The Catholic Church’s migrants commission on Wednesday expressed grief over the death of Susan “Toots” Ople, the secretary of the Department of Migrant Workers. “We lost a hero,” said Bishop Ruperto Santos, vice chairman of the Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People of the Catholic…
The Catholic Church’s migrants commission on Wednesday expressed grief over the death of Susan “Toots” Ople, the secretary of the Department of Migrant Workers.
“It is a sad news, a very sad occasion especially for our OFWs [overseas Filipino workers]. Her heart is completely for them. Her whole life is for our country,” he said.Ople was the first secretary of the DMW, a government agency formed last year to protect the rights and promote the welfare of about two million OFWs.
With a heart for the OFWs, Susan Ople founded the Blas F. Ople Policy Center and Training Institute in 2004, a nongovernment organization focused on helping OFWs and combatting human trafficking. News reports say she was already in remission from breast cancer when she was appointed as DMW head in 2022.
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