Sara Susanne D. Fabunan, manilastandard.net
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Excerpt:The Department of Foreign Affairs is set to send a rapid response team (RRT) to Qatar, the agency’s Office of Migrant Workers Affairs acting executive director Raul Dado said Wednesday. ...
The DFA for Office of Public Diplomacy executive director Charmaine Aviquivil, meanwhile, said that the DFA and other concerned agencies such as the Department of Labor and Employment, OWWA, POEA, Philippine embassies and Philippine Overseas Labor offices in the Gulf Region are continuously closely monitoring, reassessing, and coordinating the situation of the overseas Filipino workers in Qatar. ...
Based on DFA data, as of 2015, there are 2,297,551 Filipinos working in the Middle East and Africa. There are 250,000 Filipinos who are working in Qatar; 60,000 in Bahrain; 5,000 in Egypt; almost one million in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and 600,000 in United Arab Emirates. There are a total of 7,979,716 Filipinos working abroad. ...
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