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We offer you a shocking report on child labour in the Philippines.

Mari-Lou is having the best day of her life. She and two friends are screaming at the top of their voices as they descend down a water chute. A government social worker has treated the girls to a day at an amusement park to help them recover from the trauma of being locked up, beaten, unpaid and sexually abused. Recruited from their peasant village to became maids in Manila, they have been totally exploited by their employment agency. Impoverished families are forced to let their children suffer slave labour. At a gold mine, Joel makes $8 a day scrabbling in the mud for any gold ore which spills beneath the wheels of endless trucks. In Manila, 13 year old Brian Marsada is locked into a dim warehouse where he bottles bleach. When it is raided by government forces, Brian escapes. A journey home to the lush but poverty stricken island of Mindanao in the Philippines reunites him with his family. His bright western clothes contrast with his father's torn and dirty shirt. Now embarrassed by the shabby hamlet, he misses the cheap, coloured lights of Manila.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: September 11, 2007 at 11:02 am
Author: journeymanpictures

Length: 00:16:26
Rating: 4.65
Views: 12151

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Video Comments:
tibakLang99 (November 9, 2008 at 5:26 pm)
what a sad video. now why don't we, youtube users, join forces, and somehow, overcome this!!! anyone with me? we can do this!!!!!
genkuko (November 2, 2008 at 5:13 am)
fuck its the parent fault too if they are poor they should not give birth a child and make them suffer... they only know how to fuck... btw im from Philippines too
xshhxveiv (November 15, 2008 at 11:59 pm)
is it their fault if they don't have anough money.
genkuko (November 16, 2008 at 7:23 am)
if they don`t have money then work harder and don`t gave birth, my parent was poor back then I remember that when I was 9 years old they both work hard to feed me and get to school and they did not have a proper education yet they done it now at least we are in middle class not poor not rich but Im happy with it, hope you understand what I say we once poor so I know (sorry for my bad english )
BNGbahala (November 20, 2008 at 11:06 pm)
i know what u mean. my family is poor in the p.i. too. everytime they send new pictures i see a new addition to the family.
genkuko (November 21, 2008 at 8:26 am)
then you are working overseas alone? I guess you should tell them do family planning even though it sounds rude to them, I mean its hard to work on different country and helping them, you still have your own life but its ok to send little amount of money for bill and food but luxury nahhh
brix05 (September 15, 2008 at 7:16 am)
i agree wiht you but some foreigners mostly pedophiles they take the oppurtunity the value of there money.. we hope that we have a death penalty to this maniacs foreigner who abused our children..
judycharisse (September 3, 2008 at 7:57 am)
hmmm... sabi nga ni KUYA BOB ONG sa aklat niyang "BAKIT BALIKTAD MAGBASA NG LIBRO ANG MGA PILIPINO", e, kinakailangan muna nating huwag laiitin ang sariling bansa.. doon magsisimula ang pagbabago sa bansa natin..
fireinyourheartisout (September 1, 2008 at 2:29 am)
i wish i could somehow help the country i came from AKA philippines
skylover16 (August 23, 2008 at 1:43 pm)
this is eye-opening.
i am from the philippines, i may not have fully-appreciated the issue of child labor yet but this video made me know a bit more about it. hopefully i'll be able to contribute something to solve it as I embark in a mission to understand the issue further. i'm sure i'm not alone in this mission. thanks again.