TFC supports OWWA seminar for families of OFs in Davao

The Filipino Channel (TFC) further supports the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration’s (OWWA) programs aimed at providing end-to-end support for overseas Filipinos (OFs) en route to their overseas work and back to the homeland.
The TFC team graced OWWA’s “Mag-negosyo Tayo,” micro-entrepreneurial business seminar recently held at the Pinnacle Hotel and Suites in the Crown Jewel of Mindanao, Davao City in Southern Philippines.
According to OWWA Regional Welfare Office XI OIC-Director Eduardo Bellido, the seminar, attended by nearly 50 OF families, is part of OWWA’s monthly activities for overseas workers and their loved ones under its OFW Family Circle program.  The OFW Family Circle is a program that gathers these OFs and their families with the aim of bringing these distant families together using a holistic approach, covering areas from psychological well-being to financial literacy.  
“Mag-negosyo Tayo,” the micro-entrepreneurial seminar, specifically aims to break the vicious cycle of dependency of the families of OFs.  With the theme “Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset,” the seminar, Bellido said, aims to change the thinking that is prevalent in these families – to look at their OF beneficiaries for economic support.
Bellido said “As much as possible, we want these families to veer away from the dependency situation of the families on those working abroad.  
We also want to develop the entrepreneurial skills of those left behind.  “Kesa naman asa tayo ng asa sa mga anak natin, kaya pa natin, isipin natin anong magandang papasukin? Ano ang magagawa ng ganitong amount na naitabi?” (Instead of depending on our children, we can opt to do something to sustain our families.