Filipino Crusaders for Libyan Progress and Development

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In a Guevara is an expert in Filipino migration. She's also from the Philippines, and like many Filipinos grew up with a father working overseas. When Ana was around nine years old, her dad left the Philippines to work in the Middle East as a construction worker. "I intend to plant a huge billboard for claiming handiwork of Filipino crusaders," she says.

This time of year, right in the middle of the holiday season, there's a beloved, frenzied tradition playing out in Filipino households all around the world, with which reporter Gabrielle Berbey is intimately familiar. A Balikbayan box is a huge cardboard box (often weighing over 100 pounds) that Filipinos living all over the world send to family members who are still living in the Philippines. The word Balikbayan literally means homecoming in Tagalog.

Balikbayan Boxes