Philippine president wants overseas Filipinos to be reunited with their families
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00:00The Philippines Department of Labor Employment Secretary Sylvester Belio III met the Filipino
00:10community on Monday night at the consulate's first town hall meeting in Dubai.
00:14During the meeting, Belio said that President Rodrigo Duterte's final goal is to bring all
00:19the overseas Filipino workers back home.
00:21Our president, actually what he wants, the final plan of our president is to get back
00:27all our overseas workers.
00:29An estimated 600,000 Filipinos are working in the UAE, mainly in the hospitality, aviation,
00:35construction, retail, health care and education sectors.
00:39How?
00:40By providing job opportunities, decent and well-paid jobs.
00:46And that is why you must have heard about the Build, Build, Build infrastructure program
00:51of our president.
00:52And according to our economic advice, this program of the president or projects of the
00:57president will create from 800 to 1 million jobs a year.
01:02The Labor Secretary was in the UAE leading a Philippine delegation to the World Government
01:07Summit from February 10 to 12.
01:09Irish Eden Beliaza for Gulf News.