Summer expo for OFW, SME families

The Pamilyang Overseas Filipino Workers-Small and Medium Entrepreneurs Network Foundation Inc. (POFW-SMENFI) announced yesterday that the 4th Pamilyang OFW-SME Summer Expo – which is slated this Friday (March 27) and Saturday (March 28) at the Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC) – will feature a local and overseas jobs fair and free seminars on jobs, livelihood, investment and business opportunities.

The FTTC is strategically located in Roxas Boulevard corner Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Pasay City, and is an ideal venue for trade expositions.The summer expo is the first of four major events organized by the POFW-SMENFI (with Web site address: http://www.pamilyangofw-sme.com) this year at the PTTC. The others are the 8th Pamilyang OFWs-SMEs Expo (June 12 to 13); 6th Filipino Seafarers Family Expo & Forum and 5th Pamilyang OFWs-SMEs Housing and Home Essentials Trade Fair (Sept. 18 to 19); and 4th Pamaskong Handog sa Pamilyang OFWs at SMEs (Dec. 18 to 19). With the expo’s theme “Transformation of OFW Families into Entrepreneurs is a Solution to Global Financial Crisis,” the main objective of the event is to make the country’s more than 8 million OFWs and their families, the 475,000 plus SME families as well as those involved in the overseas employment and small and medium enterprise industries aware of the various job, livelihood, investment and business opportunities being offered by the private, government, and non-government organization sectors. The exhibitors which signed up recently include ACL Beauty and Wellness Inc., Activeworks Manpower, Al Alamia, American English Skills Dev’t., Banco de Oro-Asset Management, Body Worx Spa and Fitness, GenServe Solutions, I-Cope, Julie’s Franchise Corp., Magnificat Ventures, MTN Marketing, Oro Laboratories, Planters Bank, PR Bank/Agri Bank, Ralyanna Marketing Inc., RonRox Corp., Shady Cosmetigue Laboratory, Star Group of Companies, Subic Holiday Villas, Taytan Infl Corp., TKRL Realty & Dev’t Corp. and Vacation Club Int’l.