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National convention called to identify, address problems
of Filipino seafarers
CIVIL society groups addressing the welfare of seafarers
are hoping that a forthcoming national seafarers' convention
will help to develop a firm government commitment to look
at the problems affecting sea-based overseas Filipino workers
(OFWs). Fr. Savino Bernardi of the Church-based Apostleship
of the Sea (AOS) Manila said the Filipino Seafarers National
Convention, slated to take place in late September, will be
a wide-ranging one, hoping to pinpoint the various problems
of seafarers--from their deployment overseas to their eventual
return home. Jeremaiah M. Opiniano of the OFW Journalism Consortium
reports. Read full story
Sex During Port Calls
Filipino sailors are favoured clients in Brazilian ports.
Filipinos -- many of whom stop by Brazil's ports because they
make up one-fifth of all the world's seafarers -- were the
most pleasant and the least inclined to haggle over prices.
Mario Osava of Inter Press Service makes this contribution
to the OFW Journalism Consortium in a report from Rio de Janeiro.
Read full story
'I Just Pray'
''God's will be done'' is the prayer Esper (not her real
name) utters each time she has sex with her husband, a seafarer
from the Philippines who has been in the trade for 22 years.Esper
is among those wives of Filipino seafarers who worry about
their reproductive health when they make love with their returning
husbands. Marites Sison of Inter Press Service, who makes
this contribution to the OFW Journalism Consortium, had talked
to wives of Filipino seafarers about this health concern.
Read full story
Marriage Can Work
In the Seamen's Village Homeowner's Association (SVHA) in
Dasmarinas, Cavite province, wives of Filipino seafarers have
become resilient in coping with the costs of their husbands'
absence because of their work on-board ocean-going vessels.
As long separation due to overseas employment has been identified
as a factor in the breakdown of the Filipino family structure,
two couples from the village say they are all too aware of
this reality and would like to beat the odds. Marites Sison
of Inter Press Service writes this third contribution to the
OFW Journalism Consortium. Read
full story
Filipino wins International Flash Contest
September 26, 2002 - Glen Dizon, an engineer and beginning
game developer from Mandaluyong won an internet competition
besting entries from around the world with his "Rubik's
Cube" submission. Read
full story
DAWN Teatro AKEBONO Workshop Musical
"Pagsilay ng Bagong Pag-asa! -Isang Kuwento ng JFC-"
Japan Theater Tour, 2002
Teatro AKEBONO, a JFC (Japanese- Filipino Children) workshop
musical Group, coordinated by Development Action for Women
Network(DAWN), an NGO assisting former migrant Filipino women
working in Japan and their Japanese Filipino children living
in the Philippines, will present you the newest production,
"Pagsilay ng Bagong Pag-asa! - Isang Kuwento ng JFC-",
from Oct. 17 to Oct. 27 at 7 prefectures in Japan. Read
details
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