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1 Alec Bukuhan, Raph Go, Ej Macaranas, Miko Gomzalez, Joey Aycardo, Denzel Olandez
Poverty Threshold, 20001 Poverty Incidence Annual per capita Daily per capita (families) Poverty threshold poverty threshold Philippines 34.2% P13,916.00 P38.13 NCR 9.7% P18,001.00 P49.32 Outside NCR 38.3% P13,239.00 P36.27 Source of basic data: National Statistics Coordination Board Below is a table, which gives a numerical description of street children in areas other than the National Capital Region2: Region Cluster Cities Street Children Estimate of Estimate Population Highly Visible Population 0-17 y. o. Children 92,144 57,646 72,210 224,000 768,686 139,967 150,381 150,743 152,245 1,362,022 188,350 437,056 151,294 4,610,932 833 423 301 1,557 2,867 256 1,420 240 508 5,291 1,070 1,694 1,014 22,556 18,340 3,163 1,225 22,728 23,061 4,199 4,511 4,522 4,567 40,860 5,651 13,112 4,539 138,328 of

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(contributed by Raph Go)

What started as a stopgap measure to ease local unemployment and poverty some 30 years ago has become a major government program and a big factor in our countrys economy. With only 35,000 Filipinos deployed in 1975 when the program began, it has ballooned to 3.6 million as of December of 2004, not counting the 1.3 million irregular overseas workers. This is according to the Commission of Filipino Overseas (CFO) Stock Estimate of Overseas Filipinos. OFWs was able to send in $12.6 billion to the country in 2006, referring only to those sent through the banking system. This amount is estimated to be understated by an average of 30 percent because of funds sent through informal channels, according to BSP. $14.96 billion were sent by OFWs last year while $10.7 billion were sent in back in 2005.

(contributed by Ej Macaranas)
The Philippines Orphanage Foundation is committed to loving, serving and supporting the precious orphans of the Philippines. Considering there are approximately 1.8 million orphans throughout the country, we could throw a dart at a map of the Philippines and where it lands is a good place to plant an orphanage. If you take in consideration the square mileage of the Philippines and the estiamted number of orphans, the conclusion is staggering. We conclude there are approximately 15 orphans for every square mile of the Philippines. In other words, the need is great!

(contributed by Alec Bukuhan)

People have been on the move since human life began. Migration is neither a new phenomenon, a failure of development, nor a substitute for development individuals move as part of their effort to improve their lives and the lives of their families, to learn new skills, to gain new experiences, to find a job or to flee insecurity, disaster or famine. Migration is an economic, social and political process that affects those who move, those who stay behind, and the places where they go. And with the advent of globalization, labor migration has become a worldwide phenomenon. People are crossing borders to search for better job opportunities and to provide a better future for their families. Along this development is the plight of more children being left behind by either one or both parents, leaving them to the care of extended family members or friends. In Asia, the Philippines is the major supplier of labor migrants to over 100 countries and the leading female migrant sending countries along with Indonesia. More than 8 million (10%) out of the 85 million Filipinos were working or living abroad. While over 72% of total migrants from Philippines were women workers. Many of these women work as domestic helpers, nurses, caregivers, and entertainers. With this huge number of Filipino migrants (and still more) living the country temporarily (or permanently), a more pressing concern is with regards to children left behind. Though there is no systematic data on the number of children left behind, it is estimated to be 9 million or 27% of the total youth. (contributed by Miko Gonzalez)

Currently, remittances are a major source of foreign exchange, particularly for countries with fiscal deficits, external debts, huge trade imbalances and limited foreigndirect investment. However, these hard currency inflows may spur a real appreciation of the exchange rate which limits the development of export/import oriented industries. Huge amount of remittance money may also blurs the urgency for economic reform and better governance, while lulling OFWs family members, a greater portion of the Philippine citizenry, into complacency. Selected Characteristics 2010 2009 Philippines (in thousands) 2,043 1,912 Region 100.0 100.0 National Capital Region 13.8 13.9 Cordillera Administrative Region 1.8 2.1 I - Ilocos 9.5 8.6 II - Cagayan Valley 6.1 5.7 III - Central Luzon 14.4 14.7 IVA - CALABARZON 16.0 16.4 IVB - MIMAROPA 1.7 1.7 V - Bicol 3.1 3.0 VI - Western Visayas 8.3 9.2 VII - Central Visayas 6.6 6.1 VIII - Eastern Visayas 2.0 2.9 IX - Zamboanga Peninsula 2.3 2.2 X - Northern Mindanao 3.0 2.8 XI - Davao 2.8 2.8 XII - SOCCSKSARGEN 4.2 4.2 XIII - Caraga 1.4 1.3 Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao 3.1 2.4 (contributed by Denzel Olandez)
It is interesting to note that the clientele of the DSWD has dramatically shifted during the last three years towards services to families: from 237,009 families or 1.34 % of the total number of families in 2004 to 1, 387,260 or 7.35% in 2005 to 1,838,891 or 10.57% in 2006 to 1,200,210 or 6.44% in 2007. After families, the next biggest groups of DSWD clients are children and women with the youth and the disabled/senior citizens as the smallest groups. Noticeable also was the big jump in women

clients served by the DSWD in 2006. However, the DSWD has been serving much less than 1 per cent of the total population of the last four groups: women, children, youth and the elderly.

(contributed by Joey Aycardo)

Sources:
www.childhope.org.ph/situationer.doc (Raph Go) http://www.migrationinformation.org/images/yang_1.gif ( Ej Macaranas)

http://www.poea.gov.ph/stats/faststats.html (Ej Macaranas) http://www.filipino-orphans.org/committed/ (Alec Bukuhan) http://www.unicef.org/philippines/Synthesis_StudyJuly12008.pdf (Miko Gonzalez) http://mabuhaycity.com/forums/pinoys-abroad/9386-negative-effect-remittances.html (Denzel Olandez) http://www.census.gov.ph/data/sectordata/2010/of1002.pdf (Denzel Olandez) http://www.nscb.gov.ph/headlines/StatsSpeak/2008/090808_rav_wedc.asp (Joey Aycardo)