The Philippine Embassy in Abu Dhabi, the Philippine Overseas Labor Office – Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (POLO-OWWA) in Abu Dhabi, has successfully repatriated 92 undocumented, distressed workers from the capital in coordination with the authorities here in the country.
The repatriated workers are expected to land in Manila tomorrow, 9:05 am via Philippine Airlines.
Numbers now reach a total of 1,212 repatriated individuals from Abu Dhabi since the beginning of the year 2019.
In an earlier report, Embassy officials found out that most of the individuals who sought shelter at the POLO-OWWA center were illegally brought here to the country.
“Almost every one of them was irregularly recruited without undergoing POEA processing. Practically all of them were enticed into going to the UAE by social media posts (particularly Facebook) made by unscrupulous individuals,” said the Embassy in an earlier statement.
Embassy officials, through the statement, continues to thank the UAE authorities for the ongoing assistance that helps distressed Filipinos to head back home and reminds fellow Filipinos who plan to head to the UAE to go through proper channels when seeking employment: “The Philippine Embassy thanks the UAE government for its assistance in ensuring the repatriation of these distressed Filipinos at the most expeditious way possible. The Philippine Embassy emphatically reminds all Filipinos seeking employment outside the Philippines to undergo processing by the POEA.”
