Press Release No. EBB-60-2018

Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah and FilCom synergize efforts in providing food packs to distressed OFWs in Jeddah

Jeddah, 14 October 2018 – The Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah (Jeddah PCG) teamed up with the Filipino Community (FilCom) in providing food assistance to Filipino workers who have been separated from their companies, either by involuntary separation or because of business closure.

Through the “Serbisyo Caravan” held on 12 October 2018, Jeddah PCG, the Office of the Social Welfare Attaché in Jeddah, and the League of OFWs for Empowerment (LOVE) visited and distributed food packs to “kababayans” who are still housed, but without food provision, in company-provided accommodations while awaiting settlement of their unpaid salaries and other financial benefits, and their eventual repatriation.

Vice-Consul Alfred Kristoffer Guiang, Social Welfare Attache Priscilla Razon, and LOVE volunteers handed out food packs which included canned goods, noodles, coffee, five kilograms of rice, and bottles of water to some 140 distressed OFWs from three Saudi companies.

The activity aims to help distressed Filipinos in Jeddah, through concerted efforts by the government and Filipino organizations guided by the spirit of volunteerism and the Filipino value “bayanihan”. END

 Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah officials, LOVE volunteers, and Filipino recipients of food packs after the food distribution during the Serbisyo Caravan

Vice-Consul Alfred Guiang (third from right) and LOVE volunteers (in red shirt) distribute food packs to distressed OFWs in Jeddah