Ex-OFWs get teaching jobs

Ten former overseas Filipino workers who are now teachers in Central Visayas each received teaching kits worth P10,000 from the National Reintegration Center for OFWs, the labor department said.

These teacher-OFWs were given Teacher 1 plantilla positions under the NRCO’s Sa Pinas, Ikaw ang Ma’am/Sir (SPIMS) program, which aims to gain back the Filipino workers overseas, particularly the OFW LET passers, and provide them with the option to stay in the country to work as public school teachers.

Department of Labor and Employment-7, in a statement, said a total of P100,000 worth of teaching kits, which comprised of back packs, stationaries and school supplies, flash drives, and voice aid lapels with head-worn microphone were distributed to the beneficiaries.

NRCO-7 Regional Coordinator Dexter Paro said two of the ten SPIMS beneficiaries worked as domestic workers, while the rest actually had a teaching job abroad, particularly in Thailand, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates.

All of them have already been deployed to their respective schools of assignment in the region.

Last month, NRCO-7 released P80,000 worth of instructional materials to eight teacherOFWs.

Aspiring teacher-OFWs are encouraged to avail of the programs and services offered by the NRCO.

The SPIMS program is an OFW reintegration convergence project of the DOLE, Department of Education, Professional Regulation Commission, Commission on Higher Education, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, and Philippine Normal University, among others.