PROGRAMS AND SERVICES

For its duly registered members, OWWA delivers a wide range of health care, disability and death benefits, scholarships and financial assistance for education and training, workers assistance and on-site services, and social services and family welfare assistance subject to the qualification requirements and availability of OWWA funds.

 

All benefits and services are over and above the provisions of the employment contract, offer of employers, or the laws of the receiving country.

 

For a US$25 membership contribution, an OWWA member and/or his family is entitled to the following benefits and services:

 

1.  SOCIAL BENEFITS

     A.  Disability and Dismemberment Benefit

     B.  Death Benefit

     C.  Burial Benefit

2.  EDUCATION AND TRAINING BENEFITS

     A.  Pre-Departure Education Program (PDEP)

          1.  Country Specific Pre-Departure Orientation Seminar (PDOS)

          2.  Comprehensive Pre-Departure Education Program (CPDEP)

     B.  Scholarships, Training and Incentive Programs

          B1.  Scholarship and Incentive Programs for OFWS / Seafarers

                a)  Seafarer's Upgrading Program (SUP)

                b)  Mariner's Dugtong-Aral (MDA)

                c)  Incentive Program for Top 200 Maritime Cadets (Cadetship Program)

                d)  Marine Educational Development Loan Program (MEDLOP)

          B2.  Scholarship for Dependents

                a)  Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP)

                b)  OFW Dependents Scholarship Program (OFWDSP)

                c)  Education and Livelihood Assistance Program (ELAP)

                d)  Tuloy-Aral Project (TAP)

                e)  Tuloy-Kolehiyo

          B3.  Short-Term Training Programs for OFWs and Dependents

                a)  Skills-for-Employment Scholarship Program (SESP)

                b)  OWWA-Microsoft Tulay

3.  WORKERS WELFARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

     A.  On-Site Welfare Case Management

     B.  In-Country Welfare Case Management

4.  REPATRIATION PROGRAM

5.  REINTEGRATION PROGRAM

     A.  Reintegration Preparedness (On-Site)

     B.  Reintegration (In-Country)