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OFW or Filipino Abroad — Write Your Story and Earn 2,000 Plus
In 500 to 1,000 words, write a story or an essay about something interesting in your life or work abroad, and then email it to The Philippine Star.
Philstar chooses and publishes three essays every week, and if your essay is chosen, you’ll receive 2,000 pesos, and a chance to win the first, second or third prize of 15K, 10K and 5K, respectively, in December this year.
You should be:
- 18 years old and above
- an OFW or ex-OFW
- a Filipino living abroad or has lived abroad
- a foreigner living in the Philippines
- a Filipino with a friend or relative abroad
Your essay must:
- be in American English
- about a real Filipino experience
This runs from December 1, 2009 to December 31, 2010.
Read more details and chosen essays at The Philippine Star website.
OFW Jobs and Children: A Suicide Stirs a Neighborhood
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.
