The National Health Weeks from Mexico are an annual program that mobilizes community clinics to offer a week of services aimed at the Mexican/Latin population with health promotions and programs designed for migrant groups. They provide information about available health services.
These RRTs include crisis management experts from different agencies who are trained and ready to be deployed to crisis-hit areas to bring the Filipinos out of harm's way.
The agreement, assures benefits to female migrant domestic workers (inclulding a day-off per week) and sasfeguarding them from abuse (e.g. deduction of hiring fees from salary payments).
The National Health Insurance Program was established to provide health insurance coverage and ensure affordable, acceptable, available and accessible health care services for all citizens of the Philippines. It is also mandatory for overseas workers to be covered by private medical insurance.
This Fund exists to cover assistance costs to help distressed Filipino migrants with repatriation, shipment of remains, hospitalization, temporary accomodation, food and basic supplies and other similar expenses.
This Act instituted the overseas employment polices. It established a higher standard of protection and welfare promotion for migrant workers, their families and overseas Filipinos in distress. It includes pre-employment orientation that allows 5 accredited NGOs to offer courses on entrepreneurship, business and finance management. The NGOs promote and protect migrant workers’ rights, as stipulated in the Act.
This is a Health care program in which either migrants or employers pay USD 20 for health care check-ups, USD 1 for co-payment for hospital visits and USD 43 for a one-year health insurance. This is the same benefit package as for Thai nationals that includes disease prevention, health promotion, work related disabilities, low-cost in- and out- patient hospital care, accident and emergency. The anti-viral drugs, to prevent mother to child or mother to fetus infections are also available.
Ghana operates a threetier social security system. The first two tiers are mandatory and the third is voluntary. Social security contributions are portable, that is they can be transferred from one social security scheme in one country to that in another country, and are to be paid in respect to both local and expatriate staff. The guidelines issued by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust exempt the following categories of expatriates from contributing to Tier 1:
The Welfare Fund for Migrant Workers ensures the welfare of migrant workers through pre-departure briefings, a welfare desk at the airport and language skills training for nurses, garment workers and hotel staff. This fund was created in 1990. The Wage Earners' Welfare Fund (WEWF) is a single trust fund pooled from the mandatory membership contributions of migrant workers, investment and interest income on these funds, and income from other sources. The WEWF's main purpose is to ensure the welfare of migrant workers by financing various activities.
The Tanzania's Employment Service Agency (TaESA) is an Executive Agency under the Ministry of Labour and Employment. Under this agency, and in order to better protect departing migrants, the Government of Tanzania organizes pre-departure training to migrants.
Apart from the provision of the above trainings, the TaESA has the main functions: