Press Release
PR No. ETA-71-2021
PH government brings home 357 Filipinos through a Special Repatriation Flight
Jeddah, 24 November 2021 – The Philippine Overseas Labor Office-Jeddah, in coordination with the Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah, brought home 357 Filipinos through a Philippine government-funded repatriation flight on 23 November 2021.
Filipino repatriates queue at the check-in counters of PAL
at King Abdul Aziz International Airport, Jeddah, during the repatriation.
Consul General Edgar Tomas Q. Auxilian (right) and Labor Attaché Roel B. Martin(middle)
discuss last minute concerns before repatriates board the buses en route to the airport.
Among the repatriates were 7 children, 18 medical cases, 150 Bahay Kalinga female wards, 8 male wards and more than a hundred other distressed workers mostly from the western region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Consul General Edgar Tomas Q. Auxilian (second from right) meets overseas
Filipino stroke survivor (second from left). The OF sought the Consulate’s assistance in security an exit visa.
The Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah and POLO-Jeddah continue to receive requests from Filipinos, both documented and undocumented, in need of assistance due to the ongoing employment instability in the Kingdom and the lack of regular and affordable flights going back home because of the pandemic.
The Philippine government again extends its sincerest appreciation to the Saudi immigration authorities, Philippine Airlines officials, and the Filipino community in Jeddah for their assistance and support in making the repatriation flight possible.
To date, the Philippine government has repatriated almost 4,000 Filipinos from Jeddah to Manila since the start of the pandemic in 2020. Another repatriation flight is being organized by the Department of Labor and Employment through the POLO in December this year.
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