The OWWA, assisted by the OFWs Help Desk and MDRRMO of E. B. Magalona, fetched Saraviahanon OFW Liezel Labial, 50, upon her arrival at the Bacolod-Silay Airport on Thursday night, February 16, 2023 and brought her home in Barangay Tuburan. Labial suffered stroke while working as a housekeeper in Hong Kong.

OFW Liezel Labial (seated), with (from left), her daughter Rachelle Anne Labial, OWWA staff Myve Baynosa, OWWA driver Percival Genita, OWWA OWWO focal person Marbie Anne Ascaño, and E. B. Magalona OFWs focal person Liza Borja at the Bacolod-Silay Airport Thursday night [Feb. 16].

According to Liza Borja, focal person for OFWs Help Desk of E. B. Magalona, Labial's repatriation was facilitated by the Migrant Workers Office (formerly known as the Philippine Overseas Labor Office), which shouldered her plane tickets.

Hervina Boloabio, a fellow OFW in Hong Kong, accompanied Labial from Hong Kong airport to Bacolod-Silay Airport.

Assisting Labial at the Bacolod-Silay Airport were OWWA OWWO focal person Marbie Anne Ascaño, OWWA staff Myve Baynosa, and E. B. Magalona OFWs focal person Liza Borja.

Borja and MDRRMO personnel Jenard Ocquiana and Robert Jomen brought Labial home in Barangay Tuburan.*

E. B. MAGALONA PIO