Jollygoodfellow Posted January 27, 2011 Posted January 27, 2011 This paragraph admits to the problems of sending Filipino workers overseas to support family.Read the full story, Click Here Little Italy in the Philippines Despite the wealth brought by the Italian ventures, officials concede that there are costs to having so many people from the community working outside the country.Magsino, the district chairman, said family members left behind had become dependent on the remittances of their relatives."Many don't want to work in the farms anymore. They just play cards and go to cockfights," he lamented.Constantino-Penas said her non-government organisation, Atikha, had been working to teach the overseas workers how to manage their money and to make sure their relatives at home didn't suffer the ill-effects of separation."There is a social cost of migration. Children left behind don't want to study. Their mindset is they should go abroad and not study. We see a lot of drop-outs, most of them among overseas workers' children," she said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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