By Carina L. Cayon
DAVAO CITY, Aug. 9 (PIA) – The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) in the region is inviting stakeholders to nominate their model Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) family for the 2012 Model OFW Family of the year Awards or MOFYA.
OWWA-XI Regional Director Ma. Elvira Ador has urged OFW non-government organizations, peoples’ organizations, religious groups, community-based socio-civic organizations and local government units to submit their nominations on September 17.
Ador said the awards aim to highlight the best practices of OFWs and their families in overcoming the challenges of migration.
MOFYA centers on OFW families who have nurtured strong family relations and properly managed the financial benefits from overseas employment, she stated.
The nominees must have also excelled educationally and professionally, and achieved positive impact in the community where they belong, the OWWA-XI official said.
Ador said 34 model OFW families in the country’s 17 regions will be chosen for exemplifying the socio-economic gains of international migration.
She explained that a national awardee each from the land-based and sea-based categories will be proclaimed and honored in awarding ceremonies set in December 2012.
Special awards will also be given for community services and entrepreneurship, she added.
Interested groups could obtain nomination forms and details about the 2012 MOFYA from OWWA’s website at www.owwa.gov.ph. Deadline of submission of nominations is set on or before September 17, 2012. (PIA-11/Carina L. Cayon)
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