Topic: Child Detention
Pope Francis must speak on children’s rights
January 25, 2015 ·
Pope Francis must speak on children’s rights.Fr.Shay Cullen Pope Francis in his New years message gone beyond pious platitudes and spoken out on the root causes of human trafficking and slavery and call on all people of good will to be part of the solution. There has to be many more people acting against this […]
Read More...CAMPAIGN POSTER TO CLOSE THE CRUEL AND DEGRADING CENTER IN MANILA
November 10, 2014 ·
CAMPAIGN POSTER TO CLOSE THE CRUEL AND DEGRADING CENTER IN MANILA contact www.preda.org , [email protected] RAC, the ‘Reception & Action Center’ Manila, is a shelter run by the City of Manila for children and adults. Every day children from all over Manila, particularly those without safe family environments, are ‘rescued’ and taken to RAC. […]
Read More...Saving and healing the jailed children of poverty
October 31, 2014 ·
October 31, 2014 by Father Shay Cullen Ricardo, 13, was squatting at the corner of an overcrowded cell, his head was resting on his knees and his hands covered his head. He was hiding his child-like face. It was a defensive posture for self-protection. He was a youth prisoner without being charged and with no […]
Read More...Miles de menores languidecen en precarios centros de detención de Filipinas
September 30, 2014 ·
Vida | 23/09/2014 Helen Cook Manila, 23 sep (EFE).- Miles de menores filipinos languidecen en precarias celdas de los centros de detención del país, adonde son trasladados tras ser arrestados por la Policía y donde permanecen durante meses en pésimas condiciones. Según cifras del Servicio de Prisiones Jesuita de Filipinas, unos 20.000 menores pasan […]
Read More...The most important in the Kingdom
September 19, 2014 ·
September 6, 2014 10:44 pm Recently I was talking to a group of forty young boys who had been taken out of filthy jails and sub-human conditions in the so-called youth detention centers of Metro Manila. I told them, “You are the children of God and the most important in God’s family. That’s why […]
Read More...An Austrian volunteer visits a Manila Jail with Preda social workers.
August 19, 2014 ·
Pia Nenning from Hittisau, Austria June 2014 Preda Volunteer I joined the trip to Manila to attend the court hearing of Sammy, the home visit of RJ and a visit to the Jail where we rescued four boys. Since I never have been in a jail before, that part already has been very interesting for […]
Read More...Over 500 children found at vermin-infested shelter in Mexico
July 31, 2014 ·
The raid was ordered after more than 50 complaints were filed against Verduzco for holding people against their will.
Read More...Path to Freedom
July 15, 2014 ·
by: Father Shay Cullen July/August 2014 Far East Magazine (Magazine of the Columban Missionaries) As if the upheaval, death and destruction of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) was not enough suffering for up to a million survivors, we are trying to protect the children and orphans among them from exploiters and traffickers. For example, Reggie, 17, is […]
Read More...THE PLUNDER AND ITS CHILD VICTIMS
August 23, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen It’s a happy day when we can save children from abusers, illegal detention, brothels, or from the clutches of traffickers, sex tourists or child porn makers. We at the Preda Foundation do that a lot but why is it so necessary in a so-called Catholic civilized country under the rule of law? And […]
Read More...Street Children Locked Up
August 12, 2013 ·
Fr. John Keenan | November 1, 2012 To compound the trauma, the children are herded into sub-human conditions, small children along with big teenagers in an atmosphere of fear and trepidation. Such crammed conditions can spawn all kinds of abuse, introduction to vice and fights among the children. They are only allowed out for half […]
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