Blas F. Ople Policy Center & Training Institute

The Pag-IBIG Fund (or the Home Development Mortgage Fund) declared in its 2015 Annual Report that it succeeded in doubling its membership level in the last five (5) years and that its Members’ Savings collection increased by 9% compared with the previous year.  Pag-IBIG attributed these increases to its “intensified campaign to register household helpers and self-employed individuals.”   Domestic workers ... Read More »

September 29, 2016 "Perhaps, God wanted to raise the standards for His angels. Or divinity needed more pick-up lines. Whatever the reason, one of the country's most loved senators is now gone. Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago has shown the spiritual endurance of a leader elected by heart, and adored by many. The Senate, and our lives, will be boring without her. ... Read More »

September 15, 2016 The Blas F. Ople Policy Center, a non-profit organization that assists distressed migrant workers, called on the Department of Foreign Affairs to send an investigative team to the Philippine Mission to the United Nations in New York City to look into the alleged abusive behavior of Philippine Ambassador Lourdes Yparraguirre towards her household staff. According to the ... Read More »