Our activities in Philippines

Current situation: the public hospital service covers medical and para-medical expenses but not medicines. Consequently, the poor (and there are many of them) are unable to follow prescribed treatment for their illnesses. Malnutrition is chronic among preschool and school-age children, as well as among pregnant and lactating women. It is estimated that approximately 2 million children are exposed to risks related to hazardous work environments (i.e. mines, quarries, port works). It is estimated that about 60,000 Filipino children are involved in the sex-for-sale industry. Moreover, official figures speak of at least 22,000 street children. Of the more than 10,000 child victims of abuse in 2000 over 70% were girls. 44% of these were sexual abuses, while other forms of abuse affect abandoned boys and girls, who are neglected or exploited as workers. Together with the CFIC, ever since 1995 Dokita has been supporting a welfare service at the Father Monti Shelter Home for the benefit of children with disabilities,abandoned children and orphans, and since 1999 at the Santo Niño Center located on the Island of Cebu.

Projects in Philippines

SAD (Remote Support)

• go to sostegnoadistanza.dokita.org

Progetti

• Shelters for child care (Cebu)

• Shelters for the care of disabled children