OFW Jobs and Children: A Suicide Stirs a Neighborhood

January 24, 2010 · Filed Under Let's Be Kind to Each Other, OFW · 3 Comments 

OFW jobs feed families,  send children to school,  build houses,  help relatives, improve lives; but sometimes, they kill children emotionally and literally.

This morning, our neighborhood was stirred up by the sudden piercing cries and screams of a 10-year-old girl inside a long vacant unit beside her family’s house.  “Kuya! kuya! kuya!…”

Neighbors ran to see what happened, and they were shocked to see her 13-year-old brother hanging from a rope tied to one of the exposed beams.

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OFWs, Parents, Take Advantage of Free Internet Banking to Manage Your Children’s Weekly Allowance

June 13, 2009 · Filed Under BDO, BPI, Career/Work, OFW · Comment 

If you’re a parent whose high-school or college-age kid is living in a dorm or studying in another city or an OFW who likes to control your child’s weekly allowance, take advantage of free Internet banking services offered by local banks.

Most large banks now in the Philippines offer free Internet banking, and they offer lots of services that prompts you to say Wow.

However, in this article, I would describe only two, BPI Express Online and My BDO Internet Banking, because they’re the ones I use.

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