The United States is home to the most Filipinos living outside the Philippines, but Saudi Arabia comes in second place. Roughly 1 million Filipinos live and work in the kingdom. The COVID-19 pandemic has put many of these migrant workers in a difficult situation. As The World’s Patrick Winn reports, they’re going online to call attention to their plight.
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