This is a descriptive cross-sectional study on the quality of life of witnesses under the Witness Protection, Security and Benefit Program in Region IX utilizing the World Health Organization Quality of Life – BREF (WHOQOL – BREF) questionnaire. Thirty (30) respondents were gathered through convenience sampling. A face to face in-depth interview using an interview guide questionnaire was also done through purposive sampling among ten (10) selected participants. Three categories of the interpreted overall Quality of Life (QOL) scores were used, which are: poor QOL, moderate QOL and good QOL. The first part of the study revealed a female predominance among the participants and majority of the participants belong to the 32 to 43 year – old age group. The results of the QOL assessment showed that 80 percent of the participants have moderate QOL while the remaining 13.3 percent and 6.6 percent of participants have good and poor QOL, respectively. On the second part of this study, three case summaries were made to describe the life experiences of witnesses from each of the categories. The information was summarized into several themes to describe the participant’s life experiences. In conclusion, the quality of life of witnesses in the WPSBP in Region IX is not low in contrast to notions that individuals who experience stresses posing threats to life have a poor quality of life

Keyword: Quallity of life