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Welcome to the Website of PREDA Foundation, Inc.
People's Recovery, Empowerment Development
Assistance Foundation.
PREDA'S IMMEDIATE MISSION: Winning freedom and a new life for
children in jails, in brothels, in hunger, on the street, abandoned
youth and those mired in poverty. Helping abused women, indigenous
people, protecting the environment and alleviating poverty through
micro-credit and fair trade initiatives.
Preda is a Philippine human rights and social development
organization working for 34 years through fair trade practices to
help the poorest and most vulnerable people in society and to
overcome injustice and poverty. There is a professional Filipino
staff of 88 implementing the 12 projects of Preda. (See:
www.preda.org) read
more...
READ MORE:
The Twelve (12) Projects of Preda
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2009 Human Rights
Report: Philippines
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THE WEIMAR
DECLARATION
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Anti-Child Pornography Act
of 2008
* Convention on
the Rights of the Child
* Preda report on
Juvenile Justice System
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My first encounter with death by starvation was in Olongapo City many years ago when I was called out to bless a dead child. I was led to the hovel made of cartons and plastic sheet where the three year old was about to be buried. Read more...
PHOTO: The Preda staff together with Volunteers from different Countries help feed street children, a new program by the Preda Foundation.
Preda has launched a new Fair-trade sharing project to help the farm workers of small mango farmers in far-flung villages in Davao, Mindanao and Botolan, Zambales. Read more...
PHOTO: One of 50 Tri-Bikes being distributed to mango farm workers.
Last June, I traveled widely in Mindanao. I traveled first across parts of Northern Mindanao to Gingoog City in a space of three hours and passed about 20 giant trucks stacked high with logs destined to the plywood mills or to the ships for export. Read more...
PHOTO: Decades of illegal logging, unusually high rainfall and geography have all contributed to the devastation wrought by storms that have lashed the Philippines, the government and environmentalists say.
Shocking details of techniques used to inflict pain deliberately on children in privately run jails have been revealed for the first time in a government document obtained by the Observer. Read more...
PHOTO: Carol Pounder from Burnley, whose 14-year-old son Adam Rickwood was found dead at Hassockfield secure training centre in County Durham in August 2004. Photograph: Christopher Thomond
