Story of Kaye Kaye comes from a family of 8 siblings. She grew up in a depressed community in the Metro Manila area. When she was 17 years old, she was recruited during summer while staying with her cousin on vacation in another community. The neighbor and friend of the cousin offered her a job […]

Story of Lovely Lovely comes from an island community that is part of a major tourist destination in the Philippines. Her father is a fisherman and her mother is employed as a laundry woman for a major resort on the island. The family consists of four other siblings with Lovely being second to the youngest. […]

Story of Maria Maria was born to a family in a slum in the Metro – in a community where violence, drug dealing, and prostitution are daily affairs. Affairs in which her mother was highly involved. At the age of 12, so was Maria. It started when she was given as a “birthday gift” to […]

When boys are sexually exploited “I was treated like a pig” 16-year-old Patrick (not his real name) told an ECPAT social worker in an interview. He was one of the 30 boy victims of a British national who lived in their community for 10 years. “I am ashamed, and I didn’t like it. I only […]

Surviving School: Survivors of childhood sexual exploitation share the struggles and joys of graduating “I wasn’t able to focus on my studies when I was still at home – I needed to work, help put food on the table.” Myra recalled of the time when she was only 12 years old, living with her mother […]

Young advocates in the Philippines pay tribute to survivors of child sexual exploitation in spoken poetry The ECPAT Children and Youth Advocates (EYCA) held a spoken poetry event dubbed as Sumama at Mamulat Laban sa Child Trafficking (Join and be Aware on the Fight Against Child Trafficking) on July 28, 2018 at the Quezon City […]