TFEM Issue 23

PINOY LIFE ABROAD

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Rodel Dioresma: Life in the high seas

Filipino seaman Rodel Dioresma shares the challenges of working on a yacht, how he bravely confronts these difficulties and rises above them. When Rodel Dioresma flew to Rotterdam to work on a…

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Raising Kids Abroad: Should We Still Teach Them Filipino?

When an Italian teacher told columnist Elisha Hidalgo that her child should only speak Italian, she re-evaluated the role of language in the lives of Filipino expat children, and made a plan…

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A Filipino’s escape from Afghanistan

A gripping story of how a Filipino military contractor saved fellow OFWs so that they could escape Kabul together, before the city fell into the hands of the Taliban when US and…

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Expat Living: Khartoum, Sudan

In Sudan, temperatures can go up 49 degrees Celsius, yet around 300 Filipinos work and live here. A Filipina teacher tells us her experiences as an expat living in Khartoum, Sudan. Working…

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