The Dreams OFWs Carry in Their Suitcases
Every Overseas Filipino Worker leaves the Philippines with two suitcases. One contains clothes, documents, instant noodles, dried fish carefully wrapped so immigration officers will not smell it from three countries away, and enough medicines to open a small pharmacy. The other suitcase is invisible. It carries dreams.
Dante A. Ulanday - Senior News Writer and Editor 
Every Overseas Filipino Worker leaves the Philippines with two suitcases.
One contains clothes, documents, instant noodles, dried fish carefully wrapped so immigration officers will not smell it from three countries away, and enough medicines to open a small pharmacy.
The other suitcase is invisible.
It carries dreams.
