So you're leaving home to work abroad?

Don't leave home without this little book.

It is an expert, light-hearted and compassionate guide to overseas contract work addressed directly to you, the Overseas Filipino Worker leaving the country for the first time.

It was written by a bright young woman who has, in the course of her managerial career at the Department of Foreign Affairs and with the Department of Labor and Employment, seen so many OFW misadventures, and who sincerely wishes none of them to befall you. Undersecretary Toots Ople takes you by the hand, from the day you first apply to work abroad, and walks you through all the stops and byways along the way, ensuring you avoid every pitfall-or pratfall-likely to waylay you.

With this book in hand, you need not be an Innocent Abroad even if Tagaytay Ridge is the farthest you've ever been from home.

How do you ensure your 'recruiter' isn't just a sweet-talking and heartless swindler? Ituturo niya sa iyo ang pagkilatis ng mga taong makakatagpo mo sa iyong paghahanap ng mapapasukan.

She guides you through the paper work of passport, visa and work contract. She helps you pack your bag. And she boards the plane with you. She's with you in transit, helps you with the disembarkation processes, and tells you what to do if you lose your luggage--or if your 'sundo' does not get to you.

She's even got experts on the scene, our diplomats and labor attaches, to tell you what to expect at your destination. And she has thoughtfully added answers to the questions OFWs most often ask, as well as the contact addresses of the Filipino missions which are your lifelines while abroad.

Toots Ople is on your side all the way. Believe her when she tells you that, while the streets of the Middle East, Singapore or Tokyo, are not paved with gold, you can make all your sacrifices--and those of your family, pay off if, when you return home, you put the money you saved to the best use.

And, she say, don't hurry off again. Stay home for a while; enjoy your fam ily and this country that raised you.

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