The Philippines Acting Labor Consul Cathy Doladol said 1,022 Filipino domestic workers have already been repatriated to the Philippines as of last January and added more are waiting for their legal documents to be processed in preparation for their return.
She stated that “the process of repatriation is carried out in cooperation with the Kuwaiti Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Interior,” pointing out that “the return of Filipino workers continues, and flight times will be scheduled almost daily, regardless of the number of workers whose documents have been processed in preparation for leaving the country.”
She indicated that “more than 637 domestic workers from the shelter and Kuwait’s deportation center have left since the beginning of this March, and the last batch consisted of 130 workers who left on Tuesday morning.
Meanwhile, informed sources said that “there are 329 female workers in the shelter, and about twenty domestic workers are received in the shelter on a daily basis,” noting that “the majority of them are newcomers who refuse to work in the desire to obtain a better job opportunity outside Kuwait”, while others refuse to work because the sponsor does not adhere to the terms of the contract.
She added that “the need to return home is necessary to avoid overcrowding,” noting that “all trips are funded by the Repatriation Program and the Department of Welfare of Foreign Workers, in implementation of the government’s promise to workers abroad to return them to their homes safely, regardless of their current status.”
While the Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines in Kuwait, Jose Almodóvar Cabrera III, confirmed to Al-Rai that work at the new embassy headquarters in the Sabah Al-Salem suburb will begin before the end of next April, Acting Labor Consul Cathy Doladol revealed that 1,022 Filipino domestic workers have been returned to the Philippines as of January the past, and that there is more waiting for their legal documents to be processed in preparation for their return.
She pointed out that “the repatriation program of the Bureau of Migrant Workers, and the Department of Foreign Workers’ Welfare in cooperation with the embassy, is an ongoing project of the Philippine government to assist Filipino workers abroad in returning to their country.”
Meanwhile, the Chargé d’Affaires at the Philippines Embassy in Kuwait, Jose Almodóvar Cabrera III, said work at the new embassy headquarters in the Sabah Al-Salem suburb will begin before the end of next April.
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