Overseas Filipinos feel heartache over missing parcels for loved ones, demand answers

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Overseas Filipinos are seeking answers about balikbayan boxes sent to family and charities in the Philippines that have gone missing. The parcels typically contain gifts and household goods sent home for Christmas.

At this time of year, Fatima Ramos would normally be preparing her balikbayan boxes. Overseas Filipinos typically fill these boxes with gifts, clothes, food and household items to send to their loved ones back home in the Philippines for Christmas. Ramos has previously sent the tax-exempt parcels to her family and Philippine charity organisations from Abu Dhabi, where she works as a domestic worker. Now back in the Philippines, Ramos is seeking answers about the parcels she sent last year, some...