Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) now has a one-stop mobile application that allows them to connect with fellow migrant workers.
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) has partnered with OFW Watch, Inc. for an Android-based mobile application designed to link OFWs in distress and to feed them with most recent news.
“[OFW Watch application] is a one-click process of asking ‘help’, data sharing, and other means of Internet applications made easy via mobile phones. The OFW Watch immensely contributed change to the mindset of our ‘kababayans’ working abroad that they have somebody by their side at all times,” OWWA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac said in a press release.
The application’s description said it could alert OFWs if a fellow Filipino near them is in trouble.
“We connect you to other Filipinos in your area who share the same dialect, hometown and profession,” the description reads.
The application features newsfeed, a frequently asked questions page, directories, translator, and currency converter.
The OFW Watch is a brainchild of Myrna Padilla, a former OFW, who draws from her experience of “being alone in countries” where she previously worked as a domestic worker.
The application can be downloaded through Google Play.
