NGO welcomes Saudi King’s intervention to suspend crackdown; calls on PH gov’t to augment embassy personnel and resources for Saudi Arabia The Blas F. Ople Policy Center, a non-government organization that assists distressed overseas Filipino…
Hostaged! BY SUSAN OPLE ⋅ JANUARY 21, 2013 As posted in www.blasoplecenter.com This is the story of 31-year old seafarer, Gerald Gonzales, from Iloilo City. He holds the record for being the longest held Filipino…
By Susan V. Ople as posted in www.susanople.com Labor attaches and welfare attaches from all over the world gathered for a year-end assessment and planning conference last December at the Taal Vista Hotel in Tagaytay…
By Susan V. Ople As Posted in www.susanople.com Your first job shapes you. You come in, timid and careful, soaking the environment in while wanting to blend with the wall. Days and weeks after, you…
As Posted in blasoplecenter.com Over five hundred relatives and families of overseas Filipino workers will celebrate Christmas with their own party organized by the Blas F. Ople Policy Center, a non-profit organization that assists migrant workers,…
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, 31 October 2012 Calling All OFWs and other Overseas Filipinos: Register as Overseas Filipino Voters for the May 2013 Elections. The OAV Summit Group composed of different civil society groups, committed to…
Notice to OFWs in US Military Bases Around the World The Blas F. Ople Policy Center is the NGO partner of a US-based law firm known as Barnett & Lerner. We would like to extend…
First Posted in : susanople.com Blas F. Ople Policy Center June 28, 2012 NGO’s appeal: “Save euro-zone, but save Consulate in Spain as well”
Source : http://www.susanople.com Dear Congresswoman Bonoan-David, Greetings from the Blas F. Ople Center! The Ople Center is a non-profit organization that has been assisting distressed Filipino workers since its inception in 2004. One of our roles…
Actions Taken by Patnubay and VolunteersMay 24, 2012 Pinuntahan ng Patnubay sina tatay noong thursday with ka Roland.. nakausap natin yong mga nagbantay sa kanya, they said na kailangan 8000 for the penalty of the…
Here is a link to the video that we in the Blas F. Ople Center created to highlight Mang Fred’s heartwarming reunion with his mother: Last Friday, Alfredo Salmos finally got the chance to come…
Ople Center urges DFA to seek international community’s help in the rescue of Pinoy seafarer held captive in Somalia for the past 2 years Mother’s Day may be just a week away but that fact…
The Blas F. Ople Center, a non-profit organization that specializes in labor and migration issues, made a formal recommendation to the Department of Foreign Affairs for an immediate and impartial probe into anomalous practices involving…
The Blas F. Ople Policy Center, a non-profit organization that assists distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), called for a congressional inquiry into the state of rescue operations in Syria in light of the first Filipino…
Several non-government organizations involved in overseas employment issues banded together to oppose Philhealth Circular No. 022 that would nearly triple the amount of premiums to be paid by overseas Filipino workers by next year. Philhealth…