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(PPD photo) MANILA - The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Wednesday launched its One Repatriation Center (One Repat-DMW) to provide immediate response to repatriation, welfare, and other concerns of distressed Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). "The One Repat-DMW will help ensure that distressed OFWs are given immediate assistance and are able to come home to their families and loved ones," DMW Secretary Susan Ople said in a statement. "In the past, OFWs and their loved ones had to knock on the doors of several government agencies to ask for help. It's heartbreaking to see families from the provinces traveling all the way to Manila, incurring needless debts and expenses, and dealing with long periods of anxiety while waiting for the response from government agencies," Ople explained. Ople said OFWs in distress, or their immediate families or next of kin, need only call the One Repat-DMW hotline "1-348" where a team of case officers, welfare office