145 more Bangladeshis return from Saudi Arabia
A flight of Saudi Airlines SV-804 carrying the workers landed at the airport at 12:15pm
Some 145 more Bangladeshi migrant workers returned home from Saudi Arabia on Saturday.
A flight of Saudi Airlines SV-804 carrying the workers landed at the airport at 12:15am.
Brac Migration Programme provided emergency help to the returnees with the assistance of the expatriate welfare desk.
Chief of Brac Migration Programme Shariful Hasan said, "Brac is providing counselling, training and financial support for the returnees so that they can turn their life around."
The government and private organisations have to work together in this regard, he added.
A total of 5,500 Bangladeshi expatriates have returned home from Saudi Arabia in the last one and a half months, according to Brac Migration Programme.
According to data from Expatriate Welfare Desk, a total of 64,638 Bangladeshi workers have returned home in 2019.