OFWabroad.com

I began to explore OFWguide.com a little bit more and I happened to browse around and stumbled across OFWabroad.com. The tagline of this website is: "News, views, stories for the OFW." The purpose of this site is self explanatoy from the tagline. It provides news on POEA, recruitment agencies, and others stories that may be relevant for people who want to or currently work overseas. There is one main blogger who goes by carmela. What I like about this blog is that it is divided into different categories and it has a lot of information for the global worker.

The blogs for the month of October include ones on potential overseas scams, information about looking for jobs and a network site for OFW's. Two blogs talk about warnings about working in China and Taiwan because of legal reasons and advises workers what to do if they are working in those two counties. The issue with China is with undocumented workers and even though there is a demand for teachers in China, the country is forbidden to hire teachers and even domestic workers overseas. Another blog highlights OFWNation.com, a networking site for OWF’s, similar to the ever popular Facebook and MySpace. It just another way for many OFW’s to get to know each other. Carmela states that a really good thing about this website is that the Internet makes brings families who are thousands of miles apart, closer than ever.

I have been looking at several sites and blogs that discussed Kuwait and this blog has information about the country once again. One blog states that there are a lot of illegal workers in Kuwait and another says OFWs are needed in the country. I do wonder how much about Kuwait people know because I am convinced that it is not the safest place to be.

I think that this is a good website because it is able to provide safe information for people who are overseas and their family’s back home. There are a lot of blogs on OFW warnings, showing that the blogger cares about the safety of OFW’s.