PH Consulate General, Filipino Community Provide Food Packs to Distressed OFWs in Jeddah

Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah officials, League of Overseas Filipino Workers for Empowerment (LOVE) volunteers, and Filipino recipients of food packs after the food distribution during the Serbisyo Caravan. (Jeddah PCG photo)

JEDDAH 31 October 2018 – The Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah teamed up with the Filipino Community in providing food assistance to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who have been separated from their companies, either by involuntary separation or because of business closure.

Through the “Serbisyo Caravan” held on 12 October 2018, the Consulate General, the Office of the Social Welfare Attaché in Jeddah, and the League of Overseas Filipino Workers for Empowerment (LOVE) visited and distributed food packs to Filipino who are still housed, but without food provision, in company-provided accommodations while awaiting settlement of their unpaid salaries and other financial benefits, and their eventual repatriation.

Vice Consul Alfred Kristoffer Guiang, Social Welfare Attache Priscilla Razon, and LOVE volunteers handed out food packs which included canned goods, noodles, coffee, five kilograms of rice, and bottles of water to some 140 distressed OFWs from three Saudi companies.

The activity aims to help distressed Filipinos in Jeddah through concerted efforts by the government and Filipino organizations, guided by the spirit of volunteerism and the Filipino value “bayanihan.” END

For more information, visit www.jeddahpcg.dfa.gov.ph or https://www.facebook.com/philippine.consulate.jeddah.

Vice-Consul Alfred Guiang (third from right) and LOVE volunteers (in red shirt) distribute food packs to distressed OFWs in Jeddah. (Jeddah PCG photo)