The Share A Child Movement provides education, training opportunities, and child rights advocacy for the most vulnerable and impoverished women and children of Cebu, the Philippines, giving them the opportunity to free themselves from the risk of abuse and exploitation and to create safer, brighter futures for themselves and their families.
The challenge(s) that The Share A Child Movement is addressing:
In the Philippines nearly 23% of the population lives on less than $1.25 a day—and desperate conditions in many rural areas and urban slums make women and children particularly vulnerable to the threat of being trafficked. Lured by promises of attractive jobs with good incomes, between 400,000 and 500,000 girls and women, mostly poor and uneducated, are trafficked each year in the Philippines. These girls and women frequently become victims of modern slavery in various forms: prostitution, sexual tourism, pornography, forced labor, and domestic enslavement. Owing to its central location in the Filipino archipelago and its status as a growing metropolis with thousands of rural migrants, Cebu has become an international hub for this appalling and illegal industry.
By providing education and child rights advocacy and by helping to create new, local livelihoods, The Share A Child Movement works to ensure that vulnerable children and young women gain the knowledge, skills, and support they need to protect themselves from the severe dangers of poverty and build better futures for themselves and their families.
You can be a changemaker!
- By supporting The Share A Child Movement, you can give young Filipina girls and women in Cebu the chance to break out of the cycle of poverty. Even a modest donation could protect a vulnerable young girl from traffickers and provide her with vocational training and computer literacy courses that will enable her to find a safe, healthy job in the city.
- You can make a huge difference in the lives of these young women and girls by empowering them to earn a stable income. Your donation opens the way to a safe and happy future, steering clear of the pitfalls of trafficking, prostitution, and sexual exploitation.
- You can also help by raising awareness within your own circles about these crucial initiatives to combat modern slavery.
The difference you can make: the impact of your giving
By supporting vulnerable young girls and women in the Philippines through education, income-generating opportunities, and child rights advocacy, you enable them to become empowered individuals and to build better lives for themselves, their families and their communities.
Relevant Country Data:
Capital: Manila
Population: 94,852,000
GDP per capita: $2,370
Population living below national poverty line: 22.6%
Adult literacy rate, both sexes (aged 15 and above): 95.4%
Infant mortality rate (probability of dying between birth and age 1 per 1,000 live births): 19.2
Maternal mortality ratio (deaths of women per 100,000 live births): 94
Life expectancy at birth: 68.7 years
