Pinoy Connect on Yahoo!
Overseas Filipino workers now have a website specifically designed to help them stay in touch with their families and friends back home. Pinoy Connect, which was recently established by Yahoo!, aims to assist communication between members of Filipino families who are living apart. Yahoo! Southeast Asia’s managing director, Reza Bernham described the site as “first of its kind… very Filipino-centered”.
The Web site provides Internet-based communications like chat rooms, mobile services, news and other information that are available to registered users, he added. “Users can register to receive partner updates via email or [short message service] and invite friends to sign-up, too.”
Bernham said Pinoy Connect has been developed in part from the results of a recent global research study conducted by the company, which showed that 33 percent of Filipinos use instant messaging to communicate with their families.
There’s not a lot of content on the site yet, because it’s still very new (just launched this week). I’m sure this will be a great resource for Filipinos all over the world. For those who are not yet well-versed on how the internet works, don’t despair! Yahoo! is said to be producing and distributing instructional guides to help those who want to use the site to keep in touch.
[Source: ABS-CBN]
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to all pilipino who?not working in outside our country dont think we are earning easily money is verry dificulty to work in onather country no happiness her only trabaho bahay kain not injoying and easy no realy to earn money
i have a brother in berlin studying and working at the same time, for four years it wasn’t easy for him,
and for us. he took odd jobs just to make ends meet and i pity him. he’s making a lot of money in his job here in manila but tried his luck abroad, he had dreams not only for himself but for our whole family. i think about him always and wished that his dreams come true one day.
For me, working abroad is not the only solution of poverty here in our country. We should start doing it by training ourselves that we can fight poverty if we really wanted it to stop. Go, Pinoy, Fight poverty, fight for your right.