4,495 of these displaced workers have returned to the Philippines, even as 408,771 job orders were approved in the period Oct 2008 to mid-June 2009 . It also reports that 1 ,1 14 displaced OFWs were given legal assistance and started undergoing conciliation (with 852 cases settled amounting to P15.7 million), while 2,500 others were just referred to agencies Migrante's monitoring based on news reports and its own network estimated 19,876 retrenched OFWs from 134 companies between October 2008 and February 2009 - with the largest concentration of displaced OFWs coming from Macau (11,806) and Taiwan (6,468). This includes the case of a29-year old Filipina who lost her job as a factory worker in Taiwan and returned home jobless, with no savings and facing debts accumulated from the effort to find work overseas. (See Box: Worker in Taiwan affected by the crisis) There have also already been newspaper reports of workers in Saudi Arabia and Dubai given forced leaves without pay for as long as three months and who have resorted to scavenging to survive, and of workers in Dubai working for three months but only being paid for the equivalent of one month. Box 1: Worker in Thiwan affected by the crisis Evanesa Valmadrid, a29 year old married woman with a four year old girl, comes from a poor peasant fa-ily in a province of Mindanao in the southern part of the Philippines. She is one of thousands of OFWs who lost their jobs in Taiwan in the wake of the global crisis that erupted in the last quarter of 2008. Her husband and then, when his earnings were still too low, Evanesa herself went to work in Taiwan, leaving their daughter in the care of her mother. Together they borrowed well over P200,000 to pay for their respective placement fees and other expenses. Evanesa found work in a factory of MIP International Manpower Services in July 2008 on a two-year contract where the salary she received was less than as stated in the contract less the broker's fee and other deductions. Three and a half months after starting work Evanesa and several other Filipina workers were abruptly terminated without notice because the company, management explained, was having financial difficulties due to the global crisis. They weren't given any separation pay and were only given airfare after they pressed for this. Evanesa said that she her displaced co-workers sought help from the Manila Exchange Cultural Office (MECO) of the Philippine govemment while in Taiwan but were just advised to accept the situation and go home. Back in the Philippines they approached the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) and 23