A total of 27 Filipinos will voluntarily fly out of Egypt tomorrow in light of the ongoing protest actions in the Middle Eastern country, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said.
Quoting the Philippine Embassy in Cairo, the DFA said the 13 women, five men and nine minors will be repatriated. Three are nurses from the Dar Al Fouad Hospital, while the rest are household service workers and Filipino scholars at the Al-Azhar University. The scholars will be joined by their families.
Sixteen Filipinos are from Cairo’s Maadi area, three are from the Dar Al Fouad Hospital in Giza, five are from Nasr City and one from Zamalek. Two are already at the Embassy’s Filipino Workers Resource Center, the DFA added.
These Filipinos are the first batch of those who availed of voluntary repatriation being conducted by the Embassy and the DFA.
The Embassy received assistance in making arrangements for the repatriates’ flights from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) offices in Cairo. The Filipino community organizations are also active in assisting the repatriates.
According to DFA figures, there are an estimated 6,000 Filipinos in Egypt where violent anti-Mubarak protests have erupted in recent days. - By Dennis Carcamo (Philstar News Service, www.philstar.com)
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