#WeAreMigrants

Dec 18, 2020
3 min

International Migrants and Economic Empowerment

On Friday, December 18, we celebrate International Migrants Day. The purpose of this day is to raise awareness about the challenges that international migrants face. One of the greatest of these challenges is the lack of economic empowerment. Economic empowerment is the ability to take control of one’s personal finances and resources. Many migrants are trapped in a cycle of debt and poverty and this is what pushes them to become migrant workers in the first place. Unfortunate

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Dec 17, 2020
2 min

Advocacy and Support for Filipino Migrant Workers

According to the International Labour Organization, “10 million Filipinos live abroad and more than 1 million Filipinos leave the country each year to work abroad.” Filipino migrant workers can be found in various fields and industries around the world. Unfortunately, countless migrant workers — Filipino migrant domestic workers, in particular — are faced with hardships and obstacles that impact their rights and, in extreme cases, endanger their lives as they seek out employm

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Dec 17, 2020
3 min

#WeAreMigrants Feature: Aira N. in the United Kingdom

Aira N. United Kingdom Nanny age group: 40 to 49 years old 1. What YEAR did you first become a migrant and what was the REASON behind your migration? Year 2015, the first time I become a migrant when I applied as a Domestic Workers in Singapore, it was a salary deduction through the agency of the daughter of my secondary teacher in my hometown because they had a contact person at the agency in Singapore, so, without my hesitation because of the reason behind, it is very diffi

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Dec 17, 2020
1 min

#WeAreMigrants Feature: May Belen U. in the United Kingdom

May Belen U. United Kingdom Housekeeper and Carer age group: 50 to 59 years old 1. What YEAR did you first become a migrant and what was the REASON behind your migration? 1988 ...... poverty and the eldest among my two brothers and four more sisters ... grown in an slum area in Metro Manila. 2. What was the BIGGEST CHALLENGE that you've had to OVERCOME as a migrant? Even [if I] received a low income i start little by little to build a house for my family. 3. What makes you PR

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Dec 17, 2020
1 min

#WeAreMigrants Feature: Jaena D. in Singapore

Jaena D. Singapore Domestic Worker age group: 40-49 years old 1. What YEAR did you first become a migrant and what was the REASON behind your migration? The reason leaving my family in the Philippines was to give them a better life, because life is hard, way back 2017. (There was story behind) 2. What was the BIGGEST CHALLENGE that you've had to OVERCOME as a migrant? The biggest challenge [I] had overcome is [homesickness]. Alone in a foreign land. 3. What makes you PROUD to

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Dec 17, 2020
1 min

#WeAreMigrants Feature: Teresa in Thailand

Teresa Thailand Freelance Migrant Worker age group: 60 years old and up 1. What YEAR did you first become a migrant and what was the REASON behind your migration? 2008. My income in the Philippines was never enough to support our family. 2. What was the BIGGEST CHALLENGE that you've had to OVERCOME as a migrant? When i helped establish our migrant organization here in Thailand in 2015, the biggest challenge is how to help the problems we faced here on labor concerns, visa and

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Dec 17, 2020
1 min

#WeAreMigrants Feature: Jo Ann D. in Singapore

Jo Ann D. Singapore Foreign Domestic Worker age group: 40 to 49 years old 1. What YEAR did you first become a migrant and what was the REASON behind your migration? 1995 To be with my mother 2. What was the BIGGEST CHALLENGE that you've had to OVERCOME as a migrant? Homesickness 3. What makes you PROUD to be a migrant? Being a Migrant Domestic Worker, I was able to send my 3 children to school and my 2 eldest are Professionals already and my youngest is still in The Universi

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Dec 17, 2020
2 min

#WeAreMigrants Feature: Jessa Mae C. in Qatar

Jessa Mae C. Qatar Domestic Worker age group: 20-29 years old 1. What YEAR did you first become a migrant and what was the REASON behind your migration? 2018, dahil po sa tatay. Dalawang beses po siyang nahospital sa sakit na tuberculosis, lung failure at diabetes. Nabaon po kame sa utang. TRANSLATION: 2018, because of my dad. He was hospitalized twice for tuberculosis, lung failure and diabetes. We were buried in debt. 2. What was the BIGGEST CHALLENGE that you've had to OVE

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Dec 17, 2020
3 min

#WeAreMigrants Feature: Wendelyn N. in the United Kingdom

Wendelyn N. United Kingdom Carer age group: 30 to 39 years old 1. What YEAR did you first become a migrant and what was the REASON behind your migration? My Ex-husband and I separated in 2012, although we did not divorce and we did not tell the family that we had separated, although relations among the family members were very strained at this point and my sister in law asked me to leave her house in 2012 and I promised to myself that I gonna build my own house and save money

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Dec 17, 2020
1 min

#WeAreMigrants Feature: Marilyn C. in the United Kingdom

Marilyn C. United Kingdom Housewife age group: 20 to 29 years old 1. What YEAR did you first become a migrant and what was the REASON behind your migration? 2009, Because of financial problem, because we are farmer in the Philippines and its very difficult job, also very small money amount. 2. What was the BIGGEST CHALLENGE that you've had to OVERCOME as a migrant? My first abroad in Lebanon [was] when I was 18 years old, it's a big challenge for me because I come from provi

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