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Filipina migrant workers in Japan (both current and former) and their Japanese-Filipino children have a chance to receive financial assistance from the Japanese Embassy. This is part of The Project for Building Capacities of Women and their Japanese-Filipino Children - a grant that was recently signed by the Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Makoto Katsura and Development Action for Women Network (DAWN) Executive Director Carmelita G Nuqui at the Japanese Embassy.
Under the signed agreement, the Embassy of Japan is allotting a budget of USD78,795 or Php3.6 million for the livelihood and capacity programs for former migrant women and their Japanese-Filipino Children (JFC).
This program of the DAWN was created out of concern with the increasing rate of distressed migrant women and their children specifically those who went back to the Philippines from Japan.
Since the establishment of DAWN in 1996, they have executed various programs for migrant women and children such as psychosocial intervention and livelihood programs and it is said that more than 800 have benefited from it. To be able to give assistance to more women and children, the DAWN turned to the Japanese Embassy to aid them in their aim of expanding their training programs and seminars.
Fortunately, the Japanese Embassy gave them a positive response and supported DAWN’s endeavors by giving several sewing and handloom weaving machines. For the society to appreciate and understand the circumstances of being a JFC, the embassy also produced and distributed a book detailing the usual situations and experiences of JFCs in the Philippines. Other finances needed for the trainings and seminars to push through are also shouldered by the Embassy through the grant assistance.
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