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Children on the streets make up approximately 75% of the street children in the Philippines. They work on the streets but do not live there. They generally have a home to return to after working, and some even continue to attend school while working long hours on the streets. Children of the street make their homes on the street. They make up ...
The Manila Reception and Action Center (RAC) is a government-run shelter for street children in Manila, Philippines. The facility is located on Arroceros Street in the central district of Ermita. In October 2014 it was the subject of news reports alleging that children were being subjected to horrendous conditions tantamount to criminal abuse. [1]
Manila Boys' Town was founded on March 3, 1947. [1] As the name suggest it initially started as a residential care center for Manila's indigent male children from eight to sixteen years old. The complex eventually expanded to include Girls Home as the original facility's female counterpart but for girls as young as three, a Home for the Aged ...
More than a thousand families have been left homeless in the Philippines after a massive fire swept through a shanty community in Manila.
The sight of an elderly person begging for alms has become more common in Manila’s streets. It’s not clear how many elderly are homeless, but the number of Filipinos aged 60 and above has ...
A Million Voices (AMV) is a non-profit charity organisation based in Arendal, Norway, but operating in Manila, Philippines.The organisation, founded in December 2007 by then 21-year-old student Charlotte Isabel Johansen, is a non-governmental organisation (NGO), and receives no subsidies from any governments or political parties.
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In terms of addiction, inhalants are ordinary household products such as cleaners, cooking sprays, fabric protectors, paint thinner, and adhesives and solvents.Because of the low cost of Rugby and other inhalants, poor people (especially inexperienced and destitute youths) use them to relieve hunger pangs and common poverty health problems. [4] “