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true to its stores may 17th on v.w. . finding out how you sniff glue to forget what has happened the knives i mean if you saw the big mistake and you don't feel like your son when you're high or not you think of me i don't know what i think i'm just having the idea i don't remember much of what is happening out in the. jails for children and their like maybe even dungeons their small cells with steel bars on the gates and on the windows. nothing inside so mommy 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
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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 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 some of us who live here have parents that moment us so who are 4 for us
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but not that bad boy i mean a real story here because we all cope with it i just i'm not missing that. i've you know i did a. lot of time and it might end up with a lot of this is where we kill time even though it's dangerous here you know what i meant and i'm glad i'm being here is not good for us by and especially when i think about what's going to happen that mornings felt like i mean at. least. not enough when i'm standing senator nelson vegetable you know what i'm not now but there was no use in taking him to the hospital that when he called for help no one came up and actually taking a lot of money from him to listen to one another from enough committed a crime that he was in the room. led.
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these children would rather risk life on the streets than to be taken into care which in the philippines works like a prison. the youngest members of christians gang are only 8 years old. somebody examples i'm an odd child i got an in-law and i were hoping to spawn 2 conditions i knew i mean the last of us and although we have problems that go out you're left wondering and you will not let them up we're doing anything other than i mean we're not going to one up will mock really proud of ourselves. up even though we can't come to school. and i'm. not. the side i mean i mean with that we live a difficult life i don't know i didn't do for years in the streets it's to feel sick ah but.
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according to the estimates manila has 30000 street children they beg or steal to get. food. their 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 law. the children in care for many of them have very in these who contact with their families and they really living in a period were mostly supporting. the 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 that at times it is there's some substance abuse amongst them and amongst
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the people that should be caring for them to going to parents as high rates of incarceration of their family members. so it's very difficult for the children to work with. christians gang lives in 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 and he has a new family his gang of street children where he takes care of the smaller ones. that running and we regard each innocent nice as equals but only about please there's no money that's. where you know i got what i mean you know how about boston didn't that what we're doing this pedestrian bridge or something rosaries so that
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we can buy film to be not. so great and comes to earn your living fighters i got off and on a boy. 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 tear take 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 the age
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of 12 that have already been put inside the detention facilities that will be you would count how many children from 15 from 12 to 15 that would be put to jail and 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 they have also interviewed hundreds and hundreds of patients which are now who are no friends because they felt they feel like any time they can be just once they are planted as children who are involved in.
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the n.g.o.s heights who lujan helps the children on the streets the children of alert louise when they're in trouble. nobody likes. to think of. this white house. doing the window dressing thinking. he would go to me both at. the age of. having their own yes. i know this yes there were no charges pressed this. person of interest was an. incident i guess i do not think i do not christian has
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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 a reason. many tell of torture and interrogation in the institutions so the ways suum and has called the representatives of the commission on human rights even did not listen to me and that i was. no christian was arrested because the police were looking for a pickpocket but now he's free again. you know not for me general it was my 1st time in jail i love all been a little clues from lots and run into us an accused of stealing our revenue people but i was put to them stealing up we were just comes to the numbers because the police songs hanging around the set have been a low number they made me a scapegoat you know i you know it's always been that appalling to me not my face beats me until i passed out i don't believe in about reason while i was in hospital
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i still felt afraid the whole time not that i'm like oh no not me the doctor knew i was in pain and us talking to you know i don't always you know don't make a lot of. it i. think the. last. enough by now it's not hard just pounding because i'm afraid oh well i know that i'll be arrested for no good reason i do not doubt my stuff solvents to forget about i'm not what i wish i had to get away i remind myself that i really haven't done anything like that and i don't think. 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
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because of this war. i do think. the police and bus haasan are planning a raid. like this was they are searching for drug dealers children who sniff glue and minors on the streets after the curfew 10 pm. but. 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 peru called in the number of letters every month minimal 100 arrests where my
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soul. that's today that compared to. what the should be because the distance leader says water and drugs. are. center where other substances where is the methamphetamine. sometimes i'm somebody so of course that i get to be centered on the. come here. first no money. for me i mean. my best man in. the stand up stand up stand up tell you why don't they all around the corner from. what 1000 people in the building left i went to the pool in. the 6th in.
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school to say this 16 years old how about to go. the 1000 accurate. enough to want to. sit with. my recently. sat in this house. but $200.00 basis a month of trouble soul when we positively but the ship came back to our room. and showed us that there really but the soul immediately read that the that i read. this boy's. brothers are. putting yourself to good drugs but when their bus is that. after this we will be turning them over to the social workers. who are perjury
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groups. 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 drugs weren't ours we were playing mobile legends when the raid started we have a band of you know you go to school. have stopped. and we no longer have money for it we don't. only covers food but. 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
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a long time. lieutenant kapur also understands that many crimes stem from extreme poverty but he believes that there is no alternative to arresting them. for me. being in the service for for almost 3 years i have encountered that the miners when i say mine are that those are 14 years or 13 years old. they are evolving. even in the image for me dismantling if we will only lessen the penalty but we still have to arrest them because they're taking advantage of that situation and i am only a child so i will not be put in here told us that they live by the europeans. every night the station is filled with children who have broken curfew. they get to go
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home if their parents are to be found. otherwise they will be taken into a shelter. listen to someone who is one of the areas with the most street children. still chillin. down the social work is a taking you away. so . they're going to come 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 and those who have no time to run.
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according to unicef the philippines have a couple 1000000 abandoned or discarded children. they run from the social services rescue operation. if you see my mother in china who was nice enough. to sophie to. i. come on just so she doesn't just take it easy i. think that sometimes something that you see in a missing child. that when she comes from our house we're just selling we're selling it what is it what you have in your hand . they looked it up on me was landing at. home mom i love it
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we're selling my family is there. was it was. a man and a. friend of chile i was a fan of the actually children don't want to be in institutions it out of the assisted cinema still it's easier on the street because i was in the back and they can do with a place the one in the stomach so i hear long in the his uncle the problem is that the children go back to the streets even though that has been returned to the families agree not incentives have found enough. this we have here a 15 year old mother with a year old child with a wooden box and among these sometimes we have babies who have been taken within harvest and. the rescue of the
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street children is like a never ending circle. where children are taken released back to the streets 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 this definitely looks like prison i mean to say they have a rule 5 which they have buyers the wires. have metal feels he has as the artist there are very few sleeping spaces not enough for all children to be inside a building full day really not being. children who wind up here often come from alleys like these. extreme poverty in the center of manila.
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raymond's mother has asked and in geo to help her. the police arrested her son and 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 glass. 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. raymonde raymond cried a lot he was held down the police threatened to snap him if he wouldn't stop and he was really crowing up at me no no i'm not going to get a blind nephew said try to hit a small boy u. conn's hurts him badly so i know. that. the
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owner of the bus demanded that the mother pay over $80.00 euros. but those who live in these alleys can. to afford it i am talking about that. last. weekend i said to them i sell flowers on the street he said to me that the situation is this old woman he the guy that if you were playing on one side that take the boy into an institution not one unhealthy the 2 highest minimum beyond that i said no this company he's 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
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hardly ever gone to school. they've encountered the police a lot more than that. i knew my mom's had pneumonia going to die and i hope raymond want to experience what i've made it through. to i want to not definitely wouldn't like it. but you might want to commit suicide in the institution i don't wish to no one i'm willing. to do more than many take their lives because it's so bad there in the not that easy the food is terrible the up and even the rice is a cold you know playing on the moon and. i. don't need anyone to. tell me that the lid.
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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 child has been taken into an institution for a small crime. in his brain and now in jail. yes he is. the windshield it wasn't intentional. to lujan 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 cars
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. their move from the city to another center boy's town. i. 7 thought that was the famous case might be over on wednesday because it was a small crime just small fantasy. my heart my money and he's a minor only 16 years now. 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 7 am the boss is her name maddy says. them digital now has been wandering around like mad yes i do social workers caught on again yesterday that the moment of the night you know the street children almost always come from
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broken homes. the parents are often too exhausted to take care of children but mari cell has 6 children 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 i live. out my new 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 or so 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 . last week as i look out. i do know that we're going to.
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raymond's mother returns to the correctional facility after 3 months the boys should be released today. the boy leaves the building with short hair. and they are not going to be a man and they don't pull any money sat on it we slept on plastic mats. on some back for the system and well i mean i. this is a correctional facility that takes 15 to 18 year olds priest shake cullen has arrived to his regular rescue missions to the mara mika 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. shake
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collins foundation friend is one of the registered ones to which authorities give children to be taken care off from overcrowded children's homes. today 2 youths go with him. 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 manila minors can be on the streets alone after 10 pm. shay cullen searches for the children's parents to tell them that the boys are taken to a predator outside of manila in olongapo. john
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paul's father is a single parent. his wife left when the child was 5 years old. and looks like you it was like many poor filipinos this father works for weeks on end on construction sites far away from home. only about the pay is poor out there so when the children are used to being home alone from a young age. ok i love it when. they do that and i know i got. you know when i said i'm sometimes i'm so tired from work my dad and i when i come home i go to bed but that's because they have to be
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for work early in the morning and perform it on somebody i would go and get invited to but i will and we won't have food unless i work and if i don't care about losing my wife that's about where that but i don't want to lose my children. and have been a bad mother that one thought i am alone and. that. made up when i'm old and i hope that one day the children will take care of me and. my mom and i got back in one parent's and asked them not you but they understand that i didn't abandon from there you have to fill in the inner need to fill up the media. even though i couldn't send them to school and. they didn't start my new course in any noble.
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shape call untaken the boys to the shelter and predator the irish priest has been saving philippine children since the 1960 fps. 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 homes this is one of the pictures of the children drawing about what happened to him inside is only a small little boy and. he's only there 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 electric shock. as a punishment no. this is
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a guard. when a minority little. isolation room they put them. as a punishment. they have directors who want us to massage them. somehow mental illness is. just man written you would. you know what can you say leg. in the. welder's many of these these jails for children they are like maybe evil dungeons are small cells with steel bars on the gates and on the windows.
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are 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 concrete floor there's many places the toilets are full of dirt and stuffed up. 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 raped being on wooleen and the 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
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children under 10 have ended up behind bars. the government does not follow the law and they do not recognize the rights of the child you know. they do not care for them i'm 20 are found on the streets are there is a complaint against a child for begging or taking food in the market for survival to live and to eat they put them into 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 children's cells for.
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thousands of children live without their parents because they've been imprisoned in 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. these children have learned to take care of themselves. johnny wakes up early. but the peeling onions. if i don't peel on units sometimes i carry stuff to help out in the market where i can get a little bit of money. and i'm willing. johnny lives with his nan. nan doesn't know that johnny
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works at night she just thinks that johnny sleeps over at his friend's place. 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. he says 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 our. going on the 2 years johnny hasn't had a father or a mother to pay for school it's only mean that is now he fucked up and i don't make enough money to school him at the feet so i don't have 5 or 6 children staying at
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my place i guess there is no money to school. right now and the family can only afford to send sandra to school. what is it. that makes me cry for good things wouldn't be like this if my daughters would have just listened to my advice has been doing it yourself while you were children wouldn't have to grow up like this. they would go to school and behave when i was about us it's so hard i gave up the love of the war. i want to at least tell us why i want to touch drugs he says and i just have. johnny sandra and nana go to see the children's mother who has been jailed in
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a drug rehab clinic. the children haven't seen their mother and months because they can't afford the trip. at least. a prison has allowed us to film their private meeting in the office. one. day she gets me upset if you're. not legal practice or was unable to sleep what is his mom time to change. you get to go to school when i get out of here the families are. taking over the world. i can't talk about the situation with my children say like
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a thought into 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 bullying because the content if school had ended so boycotted the idea once and knife to go the same way as mine. they should live good lives and not repeat my mistakes they get in there. just like many other children sandra and johnny come from a broken home. the. only . reason for me not to listen don't the one we live here in toronto manila in life is difficult because our home is only
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a shack and we get wet and it rains and of all the hot also the heat is a new sound science and they are mosquitoes now i know that for 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 think i knew at school for 6 years and i'm still working on making my dreams a reality. yet it. 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 until i could get
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credit for it i was just short of time on this route i would have been on well. enough that when i met my i think he used to take me everywhere all the night and up enough i experienced and he. but i hadn't my mom she would take me to places and i tried different types of foods. you got me things i couldn't buy myself in the summer because we don't have money who's nice. mary 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. marry grace his partner has been jailed under conditions that are
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considered normal in manila. the young man was accused of stealing bottles of coca-cola. but he denies the 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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