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Cebu City Child Rescue & Rehabilitation Home
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2.2 million tourists visit the Philippines every year. Looking for night life and accomodations, many visit Cebu City, just minutes away from tropical sandy beaches.
In some part due to tourism, trafficking of children into forced prostitution has become a major problem in The Philippines. The numbers of those sold into this form of slavery is increasing rapidly with an estimated 100,000 children involved in a trade that has become openly commercial.
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Sexual Exploitation of Children
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 Rural children whose families survive on subsistence farming are particularly vulnerable to the influence of promised opportunity in the city. One day a business man may arrive in the village with stories of education and jobs if the parents agree to entrust care of the young boy or girl to the stranger. Knowing this may be their only chance to escape village life, the parents apprehensively agree. Returning to the city, the children are quickly sold to traffickers who imprison the children and sell them to back alley brothels and night clubs.
Forced, deceived or lured into the commercial sex trade, children simply "disappear" into the brothels, where they face physical and emotional degradation on a daily basis that destroys their innocence, individual will and future potential. Enslaved and forgotten, they are powerless to leave.
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Meeting the Need Through Ministry Partnership
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 The Cebu City Rescue and Rehabilitation Home involves a unique partnership of Christian organizations working to rescue children from commercial sex trade and provide the help and hope they need to move past the trauma. Mission of Mercy, along with International Justice Mission, (IJM) is working to hear the silent cry of children trapped in the underground world of Cebu City's brothels. IJM is a Christian organization working through local law enforcement in poor countries around the world. Their goal is to rescue illegally exploited people - such as child sex workers in Cebu City - and to bring the perpetrators of their oppression to justice through the country's court system.
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