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Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are often hailed “modern day heroes” for propping up the Philippine economy with remittances, but not everyone returns home a success story. Former OFWs Eugene Asio and Arthur Villeta now spend their days collecting bottles for money and waiting in line at soup kitchens for daily meals. The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration has reintegration programs available for repatriated OFWs, but neither benefited from these programs. Asio added, “These agencies call us heroes when we’re abroad… Now that we’re no longer useful, they don’t care about us anymore.”
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