To help businesses recover from the impact of the pandemic, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), through the Small Business Corp. (SB Corp.) and JCI Makati’s UPLIFT launched the Helping the Economy Recover thru OFW Enterprise Start-ups (HEROES) Program. This program aims to teach, support, mentor and provide start iup funding for the new business of Filipino Oversees Workers (OFW) who were displaced due to the pandemic.

HEROES program is the candle of hope for expatriated displaced OFWs that enables them to rebuild based from their acquired skills, experience and passion.