Overseas Filipino workers help to improve their families' lives, but often with great sacrifice

Arlyn Nucos was one of the two Filipina domestic workers killed in the Dec 29 car crash near Lucky Plaza shopping centre in Singapore. She was from the coastal town of Caba in La Union. It's one of the Philippine provinces that has the most number of households in the country dependent on overseas labour for income. At one point in the past decade, one out of every 16 adults from La Union was working abroad. Overseas Filipino workers help to improve their families' lives and boost the local economy, but often with great sacrifice.

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