“DON’T FORGET MOM. SEND MONEY HOME.”
That’s the chiding message, in all caps, from one of the many ads in Filipino newspapers, which can be found stacked in ethnic shops throughout many east Vancouver neighbourhoods.
The omnipresent ads promote a serious business. They encourage expatriate Filipinos to send their hard-earned money to struggling moms, dads, brothers, sisters and grandparents in their Southeast Asia homeland.
“Remittance” is a word heard often among Metro Vancouver’s 80,000-strong Filipino ...
