ECPAT Philippines and Cebuana Lhuillier Join Forces to Combat Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children (OSAEC) Recognizing the pivotal role that Money Service Businesses (MSBs) play in combatting the Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children (OSAEC), ECPAT Philippines recently collaborated with Cebuana Lhuillier, a leading MSB in the country, to address this pressing […]
After initially helping 2,000 Typhoon Odette-affected households in Bohol in April-May 2022, the Humanitarian Cash Transfer Plus (HCT Plus) program by the Department of Social Welfare and Development, UNICEF Philippines, and ECPAT Philippines assisted 5,000 more families during the implementation of its second phase in July-December 2022. The continuation of the program was made possible with […]
The Humanitarian Cash Transfer Plus program by UNICEF, the Department of Social Welfare and Development, and ECPAT Philippines provided P5000 financial aid to over 2000 typhoon Odette-affected families in Bohol. The first batch of distribution took place in the municipalities of Tubigon and San Isidro from April-May 2022. Learn how this helped rebuild lives and […]
ECPAT Philippines and the local government of Laguna on July 15, 2021, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to institutionalize the eProtectKids internet hotline in the province’s annual plans and programs. eProtectKids is the Philippine member of INHOPE, an international association of internet hotlines that aims to quickly remove Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM) from […]
23 July 2020 In 2016, a British pedophile was convicted in his country for sexually abusing children during the 60s-80s. In 2018, it was learned that he also sexually exploited 5 boys in a poor town in the Philippines, where he had hidden for 10 years before getting caught. The youngest of the […]
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 […]