Why are Filipino parents Selling Their Children, for $200US?

A sex tourism philippines report published by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) found that almost one in five foreigners travel to the Philippines for sexual exploitation.

Sex tourism philippines causes much human trafficking is a known worldwide problem commonly fueled by sexual desires and poverty. It is a known issue for people from the Philippines.

In 2013, the Philippines ranked fourth in the world for the number of sex tourists from countries such as Russia and Turkey. A recent UNICEF report indicates that the Philippines ranks number one globally when it comes to child pornography.

In most cases, this act is usually carried out by parents or siblings who force their kids to perform such acts. Children as young as five years old are forced to have sex with adults from foreign countries like US, UK, Australia and Canada.

Children in the Philippines are the victims of sex tourism Philippines. In 2014, a total of 1,878 children were reported kidnapped and trafficked across the country, accounting for nearly 50 percent of the total number of missing children.

The most affected areas are  Mindanao, Bagumbayan, Iligan, and Tuguegarao, which are home to most of the reported kidnappings and kidnappers. In December of the same year, a 12-year-old was kidnapped from Nueva Ecija, which is in the Southern Philippines.

The child was last seen in the Iligan District, a five hour bus ride.

Child Slavery/Pornography in the Philippines

Online chat rooms reveal the growth of sex tourism Philippines and how mothers are willing to sell their children within the ages of 6-10 years old to strangers from foreign countries for as little as $200 US dollars.

Sometimes their siblings fish around for clients on popular social media sites and approach them with offers asking them if they would like to play with their 8 or 9-year-old brother or sister and often times disturbing these “clients” as they call them constantly to buy their little siblings at a cheaper price.

Others ask for a live stream of these innocent kids playing with their private parts and some of these horrifying scenes are seen online. The sexual abuse these kids who often wake up weak, drugged, and bleeding from their privates.

The mothers who subject their kids to this unbearable pain hide behind the fact that it is unimaginable to even think or suspect that a mother would sell her children.

The United Nations reports that sex tourism Philippines is a growing local child abuse industry worth over $1Billion US and with thousands of children involved in this horrible act.

The Philippines Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has continued to warn about the continual increase in the cases of online trafficking and signs that it seems not to stop.

The people involved in these acts now use different stechniques to avoid detection by agencies and rescue groups.  Due to the limitations and lack of advanced technology some Philipines anti-child abuse groups and governmental agencies have their hands tied.

Because they cannot even see the transactions used on the ”Dark Web” by parents and gangs selling the lives of these innocent children. 

Economic Factors

To understand the root of sex tourism Philippines lets take a look at the country. The main cause of this and other issues like forced labor and sex trafficking within the Philippines are poverty, the demand for labor, and lack of education.

Poverty in the Philippines arose from a rapid rise in population. Most of this growth was in the rural areas. This led to an economic decline in the country.

A lot of Filipinos started to leave the country in search of greener pastures and this led to over 10 million Filipinos living and working abroad. Some of these immigrants leave the country in hopes of getting jobs and having a comfortable life.

While some may achieve their dream of moving abroad many others fall into the traps of youth prostitution in the Philippines, child slavery, child pornography, sex tourism, and human trafficking.

There is no way we will be able to completely eradicate human suffering but we can minimize the damage by preventing access to it. The key here is education and public awareness. Educate our children about the allure of fast and easy money.  

Education is vital to help address instances of child sexual abuse in the Philippines, as well as Thailand, Indonesia and Cambodia.

“Next Step Philippines”

There are various programs to address the problem of child sex pornography, some have not helped or limited the situation. “Next Step Philippines” is a group with the aim of recruiting and rescuing these girls both adults and children, and give them an education that would help pave the way for a brighter future.

The purpose of Next steps Philippines is to prevent the increase in prostitution, child pornography, and the youth form falling into the traps of modern-day slavery.  

Next Step Philippines understands that the prostitution traps from the sex tourism Philippines machine can only be stopped by proper education, college degrees, and sustainable income from Jobs.

 Next Step also protect the children from child prostitution, by educating parents, and the public about child pornography and its after-effects, which can be disastrous.  The Next step program also provides resources and advice to the parents, youth, and local churches.

To be able to achieve these, “Next Step Philippines” needs sponsors to help them reach their goal of rescuing and educating 160 students to educate and develop in the Philippines.

The soaring cost of Education and strong family financial needs is the main reason why many young people in the Philippines look for other alternatives to help support themselves and their family. 

Once this poverty problem is solved, it would cut down the rate of poverty and then sex tourism in the Philippines.  Sponsorships help provide the youth with a stable educational environment, safe accommodations, tuition, tutors, books, proper facilities, and positive association that boosts their self-esteem and helps their studies.

It is important that we join hands together and fight this “sinister epidemic” which holds back the development of our youth and education needed to end the cycle of poverty in the Philippines.

Your donation will go a long way in stopping the selling of these youth, educate the locals about child prostitution and the rise of the sex tourism industry in the Philippines.  You are our help donate here today.  <Donate>