Topic: Street Children
The Walk to Freedom and Dignity
April 19, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The day he walked to freedom was a happy day in the life of fourteen-year-old Miguel. For months he had been detained in the Parañaque jail, accused of stealing a pair of flip-flops, worth no more than 50 cents. He was, at first locked in an overcrowded cell that was a living hell of squashed [...]
Read More...Poverty strangles city children – UN report
March 2, 2012 · By NEIL A. ALCOBER CORRESPONDENT
HUNDREDS of millions of children in cities across the world are growing up in poverty and enduring deprivation, according to a report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) released on Tuesday. The report said that many children living in urban areas go through, which are in many cases concealed by statistical averages in which [...]
Read More...Can the Guilty Rich Repent?
September 28, 2011 ·
The photograph of Juanito, a street boy, 14, dressed in nothing but dirty shorts, his only earthly possession. He was poverty personified.
Read More...The Nature of Love
January 5, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
One of the biggest problems that is facing some poor developing nations is over population. It is brought about by poverty stemming from social inequality, injustice, the capture and concentration of the national resources and wealth in the hands and pockets of a few super rich elite. Rich countries on the other hand have shared [...]
Read More...Child Protection is Still a Low Priority
October 15, 2010 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Trafficking of street children for sexual exploitation is a heinous crime in most countries but flourishes nevertheless and it is difficult to get accurate figures since most of it is done in secret. However, estimates say that over 2 million are trafficked in Asia every year. Police and social services are inadequately trained, have low [...]
Read More...The Sexual Abuse of Children
October 9, 2008 ·
The Speech of Fr Shay Cullen as he received the THE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY PRIZE. AWARDED BY THE PRESTIGIOUS WORLD MEDICAL CHILD CARE ASSOCIATIONS HEADED BY PROMINENT PROFESSORS AND GYNECOLOGISTS.
Read More...Preda Newsletter July 2006
July 3, 2006 ·
Four of the boys at Preda who finished the Alternative Learning System program of the Department of education proudly display their certificates As I write this, the Philippines is being battered by the seasonal typhoon. The raging winds and torrential downpours of rain spread floods, electric power failure, traffic disruption and the cancellation of school [...]
Read More...PLAYING OUT THE FEAR FROM THEIR SOULS
November 13, 2001 ·
by Frank Mischo They were humiliated, used, and treated like animals. For many of these Philippine girls and boys, after doing ‘business” in shabby hotel beds and backstreets, life seemed to be practically at an end before it had really begun. They had seen too much, given too much, had too much fear. Some of [...]
Read More...Program Assists In Removing Children Working In Trash Dumps
April 2, 2001 ·
UNICEF released a report showing that through its program “Children in the Dump Never Again,” 13,230 children have been removed from working in city trash dumps. The program gives income assistance to the parents of the children so that the children can go to school. The program also helps set up after-school programs to keep [...]
Read More...Statement of Fr. Sean Purcell,
February 8, 2001 ·
Feb 1 & 2 were very interesting days in Davao. This was the climax of the libel case filed by Mayor Benjamin De Guzman against Fr. Shay Cullen, the Columban priest of PREDA, Olongapo. Fr Cullen was to be arraigned for this case before Judge Robillo in Sala 13 of RTC. The case was filed [...]
Read More...Sexual Abuse, Sexual Exploitation, and the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Indonesia
January 1, 2001 ·
This is an extract of a report prepared for Indonesia, which commissioned a study on the situation of the children in especially difficult circumstances covering the issue of child labour, street children and sexually exploited children. The Indonesian version of this report was published soon. Mohamman farid, the author of this report has given his consent to this extracted version.
Read More...Prosecutor’s Resolution
April 25, 2000 ·
R E S 0 L U T I 0 N
This is a complaint for Libel filed by Davao City Mayor Benjamin C. de Guzman against Father Shay Cullen, an Irish Catholic Missionary and the President and Executive Director of People’s Recovery, Empowerment and Development Assistance (PREDA) Foundation Inc., based in Olongapo City.
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