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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 and you know those troops weren't ours we were playing mobile legends when the raid started a band of you know to go to school to want to have stopped. him and we no longer have money for it we don't know sodomy only covers food. this is every day life for those who live in extreme poverty. the boy's 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 but he believes that there is no alternative to arresting
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them. for me. being in the service for for almost 3 years i have encountered that the miners when it's a minority and that those are 14 years old 13 years old. they are involved in. all they do even though in the image. for me of this paper if we will only lessen the penalty but we still have to arrest them because they're taking advantage of the situation that i am only a child so i wouldn't have been put in the hole that's not been in my but you know pieces. of it 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. under some other camp who is one of the areas with the most street
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a couple 1000000 abandoned or discarded children. they run from the social services rescue operation i. p c one mother and child who lives in the same. diesel fijian. i am on it so she doesn't just take it easy i. think sometimes somebody would use anything anything from. the look at them when she comes from our house we're just selling we're selling it what it is what you have in your hand . they looked it up on me was gonna get out oh my god we're selling my family is there ever. was it
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was never. a man about. a chile i was a bit of a actually children don't want to be an institution of the lesser states and i may feel it's easier on the street and i would then have to abandon the can do with airplanes wanting and will still live so i hear long in the song but the problem is that the children go back to the streets even though that has been returned to the families agree or not incentives have found enough. if we have here a 15 year old mother with a year old child to wooden dynamite to do sometimes we have babies who have been taken and others to. 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 on this facility looks at prison i mean to say they have a rule 5 which we have buyers the wires. have metal. being his us born this very few sleeping spaces not enough for all children to be inside a building full 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 an ngo to help her. the police arrested her son and took
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him to an institution because the boy threw a stone that broke when shield from a passing bus. you know about it when his bring back the clothes screw him the gloves. 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 he leaves raymonde raymond cried a lot he was held down the police threatened to stop him if he wouldn't stop and he was really crowing up having our own obama thing to get the blame if you said tried to hit a small boy yukon totes him badly so by now. i don't know but. the owner of the bus demanded that the mother pay over $80.00 euros. but those who live in these alleys can't afford it i am lucky that the. last.
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one came i said to them myself i was on the street he said to me that the situation is this old woman maybe the guy that if you were playing on one that take the boy into an institution unhealthy and change to highest in a month. i said no this company is still a minor 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. i knew my name was honeymooning i'm
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going to be a man i hope raymond want experience what i've made it through. to i want to know is definitely wouldn't like it. but he might want to commit suicide in the institution i don't missing him one i'm letting. you know my. and many take their lives because it's so bad there in that. the food is terrible the mop and even the rice is a cold play room to land on. 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. but the
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child has been taken into an institution for a small crime. and this braman now in jail. yes he is. he did present when she'll it wasn't intentional you know what. i. hide saloon 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. the gates of the center open and you can hear children crying from the passing car . their move from the city to another center boy's town i.
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doubt that raymond's case might be over on wednesday because it was a small crime say just small bands and it's. my car i'm working on he's a minor only 16 is you know. 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 families. many street children do have a family and i apologise for my money says. you know if you know who's been wandering around like my guest i don't socialize caution against us to find out the minute you know my going on the street children almost always come from broken homes that the parents are often too exhausted to take care of children are the primary cell has 6 children they live in
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a small room and mari sell sells used clothing with her sister that normally isn't even enough for a day's meal i mean. 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. that of course i would like to either i also work in booking and or not i do anything that is available and i'll take things to a pawnshop because of my work i can't always take care of my children all the time . some look out for 'd. me i didn't know that woman at the you. knew. the. raymonds mother returns to the correctional facility after 3 nights the boys should
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be released today. the boy leaves the building with short hair. and they are not really mean by the government they had ample warning money sat on a book we slept on plastic mats. on cement floor the cement well i mean i. this is a correctional facility that takes 15 to 18 year olds priest 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 too which authorities give
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children to be taken care off from overcrowded children's homes. today 2 youths go with him. and john paul and for a long go 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 to young to be there. in the minors can't be on the streets alone after 10 pm. shake cullen searches for the children's parents to tell them that the boys are taken to predecessor outside of manila in olongapo a low level. 00000 people.
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john paul's father is a single parent. his wife left when the child was 5 years old. and. it looks like it wasn't like many poor filipinos this father works for weeks on end on construction sites far away from home. on the top of the pay is poor. when. the children are used to being home alone from a young age. ok i've learned. little as a man i. get up and thank him sometimes i'm so tired from work but when i come home i go to bed that that's going on because they have to leave for work early in america then people return i would get into little by little we won't have food unless i work and if i don't care about losing my wife that about that but i
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don't want to lose my children. and if i'm going to buy my level that moment. that. made up when i'm old and i hope that one day the children will take care of me and i will matter and one parents when asked about you but they understand that i didn't abandon from there you had to fill in the more than a little fillip and. even though i couldn't stand of the school and the mother they didn't start my new course in the middle of. 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 estate 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 he says one of the pictures of the children drawing about what happened to him inside is only a small little boy and that. is i mean it is 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. when a minority leader. talking. about isolation
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room they put them isolated as a punishment. when we. haven't. got directors who want us to massage them. some have mental illness she said yes ma'am and you would. you know. well there's money of these. jails for children and they are like maybe evil dungeons are small cells with steel bars on the gates and on the windows. locked inside so my me over crowding in a small space they don't have beds in most of these places they sleep on the
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concrete floor there's. many places the toilets are full of dirt and stuff. there's no running water and 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 be tane and bullying and the small children. shake colin 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
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government does not follow the law and they do not recognise the rights of the child in all. they do not care for them and when they are found on the streets are there is a complaint against a child for begging or taking food in the market for survival tool to live and to eat they put them in the 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 2 rooms. 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 belong and sometimes i carry stuff to help out in the market where i can get a little bit of money. for . a little bit and i'm willing. johnny lives with his nan. nan doesn't know that johnny works at night she just thinks that johnny sleeps over at his friend's place. the war against drugs has made
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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 only one. in going on the 2 year is johnny hasn't had a father or a mother to pay for school it's only none of his nan he fucked up and that i don't make enough money to school him at the feet so i have 5 or 6 children staying at my place all right there is no money school. right now the family can only afford to send sandra to school.
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what is it. that makes me cry for those things wouldn't be like this if my daughters would have just listened to my advice is to supply you with children wouldn't have to grow up like this. they would go to school and be hanging with us so hard like you know what of the war. i went to a place to live so why i want to touch drugs he says and i'll 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. she gets none of that if you are. not legal practice or proper love this would be what this will get mom time to change. you get to go to school when i get out of here the families are. taking over. i can't talk about the situation with my children say like a thought in full 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 when the ball because he
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can't finish school having boycotted the idea once and knife to go the same way as mine. they should live good lives and not repeat my mistakes again. just like many other children sandra and johnny come from a broken home. little forming up to the bone when we live here in tondo manila life is difficult because our home is only a shack and we get wet and it rains and of all the shops also the heat is a new sound science and they are mosquitoes and i know that 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 it was was just so mary grace shares a studio flat with her mother and a 2 year old brother. her 2nd brother sleeps outside. the tele i was shocked when i found out i was pregnant on the show i didn't want to get credit for and i was sure that some of this out there would have been up well.
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enough and that when i met my 3 used to take me everywhere i will be not done up enough i experience and feel. but i hadn't in my memory he would take me to prices and i tried different types of foods. you can't refinance i couldn't buy myself a big family because we don't have money. it's not. very grace is one of 200000 teens who will give birth this year in the philippines . according to the commission on population $24.00 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. but he denies the
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charges but endures the conditions humbly oh you know what i don't think it's ok and 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.
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