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The History of the Work of Preda


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History of Preda’s Work

COMBATING CHILD PROSTITUTION AND DOMESTIC SEXUAL ABUSE

Protecting the dignity of children and women is a primary goal of the Preda Foundation and it takes a stand against the abuse and exploitation of children and women and provides legal assistance, shelter, and therapy for the minors. The help provided was financially supported by donations and through alternative employment in the Preda Fair Trade handicraft industries.

Today humanitarian Christian social services in the Preda Main center at Upper Kalaklan, outside Olongapo City is providing seminars, training, counseling and legal protection services to women and children in immediate need. For long term care a residential home for girl children staffed by professional Filipinos at Pamatawan, Subic helps the sexually abused and exploited children. A home for boys rescued from jails in Metro Manila and Luzon is situated nearby in Castellijos.

In 1969 Fr.Shay Cullen an Irish missionary priest was assigned by the Missionary Society of St. Columban to Olongapo City in the parish of St. Joseph. He encountered many young people in the school with family problems of broken homes due to the presence of the US Military base on Subic Bay and the prostitution industry it created. He saw the human suffering of dire poverty in the slums and the thousands of women and children exploited in bonded labor in the sex bars.

The only employment industry in the city besides a job in the Naval base was the sex business. It promoted the sexual exploitation of women and children, and Hiv-Aids, venereal disease, drug abuse and broken homes and crime was the result .The rich business bar and hotel operators and the politicians made much money out of this human trafficking and drug abuse.

Fr. Shay responded to help the young people, mostly former male students, dependent on the use of medications and illegal substance and he established PREDA, People Recovery Empowerment Development Assistance Foundation in 1974. The first project was at Upper Kalaklan, a residential home, a rehabilitation sanctuary, outside the city that was an open center without guards or walls or fences. It provided a safe environment, a therapeutic community based on affirmation, dignity, respect, Emotional Expression Therapy, education, and family reconciliation. It helped hundreds of young people avoid jail and gave them a new happier start in life.

A handicraft training and manufacturing enterprise was established to provide employment for out-of-school youth and an supporting sustainable income for the home. Today this sustainable endeavor set up by Fr.Shay is focused on helping small farmers and indigenous people market their organic and conventional mango fruit. Any proceeds from the sale of the products goes to support the homes for abused children. (See www.predafairtrade.net)

The prostitution of children
Child Following the discovery in 1982 by Father Shay of a large number of children commercially sexually exploited by local and US service men; some of the children were as young as 9 year old he exposed it in the media. The city administration was angry at the expose and gathered petitions to have him deported and they moved to close the Preda home.

Instead of closing the Preda home Fr.Shay proposed closing the US military base to end the sex industry, end sex tourism, drug trafficking and provide an economic zone with jobs and dignity and save thousands of young people from a life of exploitation and misery. He wrote extensively about it in his weekly column in a national newspaper. It was considered preposterous and a ridiculous idea, it was unthinkable for the city to survive without the US Naval Base. Fr.Shay was the subject of criticism and false charges of libel due to his speaking out against child abuse, rescuing of child victims from pedophiles, filing criminal charges against them and his criticism of the sex mafia and human trafficking of women and children. He campaigned to convert the military bases to a commercial zone.

His vision was to call for the transformation of the military facility and an end to massive sexual exploitation of women and children, which was the only source of employment in Olongapo City. The abusive shameful industry had to be removed and an alternative was proposed. Fr. Shay proposed removing the Military base and converting the facilities into commercial business with light manufacturing, educational facilities and family tourism. He proposed a six-point conversion plan. With an empowered team of Filipino women and male staff of the Preda Foundation, the advocacy campaign to replace the military base and close down the sex industry and restore the dignity of the Filipinos began in 1983.

It was an almost impossible idea it was met with laughter and derision .The military Naval base covered vast area and house as many as 5000 US servicemen and their families. It serviced and repaired the ships of the 7th Fleet. This fleet of ships made regular calls at Sub Bay and thousands of sailors came into the city to party. It had been there since 1989 after the American –Spanish war. It played an important role in the WWII and the Korean war. US foreign policy to the Philippines centered on retaining the 13 US bases scattered throughout the Archipelago removing them was unthinkable and the US paid President Ferdinand Marcos huge sums for their retention and overlooked his violation of human rights.

The municipal and city mayors of Olongapo, Angeles and other towns were key partners in providing entertainment and welcome to the sailors and airmen that came visiting with the fleet. The politicians gave operating permits and licenses to the sex clubs and bars. When Father Shay and the Preda social workers investigated and discovered that the children had been sexually exploited and sold to sailors and local sex offenders the reaction by the authorities was strong.

Despite efforts by the authorities to hide the child victims and put pressure on Father Shay to cover up the awful truth and ignore the terrible crime against children and the Filipino people Fr.Shay went public and reported this heinous crime in the press. As a writer and media commentator, he has a wide audience in the Philippines and internationally. The pedophiles and human sex traffickers were not investigated and no one was charged at the time. Thanks to the support of Filipinos and international solidarity groups who campaigned for him the corrupt officials failed to have Fr.Shay deported.

One American naval officer, a suspect in the abuse other children was made a kind of scrape goat for many others. He was flown out of the Philippines after the expose. He was put on trial in Guam for the sexual abuse of the children and received only a light sentence despite the many victims. The attitude of the Americans then, it seems, was that child abuse was a practice among Filipinos and was the done thing and not criminalized by law. But they were wrong. It was and is a heinous crime and nowadays after the awareness campaign led by Preda Foundation many child sex abusers, Filipinos and foreigners alike, go to jail with a life sentence. They retaliate against Preda with libelous internet posts and false baseless accusations. Preda has defeated and won all its cases.

While rescuing children from this sex slavery and treating them, Preda staff had to look for the root causes of this evil and deal with these causes. The world of depravity, uncontrolled sexual desires, the promotion of sexual gratification as a commodity, the sex industry and sex bar business promotes promiscuousness, unfaithfulness, broken marriages, and dysfunctional homes.

US military bases were the prime cause of these huge social and family problems. It took many years of campaigning by Preda Foundation to help organize opposition. We at Preda proposed and campaigned to change the Subic Bay military facilities into economic export zones with a low tax rate and it worked. The US Naval Base in Subic Bay, Olongapo was closed down in 1992 after a historic vote by the Philippine Senate not to renew a treaty agreement with the United States to allow the bases. History was made by the anti-bases coalition that was begun by Preda Foundation by exposing the child sex industry and proposing the closure of the US Naval Base and its conversion to an economic zone. The sex industry also closed down. It was a big victory for justice and decency.

Success of the campaign
Today, hundreds of manufacturing companies have invested at Freeport zones and 80,000 Filipinos have dignified jobs in Subic Bay Freeport Zone and also as many at the Clark economic zone that was once home to the US Air Force Base. Great damage had been done to the moral fiber and family values of the surrounding Filipino communities. Child abuse was growing in families and the villages and towns.

The revival of the sex industry
Three years after the removal of the US bases, the Filipino authorities allowed the reopening of the sex bars and clubs by international mafia, gambling syndicates and most customers today are overseas sex tourists and traveling sex offenders coming to the Philippines from many countries. That is the present problem now. We at Preda are expanding our services and opposing this great evil of human trafficking, drug abuse in the sex bars and sex tourism that is again sexually exploiting Filipino children and young women. We need international pressure on the Philippine authorities to implement the law and close the sex industry once and for all.

Sex tourists going to Southeast Asia and other places develop a depraved appetite for child sex and then return to their own countries and become abusers of the children in their own country. Some even abuse their own children.

Preda campaigns against the growing sex industry
Today, a direct result of the sex industry clubs and bars are spreading with impunity in the towns and villages of the Philippines. Officials are ignoring the problem. Sexual exploitation is spreading among the Filipino communities and the legal and moral prohibitions have broken down. Even local officials today act as negotiators between child abusers and parents to arrange a financial settlement when the child has been raped or abused. The official earns a percentage of the payment. The child is left without help and the pedophile goes free to abuse other children.

Preda educators and social workers are working daily in these villages to provide seminars for the people teaching the law and showing that this amicable settlement is illegal and the child must be helped and brought to a safe home for victims of abuse.

Our Preda Home for Girls has many children in residential care and recovery. We help them recover by providing a caring and supportive environment with protection. We also help them heal by encouraging them to cry out their pains through emotional expression therapy. The deeply buried emotional pain and suffering they hide inside is opened and brought out. The emotional pain is eased and the anger is removed and psychological healing can begin.

Many children have recovered and are reintegrated to their families when it is safe for them. Some have succeeded in past years and finished college and today are Preda social workers and psychologists helping the new child victims at the Preda children’s home.

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