Street Children
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Street children targeted by death squads for being "pests" to local traders in the market and suspected as pick pockets. Many have been executed, tortured and imprisoned. PREDA works to change this situation. |
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Image of poverty; children like this child are beggars on the streets of Philippine cities and are easy targets for pimps who lure them into child prostitution. |
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A small child is working in the rubbish dump of Payatas, Quezon City. Sorting the discarded plastic cups of a fast food chain. |
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Group of former street children at the PREDA Center, they are now recovered from abuse and are leading successful lives. |
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Street children in Davao city who joined father Shay Cullen and human rights activists protesting the shooting of street children by a death squad in the city. The victims of the brutal murders were the friends and companions of these children who Fr. Cullen helped by leading an international protest over the Internet to protest and stop the killings. The children in this photo are mourning the deaths of their friends. |
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Working children: One of the worst forms of child labor is scavenging in the rubbish dumps. These children will contract multiple diseases from the toxic waste and dirt of decaying food and animals on the garbage dump. Many these children likely perished in the avalanche that killed hundreds. |