Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrant Workers’ Affairs Personally Delivers the Christmas Felicitation and Presents of the President to Overseas Filipinos Under the Care of the PH Embassy in Qatar
Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrants Workers’ Affairs Sarah Lou Y. Arriola greets the wards during a visit at the Center on 15 December 2019 (Doha PE photo)

QATAR 02 January 2020 — Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrants Workers’ Affairs Sarah Lou Y. Arriola visited 205 female wards at the Embassy’s Migrant Workers and Other Filipinos Resource Center on 15 December 2019.

During her visit, Undersecretary Arriola conveyed the warm wishes of the President to the wards for the Holiday Season and renewed the assurances of the President that the government does not forget them and that the welfare of overseas Filipinos remains front and center under his watch.

Undersecretary Arriola handed out modest cash assistance to the wards much to their delight.  Adding to their excitement was the announcement that they will also receive in-kind presents from the President in the coming days.

Undersecretary Arriola visited Doha on 15-16 December 2019 as her first leg in a two-week regional visit to various Foreign Service Posts in the Middle East and Africa to personally assess the situation of overseas Filipinos and to meet with her counterparts in the Host Countries. END

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