OWWA Caraga releases livelihood assistance to displaced OFWs
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The Regional Welfare Office (RWO) Caraga together with The National Reintegration Center for OFWs (NRCO) Caraga, through its focal persons OWWO II Jean Mary R. Ladion and the NRCO Regional Coordinator/ LEO III Anne Jane M. Hallasgo, relentlessly provide the necessary reintegration services in a form of livelihood projects, entrepreneurial webinars, and cash assistance to enable qualified OFW returnees from the different provinces in the region to be entrepreneurs as they reintegrate back to the mainstream society.
for OFW Reintegration (LPOR) is a program of the OWWA-NRCO for returning undocumented OFWs and those who do not qualify under OWWA’s livelihood program which aims to enable livelihood protection and improve livelihood promotion in aid of OFW reintegration. The said program consists of two components/ interventions: the Livelihood Development Assistance Program (LDAP) and the Balik PINAY, Balik Hanapbuhay (BPBH) Program. Both programs must be availed within three years from the OFWs’ latest arrival in the country.
The Livelihood Program
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OFW is defined as those who acquired their passports through fraud or misrepresentation; those who possess expired visa or permits to stay; those who have no travel documents whatsoever; those who have a valid but inappropriate visa; or those employment contracts which were not processed by the POEA or subsequently verified and registered on-site by POLO, if required by law or regulation. The Livelihood Development Assistance Program (LDAP) was established in 2011 through the Administrative Order No. 77 series 2011 Caraga INFOCUS
