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Monday, July 31, 2006
Wheelchair-bound Kabankalanon from Lebanon needs help
By Erwin Ambo S. Delilan
NEGROS Occidental Vice Governor Isidro Zayco vowed Sunday to give assistance to an injured Kabankalanon who just arrived from Lebanon and is now in the custody of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (Owwa) in Manila.
Liezel Saludo, a native of Barangay Magballo, Kabankalan City, was among the 89 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) comprising the first batch that returned home from the war-torn Lebanon Saturday morning.
She, however, got the media attention upon her arrival at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) because she was bound to a wheelchair, has a fractured arm and leg, stitches on her face and other injuries which she said resulted from an accident in Lebanon.
She was also weeping because she said her relatives in Negros do not know she was returning.
"As far as I know, Liezel is asking help for her plane ticket from Manila to Bacolod because she finds it difficult to travel by sea, so we will facilitate her request and the province and I are very much willing to assist her," Zayco told Sun.Star.
The vice governor said though that he still needs to talk with Liezel's relatives.
Saturday's first batch of 92 returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), including three children, arrived at around 2 p.m. at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) onboard a Qatar Airways flight.
They were immediately taken to the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (Owwa) office in Pasay City to make room for the second batch of about 120 expected OFWs to arrive 3:30 p.m. on a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok.
A third batch of 20 is arriving at around 6:30 p.m. on Cathay Pacific CX 903 from Hong Kong while the fourth and last batch of the day, a group of 12, is flying in on another Qatar Airways flight around 11 p.m.
Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Esteban Conejos said the total of repatriated Filipinos returning from the war-torn Middle East country would have reached 1,075 from the first day of repatriation until Sunday.
(July 31, 2006 issue)
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