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tv   Discarded Children  Deutsche Welle  November 22, 2020 9:15am-10:00am CET

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out how to use news clue to forget what has happened. i made a decision on the big day. you don't feel like you're so when you're high. i'm not . you think of me. i don't know what i'm having other stuff. you know, i don't remember much of what is happening out in the jails for children. they're like maybe evil dungeons there are small cells with steel bars on the gates and on the windows being knocked inside. salmoni overcrowding in a small space. a ruthless war against drugs is being waged in the philippines and a countless number of children are among its casualties. thousands of children live on the streets because their parents are either in prison or dead. a large number of children living on the streets have parents that are too poor to
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take care of them. the street is the home for thousands of children whose wellbeing doesn't really interest anyone. christian 17 is the leader of a gang that lives inside a bridge. in manila, the children chose this place to make it harder for adults to reach them, especially the police who often harass children on the streets. child, not about some of us who live here, have parents. example them of us who are my son and me that now one me now staying here because we all cofactor up and i'm just, i'm and i'm as a sound got out. i think i did
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a lot of time and people might end up with a mind and this is where we kill time. even though it's dangerous here. you know what i'm and i'm glad i'm me being here is not good for us. i know, especially when i think about what could happen that one of his fellow american and i'm not that's not enough and i missed him. senator, it's a message to be made up. i mean, i got but there was no use in taking him to the hospital. you know, that's when he called for help. no one came up and actually began a lot of the folks who have to answer to the room enough for me know, committed a crime and i was on the lead these children would rather risk life on the streets then to be taken into care, which in the philippines works like a prison. the youngest members of christians,
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gang are only 8 years old. somebody examples? i'm an odd child. i got on him about for help at this point 2 conditions. i knew, i mean, there must of us that also we have problems that go out there with the mothering and he will not obey them up. we're doing anything out of the tsunami, not going to one up will mock. we're really proud of ourselves up even though we can't come to school. that we're not a type that's odd. i mean, we know that we live a difficult life. i don't know. how do you feel living the streets? it's to feel sick. ah, i according to the estimates, manila has 30000 street children. they beg or steal to get food. their
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main aid comes from organizations that help children in the bloody war against drugs in the philippines. these children are left even more exposed to the hard hand of the wall. the children in care for many of them have very little contact with their families. so they really living in a peer group, mostly supporting a child. they have very, very high rates of contact with the law, and most of the time it's very, very negative contact, very high rates of experiencing delays, violence, and torture. they frequently arrests is obvious fairly at times is there's some substance abuse amongst them and amongst the people that should be caring for them to going to parents as high rates of incarceration of their family members. so it's a very difficult group of children to work with. christians
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gang lives in chiappe, old, a poor suburb of manila, the capital of the philippines. the front of it's famous catholic church is the home of the poor. many of the members of christians, gang, still have parents. christian only has a father somewhere far away. in kalpoe, he has a new family, his gang of street children, where he takes care of the smaller ones. that building an island without regard each universe of nice as equals but not going through is not even it's you know, i got one. i mean you shall bet bisected in that what you do in this pedestrian bridge or something. rosaries, so that we can buy food by so break down and comes to earn your living. fighters got off and on a boy,
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it's a hard life for the families of the children of key aapl caught in the midst of the war on drugs instigated by president do terror tape, where the poor accused of being drug dealers are killed or locked away. raids are part of everyday life, at least in these places, where the parents of christians, young friends, live, the street children of key are often arrested. the leaders of the philippines want to lower the age of criminal liability from the current 15 to 9 or 12. this means that even younger children could see themselves behind bars with a checkbox 12 that can already be put inside the detention facility. that will be you would count how many children from 15 from 12 to 15 that big put to jail. and
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then you still have this war on drugs that also put people in jail instead of doing rehab on community based intervention. this is really problematic and the justice system is not yet ready for that. that a lot of children are not afraid specially those on the streets, those children mission that have a permanent home. we have also interviewed children in streets of patients, which i know who i know friends because they felt they feel like and the time they can be trusted us. and once they are planted, as children who are involved in the
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n.-g. o. buchheit saloon helps the children on the streets. the children of chiappe will alert louise to all men when they're in trouble. i like playing with this white house during the winter, pressing. trying to do it all that me close to the edge of having a doctor come yet i know this year there are no charges pressed against that person. you're going to have an incident. i guess i do not. i think christian has gone missing. i. one of the children saw the police take them, but now no one knows where he is. i sometimes street children are arrested without
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a reason. many tell of torture and interrogation in the institutions. so the we suah men has called the representatives of the commission on human rights. enough to not use it on me and i think i know there's no christian was arrested because the police were looking for a pickpocket. but now he's free again. not full of again. no, it was my 1st time in jail that i love all been on the police for months and run into a school and accused of stealing our government. you know about it. but you didn't steal enough that we were just accused of. it's you know, what is because the police song is hanging around and i said that been a low number. they made me a scapegoat. you know, i mean, i was not, i mean speech me. and so my panel stopped. i know boy, in about reason while i was in hospital, i still felt afraid of the me the doctor knew i was in pain and us too happy to,
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you know, we always, you know, we don't think a lot of us bad enough by now. it's just 100 just pounding because i'm afraid. oh no, that's not being arrested for no good reason. i do not doubt rest of solvents to forget about. i'm not what i wish i had to get a while. i remind myself that i really haven't done anything like that. and i doubt the war against drugs has hardened attitudes towards crime. and this also goes for children, thousands of adults and dozens of children have been killed in police operations in recent years. and thousands of children have lost their parents because of this war . i do think the police and bus haasan are planning a raid. who will one day?
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this is me. they are searching for drug dealers. children who sniff glue and minors on the streets after the curfew. 10 pm. during the past 2 years, the police have arrested over 1300 children for drug related crimes. even tonight the group is targeting 2 under-aged methamphetamine dealers in the number of pirates every week, minimum, 100. that's where my soul that stood at that compared to what that should be. because who decides who are in the clear since we are on drugs
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or sense where other substances, where is the methamphetamine time time time somebody. so of course the target to be centered around them. come here first. no money. me and my best money. and we stand up, stand up, stand up for you. i'll tell you what i'm laying out from where you left off. i know people are going to be left out when i get to the 6th in school to say this only 16 years old. how about you got the 1000
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a quite enough. don't wanna be in my recent one about there are thieves in this house, but 200, there's this amount of trouble soul. when we pass it, they live. but the trouble came back to our own and showed less that there really but the ship solo, admittedly, really good that i rest of this boy's brothers are pulling yourself to be dug outs. but when their boss is that after this, we will be turning them over to the social workers fire the grass
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drug dealing is a major risk even for minors. according to the statistics, over 100 children have been killed over 3 years in the war against drugs. you know, those troops weren't ours. we were playing mobile legend's when the raid started back of you know, having to go to school to have stopped. we no longer have money for it. we don't. mung salary only covers food. i mean, this is every day life for those who live in extreme poverty. the boys other brothers already in prison for different reasons. the 16 year old knows that he will go to a correctional facility maybe for a long time. lieutenant kapur also understands that many crimes stem from extreme poverty,
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but he believes that there is no alternative to arresting them for me. being in service for, for almost 15 years. i have encountered that the miners when i say mine are that those are 14 years old, 13 years old. they are involved in all they do, even in the image for me at this minute or if we will only lessen the penalty. but we still have to arrest them because of that situation that i am only a child. so i will have to be put in here told us that they live by the united nations. but every night the station is filled with children who have broken curfew . they get to go home if their parents are to be found otherwise they will be taken into a shelter. and the summer camp who is one of the areas with the most street
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children, is still chillin a little bit down. the social work is a taking you away a little going with us. it's ok to pick them up. but this is how manila solves that social issues. the streets are forcibly emptied in the morning of those who have no time to run. according to unicef, the philippines have
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a couple 1000000 abandoned or discarded children. they run from the social services rescue operation. if you see my mother in child 2, it was you saying, i'm going to sophie to play. i love. oh, come on, let's go. she doesn't just take it easy on the time comes was out of the budget even admitting that to get at me when she comes from our house, we're just selling, we're selling it. what it is, what you have in your hand out of it up. i mean, it was like going to blow my back. we're selling a large family is there was
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a comment on a hotline, and actually i was a bit of a actually children don't want to be in institutions that have a gun assisted scene that they feel it's easier on the street because i was going to have to stand in a can do with a place the one in the still middle. so i hear long in the some of the problem is that the children go back to the streets. even though that has been returned to the families agree, cannot answer. and then sadly enough, if we have here a 15 year old mother with a hero, child would find the money to be used. sometimes we have babies who have been taken within mothers. the rescue of the street children is like a never ending circle where children are taken released back to the streets
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and taken again inside the same gate is a shelter for the homeless and a correctional facility for children who have committed crimes. the human rights commission consider both places as prison and would have to be some of the stuff and it looks a prison that you need to say. they have rule. 5 which we have bars, the wires have metal seals being his as long as they are very few sleeping spaces, not enough for all children to be confined to the whole day. doing not being children who wind up here often come from alleys like these extreme poverty. in the center of manila, raymond's mother has asked n.g.o.s to help her. the police arrested her son and
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took him to an institution because the boy threw a stone broke a windshield from a passing bus. in a back to the windscreen back, the goal was a screw hit the clubs this is the 3rd time raymond has been arrested for the 1st time. he ended up in a youth correctional facility because he is over 15 years old. for a month, raymond cried a lot. he was held down by the police, threaten to snap him, if he wouldn't stop. and he was really crying out that no one on my line if you said, tried to hitch a small boy, yukon, totes him back in. so i am the owner of the bus demanded that the mother pay over $80.00 euros. but those who live in these alleys can afford it. but leave that on. last
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weekend i said to them myself, i was on the street. he said to me that the situation is this old woman. you need to get that if you will paint in one form that take the boy into an institution not unhealthy and the 2 highest in them. i said no, this company, he said the miner and he hasn't killed anyone. raymond and rain old live with their mother and 2 siblings in terrible conditions. they've hardly ever gone to school. they've encountered the police a lot more than that. the union 1000 union one on
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one hand, i hope raymond want experience what i've made it through to i want to know definitely wouldn't like it. i might want to commit suicide in the institution. i don't wish, you know, one, i'm willing to do more than many take their lives because it's so bad there. and you know, that is, you know, the food is terrible. i'm up and even the rice isn't cold. you know what i mean? i'm going to learn a little you will also tell me that the mother goes to the city hall to ask the prosecutor if charges have been filed against the boy. it turns out that charges haven't been filed yet,
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but the child has been taken into an institution for a small crime in his brain and now in jail. yes he is. he had broken the windshield. it wasn't intentional. no one has grown accustomed to saving children who have been in prison for small crimes or for no reason at all. they help mothers navigate a complicated web of bureaucracy to find their children at the gates of the center open. and you can hear children crying from the passing cars. i there moved from the city to another center. boy's town i. 7 thought that raymond's case might be over on wednesday,
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because it was a small crime just movement to my heart. i'm worried that he's a minor, only 16 years after the authorities clean up 2 children are released from the shelter according to the law. children under 15 can't be jailed. first, a social worker takes the boys' information in order to find their family. and so many street children do have a family. and i, on the buses are made money, says impatient if one only has been one genre of life. but yes, i do social workers caution against us because you think that women of before my opinion, the street children almost always come from broken homes because the parents are often too exhausted to take care of children after the primary. so has 6 children,
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they live in a small room, and mari sell sells used clothing with her sister. that normally isn't even enough for a day's meal. on the outside, i'm a single parent in order to get food daily. i go around selling secondhand clothes with my older sister and i know i mean by them or that way you either i also work in booking and or not, i do anything that is available and i'll take things to a pawn shop because of my work. i can't always take care of my children all the time. some look out for me. i do know that when one of the you you raymond's mother returns to the correctional facility. after 3 nights. the boys
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should be released today. the boy leaves the building with short hair and they are not really me, but i'm not mad. i'm planning money. sat on a book, we slept on plastic mats on some back floor. that's amendable. i mean, i this is a correctional facility that takes 15 to 18 year olds. priests shay cullen has arrived to his regular rescue missions to the mara miikka youth home. he has seen many children under 15 years old in these places. the children are practically locked up and vulnerable to violence from the older ones. shay collins foundation friend, is one of the registered ones to which authorities give children to be taken care
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off from overcrowded children's homes. today, 2 youths go with him. john paul and rolando have been locked up several times now and the reason often being breaking the curfew for long though is only 14 and according to the law too young to be there. in the uk, minors can be on the streets alone after 10 pm can't shake cullen searches for the children's parents to tell them that the boys are taken to predecessor outside of manila in olongapo? a lot of oh,
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john paul's father is a single parent. his wife left when the child was 5 years old. i'm not sure you. it wasn't like many poor filipinos. this father works for weeks on end, on construction sites, far away from home. and that up to the pay is poor out there. so when the children are used to being home alone from a young age. yeah. ok. i'll learn a little out of my night and you know, point out that i'm sometimes i'm so tired from work. i pad and when i come home, i go to bed that that's on them because they have to leave for work early in the next embrittlement on somebody i would get into later, but i know we won't have food unless i work. and if i don't care about losing my
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wife that about that, but i don't want to lose my children. and if i'm going to buy my level without moment, that made a plan and i'm old. and i hope that one day the children will take care of me and i will and will manage them and attacking one parents and have them out of you. but they understand that i didn't abandon from there. you have to fill in the in the middle can apply mia, even though i couldn't stand of the school and they didn't starve my niggas in any local shake. one takes the boys to the shelter and predator. the irish priest has been
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saving philippine children since the 1960 s. . this is state in the countryside is a home for boys who would otherwise be in prison under the control of the authorities. here the boys draw about their experiences in children's homes. this is one of the pictures of the children drawing about what happened to him inside is only a small little boy. and my own credit is, i mean, he's only a small boy, maybe even 12 years old. he's been inside the jail behind bars, and they tortured him. there. he showed here that this is they gave him an electric shock as a punishment. no. this is a guard. we're not talking
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about isolation room isolated as a punishment. and they have directors who want us to massage them. some have mental illnesses. yes, man who will threaten you with the shootings in the welder's, many of these jails for children. they're like maybe evil dungeons are small cells with steel bars on the gates and on the windows are locked inside. so miami overcrowding, in a small space, they don't have beds in most of these places. they sleep on the concrete floor.
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there's many places, the toilets are full of dirt and stuffed up. there's no running water, they only shower sometimes twice a week if they are allowed to go hungry and insiders, severe abuse and bigger boys are the ones who are raping danaan moline and a small children. shay cullen has seen and photographed much over the decades and documented the conditions of the children taken into care. he says that the philippine authorities treat the children like criminals, even though the law doesn't allow it. even children under 10 have ended up behind bars. the government does not follow the law and they do not
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recognize the rights of the child. you know, they do not care for them. and when they are found on the streets, are there is a complaint against the child for a big gain or taking food in the market for survival to live until they put them in jail. at least they get some food in the jail. they stay alive, but it's a horrible existence inside the cell. and much abuse happens in those tunes. thousands of children live without their parents because they've been imprisoned in
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the war against drugs. over $30000.00, children became orphaned and the parents of almost half a 1000000 children went to jail in the 1st year of the drug war. and these children have learned to take care of themselves. johnny wakes up early but i'm peeling onions. if i don't peel on noodles, sometimes i carry stuff to help out in the market where i can get a little bit of money. but i'm willing johnny lives with his nan and then doesn't know that johnny works at night. she just thinks that johnny sleeps over at his friend's place.
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the war against drugs has made grandmothers, important protectors of children from dangers. johnny and sandra, have lived with their nan since their mother and father wound up in prison because of drugs. the children had to watch their parents get arrested. his life already wasn't easy. the living, their parents made was from odd jobs, but at least johnny got to go to school. that i want to get on the chew he is. johnny hasn't had a father or a mother to pay for school. it's only man that is now he fucked up and i don't make enough money to school him, get the food. so i don't have a voice 6 children staying at my place. like there is no money, a school right now,
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the family can only afford to send sandra to school. what is it that makes me cry? i think these are very good things wouldn't be like this. if my daughters would have just listened to, my advice is going to be a shop by the children wouldn't have to grow up like this. they would all of them to be hanging with us. it's so hard to know why i gave up the will of the world i want to at least publish why i want to catch drug. he says, and i just have johnny sandra and nana go to see the children's mother who has been jailed in a drug rehab clinic. the children haven't seen their mother in law since because
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they can't afford the trip. at least a prison has allowed us to film their private meeting in the office. you need to get me upset if you're not me. that was for my love. this would be what is good mom. time to change. you get to go to school. when i get out of here, that maybe you should take a look over the world. i can't talk about the situation with my children. say like a thought would imply because i see how it hurts them. for now, i'm sorry for what i've done to them at the moment in the last question. johnny on the ball because the congressman if school had it,
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it's our boy go to the idea once and knife to go the same way as mine. they should live good lives and not for pete's my mistakes they get in there. just like many other children, sandra and johnny come from a broken home. the likud didn't form it up. it wasn't going on when we live here in toronto. manila life is difficult because our home is only a shack and we get wet, not it, rains and of all the shops. also the heat is a new sound science and they are mosquitoes. and i know them for
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a 16 year old mary grace is expecting her 1st child. she didn't mean to get pregnant. but her and her boyfriend never learned about contraception. abortion here is a legal and sexual education is barely an afterthought. i knew at school for 6 years and i'm still working on making my dreams a reality yet. i was just so mary grace shares a studio flat with her mother and a 2 year old brother. her 2nd brother sleeps outside. i was shocked when i found out i was pregnant, off the shelf. i didn't want to get credit for it. i was just short of time on the shelf that would have been a while. and even when i'm at my 3,
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used to take me everywhere, have all been up and up enough washing my experience and here. but i hadn't my mom, right. she would take me to places and i tried different types of food to be happy things. i couldn't buy myself in the summer because we don't have money for this nice. mary. grace is one of 200000 teens who will give birth this year in the philippines. according to the commission on population, 24 children are born every hour to teen mothers. the majority of these mothers are children themselves, who had to drop out of school. mary grace's partner has been jailed under conditions that are considered normal in manila. the young man was accused of stealing bottles of coca-cola,
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but he denies the charges, but endures the conditions humbly. oh, you know what? i don't think it's ok in here. it's just hard to sleep between all these people. you have to queue to take a shower the only thing that counts here is hope and that never runs out. mary grace also hopes that her child will be better off and more educated than them. and won't end up in jail because there are
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