Livelihoods & Policy Writeshop

Youth livelihood training in the neighboring municipality

World Vision Production of Child's Rights Policy Writing Workshop

I work with the non-governmental organization World Vision. The mission we are working on here in the Visayas is to fight against child labor, especially here in the sugarcane planting region where we live. Not only are there local sugarcane producers here, but large plantations of sugarcane owned by one family which promote an environment in which families are forced to have their children join them in the field. This is the only way some families can produce enough yield to earn enough money to live off.  

This two day event was designed to teach local partners in the communities we work in how to create and write local ordinances covering children, their rights to education, and freedom from being subjected to labor.