Preda Foundation, Inc. Introduction
Welcome to P.R.E.D.A, People's Recovery, Empowerment Development Assistance Foundation. We are a group of idealistic people working to save and heal abused children and exploited women. To oppose sexual abuse and sex trafficking and change society where this is a common practice. We challenge people of good will to act and help change society and encourage the authorities to respond and implement laws, do justice and protect the innocent and bring the guilty to justice and repentance.
PREDA'S IMMEDIATE MISSION: Working to win freedom and new life for children in jail, trafficked into brothels, living on the street, for abandoned youth, and those mired in poverty. We are helping battered women, indigenous people and protecting the environment.
Preda has a multi-project approach to dealing with the poverty and the exploitation and child abuse that comes from it. We are tackling the roots of the problem in various ways while responding positively and directly to rescue and help children be empowered and recover from abuse and neglect.
Preda helps as many as 150 children in the four of Preda children’s homes at any given time having rescued them from dire and difficult circumstances. We are providing direct care through high quality best practice programmes that give protection and a new start in life to many and give quality education to many more in the community.
Preda has a special child rescue team and a protected home for sex trafficked children and youth exploited in the brothel industry. It takes legal action to bring the suspected traffickers to justice and have their establishments closed by law enforcement officers. This is a risky work as some sex clubs are owned or protected by wayward police officers. Preda social workers have received threats for their efforts.
We also engage in advocacy and public awareness building and education about the trafficking of people into the sex industry and what can be done to stop it. Preventing abuse and sex trafficking is as important as changing the unjust practices, polices and systems that exploit and deny children and women their rights. We work to improve laws that protect human rights and indigenous people have them implemented justly.
Educational seminars invite and encourage the public to act justly to save children and youth to report abuse and to contact and avail of the Preda rescue and social services to give protection and therapy to abused kids. (www.preda.org). We lobby and challenge government officials to act to protect children and stop issuing permits and licenses to sex bars that assist the proliferation of the sex industry and child pornography.
Our services focus on helping children trafficked into prostitution and sold as sex slaves to local and foreign tourists and children in prison. We work with international law enforcement.
We work to prevent the spread of the HIV-Aids virus and help people to be educated about the virus and prevent infection and protect themselves.
We train youth in arts and advocacy theatre and they are ambassadors of advocacy and through powerful theatre performances they enlighten and encourage Filipino youth to get involved in helping others and once a year they travel abroad inspiring people to action.
Preda Fair Trade is exporting dried fruits (www.preda.net) and purees and handicrafts is a path to self-reliance for Preda. The sales makes possible the funding of development projects that are preventing and fighting child labour and exploitation in the work place, encouraging labour rights, providing interest free loans, markets access and just earnings and community development projects for producers. It is developing organic mangos.
We assist handicraft producers and small farmers throughout the Philippines prosper. We help the people and the environment by planting thousands of trees and providing help to indigenous people. By using recycled drink pouches to manufacture high quality backpacks , purses, wallets, and bags of every kind.
Changing the world. When you support Preda you are helping to change the world of poverty and bring light into the darkness, to replace misery with happiness, ignorance with enlightenment, imprisonment with freedom, hunger with prosperity and self reliance. Empowerment means Helping People to Help Themselves it is one of Preda's guiding mottos.
Join our work as a Defender of Children Rights. Welcome to the Preda Team and join in the work of supporting and implementing sensible, practical intelligent and well implemented programmes for children and adults in greatest need. Make life more meaningful for yourself and others. Order the Preda music CD and the DVDs about this work
CONTACT: Preda Center, Upper
Kalaklan,,Olongapo city,Philippines +63 47 223 96 29 to 30 fax
(+6347 ) 223 9628, and 222 5573
Email: predair@info.com.ph
Websites:
www.preda.org,
www.preda.net
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