PH Consulate General in Jeddah Unveils Pocket Guide for OFWs

Consul General to Jeddah Edgar B. Badajos (second from left) leads the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the unveiling of Overseas Filipino (OFW) Pocket Guide with Consul Mary Jennifer D. Dingal (leftmost) and Osmond B. Corpuz (rightmost), with the assistance of Consular Assistant Ronnel Lasacar(second from right). (Jeddah PCG photo)

JEDDAH 27 September 2019  — In line with the efforts of the Philippine government to make it easier for OFWs to reach the right officials or agencies for assistance in case of emergency and to keep themselves always updated on important developments back home and in the host country, the Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah unveiled the OFW Pocket Guide on 13 September 2019.

“The Pocket Guide contains basic information to ensure that every OFW who finds himself or herself in an emergency situation would know right away what to do and whom to contact for assistance,” said Consul General Edgar B. Badajos.

The Pocket Guide encourages OFWs to register at the Consulate or any other Philippine Foreign Mission nearest to them to ensure that they can be easily located and reached by consular officials for any contingency.

Reduced to a mere two by one and a half inches in size when folded, the Pocket Guide was designed so that it can be easily kept inside and retrieved from one’s pocket, wallet, or other personal belonging in case of need. It contains the hotline numbers of the Philippine Labor Attaché for labor concerns, the consulate’s Assistance-to-Nationals Section for police and maltreatment cases, Pag-IBIG, Social Security System (SSS), Overseas Worker Welfare Assocaiation (OWWA), and the Office of the Social Welfare Attaché for concerns falling under these agencies’ purview. One section of the Pocket Guide instructs the OFW to supply his contact details and contact persons in Saudi Arabia, take a picture of the section, and send it at once to his or her emergency contact person for future reference.

The Consulate developed the Pocket Guide in collaboration with a member of the Filipino community in Jeddah, Osmund B. Corpuz. END

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