A group representing Overseas Filipino Workers has called for emergency shelters for male workers in Saudi Arabia, citing the rising number of distressed men fleeing from their employers.
“It is quite alarming that the number of male distressed OFWs is growing unprecedentedly compared to previous years,’ said John Leonard Monterona, Regional Co-ordinator of Migrante-Middle East
Safe houses and shelters for Filipino women already exist in Saudi Arabia, catering to the thousands of female workers employed mainly as domestic staff.
However, Monterona stresses the need for similar facilities for men in the light of rising cases of abuse:
“We have learned from the distressed male OFWs that they have been transferring from one rented safe house to another every other day and continuously on a TNT (tago-ng-tago) status to avoid being apprehended by the local immigration police..The establishment of an RP embassy’s shelter for distressed ‘modern heroes’ abroad should not be turned down by the Aquino administration as it is in-line with its institutional mandate of providing social and welfare on-site services to distressed OFWs’
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