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===ReachOut Foundation International=== |
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Launched a comprehensive AIDS/STD prevention program targeting the brothel-based female sex workers and their partners in Angeles. Receives funding from USAID, PATH, and FHI. |
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===WEDPRO, The Philippines=== |
===WEDPRO, The Philippines=== |
Revision as of 09:58, 27 August 2007
There are numerous Charities in the Philippines operating of which many are both foreign and Philippine founded charities. The high level of foreign charities is due to the poor nature of the Philippine economy.[citation needed] Most Philippine founded charities also receive foreign aid and help in various forms.
SOS Children's Villages in the Philippines
The charity started its work in the Philippines in 1964. Today there are several communities where hundreds children are growing up as well as a number of SOS welfare and educational facilities providing assistance for the local communities. [1]
The Purple Rose Campaign
The "Purple Rose Campaign" Against Trafficking of Filipino Women and Children has helped bring International attention to the sex trade of Filipina women and children. The charity was founded on February 14th, 1997.[2]
ReachOut Foundation International
ReachOut has pioneered the concept of a one-stop shop reproductive health center that includes a medical clinic, pharmacy, laboratory and outreach education. [3]
The Philippine Children's Fund of America
Was created by the US and Philippine governments in 1991 to assist impoverished Filipino children of American ancestry by providing educational scholarships, employment and working visas to the United States. They have a Philippine office in Clark Field, Angeles City. [4][failed verification]
People’s Recovery Empowerment Development Assistance or Preda
A charitable organization that was founded in Olongapo City, Philippines in 1974. This small non-profit organization has a number of purposes which include the promotion and protection of the dignity and the Human Rights of the Filipino people, especially of women and children. The main focus is to assist the sexually-exploited and abused children. [5] Please see PREDA Foundation
Loving Care Street Kids Foundation
offers three free meals a day to impoverished children in Pampanga. The center also offers programs and events for social interaction, and helps children with their educational costs for tuition and school supplies.[6]
Bahay Bata Center
An institution taking care of orphans and abused children in Angeles. Many homeless street children are taken to the Bahay Bata Center. [7]
Visayan Forum Foundation
Established in 1991. The Project focuses on internal trafficking and the establishment and operation of halfway houses that directly provide temporary shelter, repatriation, referral, and counseling to intercepted victims of trafficking.[8]
Buklod Center
NGO in Olongapo City, Philippines, working to help women and children trafficked into prostitution. Provides a health clinic where women and families can come and do a health-check up. Seeks to promote the welfare of children.[9][10]
Tingog sa Kabataan
Tingog sa Kabataan (or Voice Of The Children) provides a forum for a group of youngsters, who have all themselves been victims of sexual abuse of one form or another. The aim - to warn youngsters of the dangers of being lured into the commercial sex trade. The programme is assisted by various NGOs in Cebu. [11] [12]
Salvation Army
The Reagional Headquarters for the Salvation Army is located in Manila. [13]
ECPAT Philippines
ECPAT Philippines is appointed by the Office of the President of the Republic of the Philippines as the NGO representative of the children's sector in the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT), amulti-sectoral council created by the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of2003 to monitor and coordinate the implementation of the law.[14]
CHILDHOPE ASIA PHILIPPINES
Originally founded in 1986. CHILDHOPE is an international, non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian organization. Provides help to children living on the streets as well as reducing the incidence of child prostitution.[15]
Tambayan Center
A child rights organization providing psychosocial support to abused and exploited adolescent street girls and their families.[16]
Virlanie Foundation Inc (VFI)
Founded in 1992. Operates residential homes providing shelter, food, education and love to thousands of disadvantaged children. Licensed and recognized by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). A member of the Philippine National Council Against Child Prostitution and of the Working Party On Children’s Rights working with the Department of Justice.[17]
Time-Bound Program
The Time-Bound Program (TBP) was launched in 2002. The programme will work toward the elimination of the worst forms of child labor in the Philippines.[18]Stopping the Trafficking of children for commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) purposes will be treated as a cross-cutting issue in the project. [19]
Bantay Bata
Bantay Bata 163 (BB 163) is the childcare program of the ABS CBN Foundation. Originally started as a hotline and rescue operation for children who were victims of the sex slavery trade it has grown to include Direct Child Protective Services, Residential Services Community and Family Support Services. [20] Please See Bantay Bata
Nagkakaisang Kababaihan ng Angeles(NAGKA)
Supports in organizing, educating, training, and developing micro enterprises for women. Co-founded by WEDPRO, and the Philippine Network Against Trafficking in Women (PNATW).[21]
CATW - Asia Pacific
In April 1993, the "Conference on Women Empowering Women: A Human Rights Conference on Trafficking in Asian Women" held in Manila, Philippines gave birth to the CATW - Asia Pacific. The Coalition conducts education/training for government officials, students and communities on violence against women, trafficking and prostitution including the Bantay Bugaw (Trafficker Watch) for the concerned local government offices and communities. [22]
WEDPRO, The Philippines
Women’s Education, Development and Productivity, Research and Advocacy Organization (WEDPRO), is a feminist organization committed to assist women victims of violence and all forms of sexual exploitation and to proactively end of all forms of gender-based violence. Since 2003, WEDPRO has maintained the Anti-VAW (Violence Against Women) Fund, which came principally from the proceeds of the STOP RAPE! STOP VAW! commemorative postal envelopes and wire sculptures. The commemorative envelope and logo were the winning entry in the International Stop Rape Contest organized by V-Day and Equality Now.[23]
Bagong Kamalayan Collective, Inc. (BKCI)
Founded in 2004 by survivors of the prostitution trade it provides help and support to the victims and survivors of the brutal human trafficking trade in the Philippines in places such as Manila, Angeles and Subic..[24][25]
References
- ^ http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/sponsor-a-child/asian-child-sponsorship/philippines.htm
- ^ http://www.gabnet.org/campaigns/purplerose/prc.html
- ^ http://www.reachout-foundation.org/
- ^ http://www.donatecarusa.com/charity-179.php
- ^ http://www.preda.org
- ^ http://ww2.pstripes.osd.mil/01/jun01/ed061901a.html
- ^ http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/pam/2007/01/10/news/36.street.kids.rounded.up.html
- ^ http://www.visayanforum.org/aboutus.php
- ^ http://www.peacewomen.org/contacts/asia/phillip/phi_index.html
- ^ http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/102231527.html
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1713865.stm
- ^ http://www.ecpat.net/eng/CSEC/good_practices/radio_philippines.asp
- ^ http://www1.salvationarmy.org/phl/www_phl.nsf?Open
- ^ http://www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_network/Groups/groups.asp?countryid=138®ionid=3&listSubregion=
- ^ http://www.childhope.org.ph/programs-and-projects.html
- ^ http://www.streetchildren.org.uk/organisation/?id=33
- ^ http://www.virlanie.org/
- ^ http://www.ilsdole.gov.ph/Publication/BataMan/Mar2003/bmm03_01.htm
- ^ http://www.humantrafficking.org/countries/philippines/best_practices
- ^ http://www.bantaybata163.com/history.asp
- ^ http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/mhvbt.htm
- ^ http://www.humantrafficking.org/organizations/301
- ^ http://www.vday.org/contents/vday/vcampaigns/amea/other
- ^ http://cpcabrisbane.org/Kasama/2005/V19n1/FilipinasSpeakAtUN.htm
- ^ http://www.preda.org/archives/research/digest/digest86.html