By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
A FILIPINO tech blogger has launched a blog that is dedicated to helping overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to remotely manage their finances and communicate with their families back home.
“It hopes to bring together information to help OFWs manage their finances. It will contain news and information, such as how they can pay their Meralco (Manila Electric Co.) electric bill remotely,” said founder Edwin “Ka Edong” Soriano, who has been blogging for years.
The idea to start the eOFW blog was born two years ago but only materialized this year after Soriano found a Singaporean partner.
The blog aims to provide news, as well as links, to information OFWs need to manage their finances from abroad.
Soriano said the blog links to services like the unlimited calls service now popular among OFWs.
“The blog also aims to teach OFWs,” he added, noting that his brief experience in Canada gave him a glimpse of what overseas Filipinos need.
“It started with mobile commerce. Then I educated myself on OFW finances while I was in Canada,” he said. “So with that, I will be the eyes and ears of the OFWs.”
Soriano maintains his own blog, and contributes to several others.
One Feedback on "Filipino creates blog to help OFWs with finances"
Rose
Good and your’re helping Filipinos abroad with the finances. I am one of those OFW’s who worked very hard for the welfare of families back home. I bought educational plan for my youngest daughter from CAP when she’s still 6 years old and now she is about to enter college but what I invested for her education went to nothing, I was not able to get a refund even a single cents of what I have paid. WHAT IS THIS? What did the people managing that CAP do with the money?
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