| April 26 to 29 and May 3 to 5, 2010 - St. Mary College, Guagua, Pampanga Training of Trainers on Migration Realities and Capacity Building January 11 to 15, 2010 - AIM Conference Center, Camp John Hay, Baguio CityTOT on Financial Literacy & Addressing Barriers to Reintegration December 4, 2009Inauguration of Mabini OFW Migration Center October 28 to November 01, 2009 - Milan, ItalyTraining of Trainers on Financial Literacy & Addressing Barriers to Reintegration November 9 & 10, 2009Seminar on Setting-up of Programs & Services for OFWs October 19 to 23, 2009 - CalabarzonTraining of Trainers on Financial Literacy & Addressing Barriers to Reintegration |
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Atikha OFW Helpline in cooperation with Stichting Habagat & Wilde Ganzen distributed relief goods for victims of Typhoon Ondoy!
 Everyone saw on television the footages taken during the onslaught of the storm. Almost 90% of Metro Manila, Rizal and Laguna are deeply flooded. Thousands of families were left homeless. Many lost their loved ones and properties. Atikha sympathized with our people devastated by Typhoon Ondoy.
Through the efforts of our kababayans Leila Ripens, Grace Cabactulan and Doris Fernandez in Netherlands and the benevolent heart of Wilde Ganzen, Atikha received US$11,703 for its relief operations. Atikha also gathered goods from OFW families and members of the Batang Atikha Savers Club.
Atikha mobilized the members of Batang Atikha Savers Club in the community and partner schools. They happily volunteered to help in the packing a... |
Migrants’ children struggle with absence of loved ones
According to various UNICEF studies, children of Filipino overseas workers bear the brunt of the ‘painful effects’ of separation
By Girlie Linao
AFP , SAN PABLO CITY, PHILIPPINES
Thursday, Oct 08, 2009, Page 14
Jocelyn Banez doesn’t know how to tell her mother that she will not graduate with her class after missing all but nine days last year at a private high school in the Philippines.
“I just didn’t want to study,” said the 16-year-old, who spoke on the condition of being identified by a false name. “I also spent a big bulk of my tuition money to go out with friends, buy all the things I wanted and drink with my friends.”
Jocelyn ran away from home for almost two weeks last year when her mother left for a job in Bahrain as a domestic worker.
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Atikha IOM and DOLE-NRCO Partners To Conduct The First Financial Literacy Trainers Training Among Filipino Migrants in Italy
August 3, Rome, Italy-A five-day training course begins today among 20 leaders of Filipino diaspora and migrant communities from Rome, Milan, Turin and Napoli to address the need to improve the level of financial literacy among Overseas Filipinos and OFW’s. The participants take advantage of their week-long vacation, coinciding with their employers’ family holidays to acquire learning as trainors and counselors on wise spending, savings and investments.
The International Organization for Migration or IOM, in cooperation with the Department of Labor & Employment (DOLE) through its National Reintegration Center for OFW’s (NRCO) and ATIKHA, a development-oriented Philippine NGO, supports the event under a E... |
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