SECTOR: Social Services
SONA YEAR: 2022
Enroll children of OFWs in programs
PROMISE STATUS - DATE: In progress as of 07/17/2023
- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration formed the OFW Children’s Circle (OCC) program 10 days before Marcos’ 2022 SONA, following his directive as president-elect.
- The program’s activities aim to help kids “cope with the negative effects and social costs of migration”. A total of 13,339 children of OFWs have registered in the program as of May 2023 in its pilot areas: Metro Manila, Ilocos region, the Southern Tagalog region, Central Visayas, and Southern Mindanao.
- OWWA continues to offer three educational and social assistance programs for children and siblings of OFWs, started by previous administrations, with 20,104 individuals availing of the programs in 2022.
- There were 259 beneficiaries from January to May 2023 of the Education and Livelihood Assistance program for dependents of the deceased, based on data OWWA sent to VERA Files.
- Applications are on-going for the Education for Development Scholarship Program (for college students; P60,000 maximum per school year) and OFW Dependent Scholarship Program (for college students; P20,000 per school year).