The Filipino Diaspora

The Filipino Diaspora

Many of us Filipinos find answers to how we can make our life better and give our families pleasures and extravagance by going to other country to work. But other Filipinos go abroad just to make both ends meet. Necessities like food , clothing, shelter and education are the needs that every parents wants for our children to have. This Filipinos are called Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW). Depending on the contract they signed in. Some goes home every 6 months, every year or after every 2 years, etc. But whatever contract they are in it is so hard between the one who work abroad and the families he or she left to adjust and accept that they need to be apart with one another.

Families of OFW like if the mother is the one who need to go abroad are the ones who suffer most. Without the mother to guide and take care of them, problems and gaps arise. These children sometimes doesn’t realize how hard for a mother to leave their children just to save their future. Some of them instead of schooling, they become wild and some enter to early relationship or even drug addiction.

Some families are destroyed by being far away with one another. Like their parents met someone else and had another family abandoning the original ones. In this case, the saying that “Absence make the heart grow fonder” doesn’t apply. We are not talking about every OFW. These are the family gaps that we can hear and see that OFW suffers. Not only the overseas worker herself suffered but also his or her family.

Employers are also the conflicts that an OFW have. There are employers who doesn’t give the salary the employee expects or doesn’t give any at all or the agency that the OFW are the ones who doesn’t give what they promised the OFW will receive as salary. There are employers who treat these OFW as slave and even hurt them and some OFW women are even force violently and being raped.

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