—the biggest in the Middle East—who could be at risk in case the situation between Yemen and Saudi Arabia deteriorates,”
-Congressman Winston Castelo, QC
“Saudi Arabia is home to over a million overseas Filipino workers (OFW)—the biggest in the Middle East—who could be at risk in case the situation between Yemen and Saudi Arabia deteriorates,”
-Congressman Winston Castelo, QC
Advertisement
Sponsored Links
The vice chairman of the House committee on the welfare of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) aired confidence that evacuation of over a million OFWs in missiles-threatened Saudi Arabia will be a “routine exercise” among concerned agencies, thus, will be swift and efficient.
Nevertheless, Quezon City Rep. Winston Castelo asked the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Labor to get ready for the repatriation of OFWs in Saudi which has been the target of a series of missile attacks from neighboring Yemen.
Castelo said the DFA and DOLE should always be ready for situations like this even as he asked the two departments to provide the public an update on the situation and ascertain the safety of Filipinos in the Saudi capital.
He noted that this is not the first time that Saudi Arabia had been fired upon by Yemeni rebels who had taken over the government in the poorest country in the Middle East.