Mindanaotoday.com | DOLE-10 CDOFO, World Vision Foundation Inc. intensify multi-sectoral efforts against child labor
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The City of Golden Friendship is one of the pilot cities in the implementation of the World Vision’s Project Against Child Exploitation (Project ACE) along with the three barangay governments.
Cagayan de Oro was this year’s host for the regional partners review and assessment at Chali Resort, Cugman, this city, on March 29-31.
The three-day event aimed to determine milestones from the 2022 joint call to action statements and sustainability roadmap.
With reports from DOLE-National Capital Region, LGU-Quezon City, Philippine Chamber of Commerce, DOLE-10, LGU Cagayan de Oro City, DSWD-10, NEDA-10, PNP ACU-10, and CSWD among many other participating organizations and agencies.
Currently, the crusade in curbing Worst Forms of Child Labor (WCFL) and Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children (OSAEC) with the collaborative initiative of authorities and organizations from both the private and public sectors have gained momentum.
For Cagayan de Oro City, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE-10) spearheaded by Regional Director Albert Gutib was proud to report that the region, through Cagayan de Oro Field Office led by Provincial Director Emmanuel Toledo has been very proactive in their implementation of the Child Labor Prevention and Elimination Program (CLPEP) whose parents of profiled child laborers were given livelihood assistance and emergency employment under the DOLE Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program – who are now actively attending their different business enterprises.
In addition, DOLE-10 CDO FO will be releasing P30,000.00 worth of individual starter kits to 100 parents of child laborer (PCL) as a long-term, profitable solution to prevent their children from repetitively engaging in hazardous age-inappropriate labor.
Through a sustainable livelihood, their parents will be able to elevate their economic circumstances without compromising the growth and education of these profiled children.
As Toledo has recounted, there will always be cases of child labor and exploitation as long as poverty prevails.
As an organization that also champions for the welfare of children’s rights, in convergence and partnership with Project ACE partners, the call for organizations to be educated and converged at the forefront in order to combat evolving forms of exploitation among children only gets stronger — now that there are visible results from initial efforts. (DOLE-10)
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