Tags: Cottage Industries, Entrepreneurship, OFWs
By Anna Valmero

PASAY CITY, METRO MANILA— Edgardo Paz Almerio returned home from Libya last March and was able to secure a P500,000 loan from the government to start a piggery in his hometown in Batangas City.
Almerio is one of the first batch of former overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were granted financial assistance under the P2 billion “reintegration’ program by the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA).
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