Overseas Filipinos can now send “pasalubong” to their loved ones every time they remit through BPInoy at BPI Express Remittance Center (BERC) or any of its remittance tie-ups. This is made possible through the BPInoy Real Thrills Program, an automated rewards program that gives equivalent credits for remittance transactions.

“BPInoy understands the Expat Pinoys’ need to connect with their loved ones in the Philippines. BPInoy Real Thrills enables Expat Pinoys to bring joy to their families even when they are far away by sending them ‘pasalubong’ for free,” says Teresita B. Tan, BPI Senior Vice-President and Group Head of the Overseas Banking and Channels Services Group.

The Real Thrills program is BPI’s rewards program for its clients. The program is active all throughout the bank’s network of services from credit cards, savings accounts, and even loans. The BPInoy Real Thrills program specifically caters to Overseas Filipinos.

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Filipinos abroad can help our kababayans who were devastated by Typhoon Ondoy by sending donations through the Philippine Red Cross or through Paypal through TXTPOwer.org.

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Filipinos are more adept in business than any other culture in the world. They devise more and more ways for you to earn money, and by doing so, giving you unlimited ways of earning sideline cash.

Recently, the Philippines has also been renowned to be the world’s “Texting” hub wherein more and more Filipinos daily send a huge amount of text messages than any other country abroad today. And with that huge amount of text messages, some of the best Filipino management and marketing groups like ADI telecommunications, have come up with some of the best and finest promotions and opportunities available today when it comes to mixing business with telecommunications. They have come up with the Enegosyo proposal to offer to anyone who wish to start their own prepaid reloading business.

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Filipinos are spread out throughout the world like oxygen makes up our atmosphere. With over a fourth of the country’s populace migrated or working in different countries, wouldn’t it be a plus for them to get the best in overseas calling services which are readily accessible and affordable? The Poketalk web service allows you to call your friends, loved ones, and colleagues from anywhere in the world and it’s for free. The service is easy to use.

Steps on availing the Poketalk call service:
1. Just visit their website in their homepage.
2. Fill up the online forms on how you can register for the service.
3. A confirmation email will be sent to your email account for verification.
4. And you’re done. Just enter your landline number and the destination number you want to call, and you are all set.

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While the Global Financial Crisis hits the world head-on, majority of the people who are so affected with this catastrophe are Filipino OFW’s and their families. In a tragic turn of events, Filipino Overseas contract workers started coming home because employers abroad were trying to even out the crisis and attempting to cope up with its demands.

To help with this predicament that befell our overseas heroes, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo through the initiative of the Overseas Workers Welfare Organization (OWWA) provides an assistance package called the Filipino Expatriate Livelihood Support Fund (FELSF) designed to focus on the safety and welfare of the overseas workers community affected by this catastrophe.

What is OWWA?
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) is an agency assigned to protect and uphold the rights and interests of the Philippines Overseas Workers.

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A good investment option for Overseas Filipino Workers, is putting your hard earned money in Mutual funds. A mutual fund is an efficiently supervised policy of communal outlay plans that pools cash from many shareholders and supply it in stocks, bonds, short-term money market implements, and/or supplementary securities. The mutual fund will encompass a fund supervisor that deals the shared money on a standard origin.

A Mutual fund is used as a broad expression for a variety of communal venture vehicles, for instance unit trusts; open-ended investment companies, unitized insurance funds, and undertakings for collective investments in transferable securities.

A good example of a mutual fund Investment option is the Metrobank Save and Learn Fund. The First Metro Save and Learn fund client can put in, in several kinds of securities.

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-Save and Learn Equity Fund
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