Food packs, financial aid, and transportation assistance were among the immediate services extended to 112 overseas Filipino workers and their dependents who landed in Manila aboard Emirates Flight EK334 from Dubai, UAE.
Senior officials from the Department of Migrant Workers and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration were on the ground to personally receive the returning workers. OWWA Administrator Patricia Yvonne M. Caunan, DMW Assistant Secretary Francis Ron De Guzman, and OWWA Deputy Administrator Ryan Vincent Uy led the welcoming party, with agency personnel also assisting the arrivals with their baggage upon touchdown.
The group was brought to a holding area at the DTI-Philippine Trade Training Center, where they received meals and special financial assistance before being transferred to temporary accommodation while their onward domestic flights were being arranged. Those bound for provinces in the Visayas, Mindanao, and parts of Luzon were covered under the flight coordination, while OFWs residing in Metro Manila, Region IV-A, and Region III were provided with land transportation assistance by OWWA to reach their homes directly.
The government described the operation as part of a whole-of-government approach to public service delivery, carried out in line with a directive from President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to bring all urgent government services to every Filipino, wherever they may be in the world.
