Seoul Tower
Incheon International Airport
Seoul Global Center
Development Action for Women Network (DAWN)
The
Development Action for Women Network
headed by Executive Director Carmelita Nuqui, Ms. Maryjoy Barcelona and
Ms. Gemma Comiso left the Philippines last August 26, 2016 @1:00 in the morning
for 4-hour flight to South Korea for the ASEAN-Korea Project: “Socio-Economic
Cooperation for Returned Filipino Women Migrants and their Children at the
Development Action for Women Network (DAWN)” The project aims to improve the
socio-economic well-being of Filipino women migrant returnees to become
financially independent to support their children and to provide assistance to
the women migrants for their reintegration in the Philippine society.
A
joint project with Ms. Gennie Kim a marriage migrant, actively involved in the
media, multi-cultural families, migrant counselor, and advocate for EPS workers
in Korea. The project phase 1 aims to provides exposure activity with the
different NGO’s and organizations for future partnership and possible Sikhay
market. Introduce Development Action for Women Network (DAWN) work for migrants
and their children thru media exposure. IOM Migration Research and Training
Center (IOM-MRTC) supports to bring out the best ideas for cooperative
development of ASEAN and Korea.
It was a 6-day event from August 26-30, 2016,
composed of meetings, visiting other NGOs sector and Filipino community to
further understand the needs of migrant workers and what are the deliverables
with-in the reach of the organization, and learn from other organization on how
to promotes the SikHay products.
