Ronald of OFW Chronicles guests posts today on OFWAbroad. His entry talks about something that all OFWs should ponder on — when is the right time to go back home?

“There is no place like home, there is no place like home”. Oops!! I forgot I’m not Dorothy of the Wizard of Oz and I don’t have the ruby slippers. She could go to Kansas as long as she can rub the slippers and wish for home but for us OFWs it’s not just rubbing shoes and voila! “Home” we will be, no it doesn’t work that way as there lots of things to consider. One way or the other, every Filipino outside the country has felt the same way. When the going gets tough, home is where we want to be. To be with the family that will comfort, understand and would try to appease our emotional turmoil.

When is the right time to go home for good? What does it take to be able to have a decent means of living back in the Philippines? How many more years an OFW must bear to realize what he/she has dreamed of achieving in deciding to go abroad? These are the questions which aren’t that easy to answer. It really depends on the individual concern.
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According to the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), the public can now send their nominations for the “2011 Model Overseas Filipino Worker Family of the Year Award.”

The OWWA started accepting nominations last July 15 and the last day for submitting a nomination will be on September 16, 2011.

The chief of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said that this award seeks to recognize the outstanding achievements of OFWs and their families so they can serve as role models to the entire OFW community.

Lat year the awardees for the landbased category were engineer Ermie Lagman Garon and family of Hacienda Luisita, Tarlac. For the seabased category, the awards were given to electrician, Victor Dela Cruz and family of Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.

For more information, please visit the OWWA Regional Welfare Office nearest your area.

A 60-year old Filipina nurse working in America as a private duty nurse inherited USD33 million from her employer which happens to be the heiress of one of America’s great fortunes.

Hadassah Peri, now a US immigrant served as the private nurse of Huguette Clark, who is the daughter of a US senator and a copper mining tycoon. Clark is said to have a mansion in New York with 121 rooms and inherited all hi father’s wealth when it died.

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The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) calls for a one-minute silence at 12 p.m today, (March 30, 2011) for the three Filipinos (Sally Villanueva, Ramon Credo and Elizabeth Batain ) set to be executed before noon today in China.

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