To say that Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) keep not only their families but also the Philippine economy afloat is an understatement. In 2016 alone, the hardworking OFWs were recorded to have remitted a total of $26.9 billion. If that’s not astonishing enough, the amount actually made up 9.8-percent of the country’s gross domestic product for the same year.

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