The Philippine Village
Candaguit, Sibonga, Cebu
Why Should I Sponsor?
Love is the reason we are caring for the people of the Philippines. The unemployment rate is 60% and people over 30 years old are to old to get most jobs. Even a college education is required to work at McDonald’s or 7-Eleven. Employers are able to discriminate against height, weight, age, and looks. When most people look for a job they find they are too short, too fat, too thin, or too old.
If they do get a job, the pay averages $39 to $80 per month( depending on the exchange rate ). Imagine! This is working 8 hours a day, 6 days a week. This is not enough by which to live. Some people are fortunate enough to have a relative working overseas or living in America that will send them money, most are not. We can help change this situation by God’s Word and your help. Loving people that are in need, and caring about them like God does is why sponsor. Not everyone can give full sponsorship but anything you can give will be put with other peoples gifts.
In Cebu there are over 10,000 little girls working as prostitutes, some by circumstance, but most my force. We have got to help these kids. They need to see Gods love work, we will rescue as many as possible. Child Sponsorship – for $50 per month you can sponsor a child. Your donation will be used to provide food, cloths, shelter, and medical and dental care as needed. When you sponsor a child you will receive a picture and a bio of your child, as well as updates on the child’s progress. You will also so be able to send cards and gifts to your child.
Family sponsorship – for $140 per month you can sponsor a whole family. Your donation will be used to provide food, cloths, pay the electric and water bills, and medical and dental care as needed. You will receive a picture and bio on your family. You will also receive updates on their progress. You will be able to send cards and gifts to your family. We will be working directly with the family through Bible studies, job training. business start ups and more to help them become self supporting.
Widows or Widowers Sponsorship – for $75 per month you can sponsor a widow or widower. Your donation will be used to provide food, clothes, pay the electric and water bills, and medical and dental care as needed. You will receive a picture of your widow or widower and updates of their progress. We will provide anything they need done, from cleaning to taking care of their yard. We will love them as if it was our mother or father. You will be able to send cards and gifts.
The tourism boom in Central Visayas has carried with it a boom in human trafficking, an official of theDepartment of Social Welfare and Development said yesterday.
DSWD regional director Teodolo Romo, in a forum with members of the Association of Government Information Officers,said it has been a sad reality that trafficking of persons for prostitution has become the downside of a booming tourism industry inthe region.
An estimated 10,000 young females have been trafficked into sex slavery in Cebu,and 70 percent of them are minors, Romo said. He also presented somedata showing that the major areas where trafficking took place are Cebu City, and even hotels and beach resorts.
Romo further said that even the demand for younger prostitutes has increased. In the past, the ratio was only one minor ofevery ten trafficked women but now the figure is seven out of ten.
“The trend is really getting younger, I don’t know but there is this perversion that when one is engaged with a child, he is going to get the longevity and be invigorated,” Romo said.
Of the 96 trafficked victims rescued last year by the DSWD-7 from some parts of Central Visayas, 60 were minors, said Romo.
Romo asked for the cooperation from localities where there are tourist spots and where prostitutes are being pandered about. A tourism monitoring group must be created to check regularly the hotels, resorts, and spas.
The first convicted case on trafficking in Central Visayas,Romo said, was caught in a hotel where six minors were taken. He said his office is now watching the activities inside a spa outlet in Cebu where “extra services” are reportedly being offered to customers.
Trafficking, based on the United Nation’s Protocol, is the act of trading, transporting, and receiving of persons by means of threat or use of force.
This is also done by giving and receiving of payments or benefits to get the consent of a person having control over another person. The purpose of such act is exploitation.
The causes of trafficking, according to the UN presentation, are the presence of a demand by abusive employers or sexual exploiters and the availability of the supply, which are the victims.
These victims fall prey to trafficking due to poverty in the face of a promised higher standard of living elsewhere,weak social and economic structures, lack of employment opportunities,organized crime, violence against women and children, discrimination against women, government corruption, political instability, armed conflict and cultural conditions. —
The World Food Program has posted that 25,000 children a day die due to hunger related causes.
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Darold Dotson
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