Boholana OFW returns home safely

Bohol Chronicle
Feb 8, 2006

Boholana OFW returns home safely
By RIC V. OBEDENCIO

Boholana Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) Maria Roxanie Luangco came home safely after an ordeal.

In an interview, Luangco said she worked as a domestic helper (DH) while experiencing a “nightmare” in Malaysia. For more than one year of working transferring from one employer to the other, she was not paid of her salary and often works without food and was denied access to a cellphone. Luangco used to work in Kuwait for three years.

But for the family of Basilia Boncales of Trinidad town it seemed unfortunate that her daughter Estelita Avenido Boncales, who worked as DH was reportedly missing in Kuwait, middle-east.

The fate of Margeliza Remoroza of La Victoria, Carmen town, who worked in Guangzhou, China may be uncertain. She is being detained in that communist country for lack of documents, her father Constancio Remoroza told the Overseas Workers Welfare Assistance Desk (OWWAD) of the Vice-Governor’s Office where he sought help.

The family of Boncales expressed worry and asked agencies concerned to help them. The families of Boncales and Remoroza recently had approached OWWAD for help.

OWWAD said that the as of this writing no update from Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA) on the whereabouts of Boncales.

At the same time, OWWAD is awaiting word from Philippine the embassy in China as to the situation of Remoroza.