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LVF E-newsletter Number 11 (May 2015) 
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Combatting Child Labour ....UNILAB Anniversary Gift ....Video Workshop
Rights, Camera, ACTION !
Ten (10) kids from the Child Protection Clinic (CPC) on Wheels  produced their own advocacy video on child labor, a very effective tool to advance the issues of children in their own communities. Most of the kids scavenge along Taguig junkyards after school to fill help augment their parents’ income. This three-day workshop on video production and media literacy provided by the National Council on Children’s Television (NCCT) from May 4-6, 2015 taught the children participants to use media wisely and to always think twice on what they see in the social media in order to delineate reality from make-believe. The kids also learned the basics on formulating their story line and translate this into a short video clip using digital camera and a video editing software.Drawing on their day-to-day life struggles, the CPC kids came up with a very interesting sequence for their 1-minute video clip. Some kids became the actors and actresses while others served as the director and camera man.
On the occasion of UNILAB’s 70th anniversary celebration last May 15, executives of the pharmaceutical company awarded  LVF part of the proceeds of the goodwill games involving hundreds of UNILAB’s employees who purposely played for the benefit of street kids being served by the Laura Vicuña Foundation. Two other NGO’s were also beneficiaries.Representing LVF to receive the ceremonial check were its President Emeritus Sr. Felicidad M. Boado, FMA and Sr. Candy Carmen Balverde, FMA who is currently assigned as a Social Worker in its residential home for abused girls.
Combatting Child Labour
LVF was privileged to share its  work in combating child labor and convey the testimonies of child laborers in a Consultative Conference on Child Labor and Education in Subic, Zambales, organized by National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), ILO, DepEd and DOLE on May 25th-27th. LVF presented the actual experiences of child laborers in school and factors affecting their chances of completing basic education. One challenge is to keep child laborers in school until they finish their basic education, given the various reasons that pull them out of school such as bullying, stigmatization, lack of quality education. Another point raised was the increasing number of “inactive” youth or those who are NEET (not in education, employment nor training) who are likely to remain unproductive throughout their lifetime. Lack of quality education will produce graduates who are not competitive in the world of work , diminishing their chances of well paid employment and an inability to meet their families needs. On the issue of child labor, the DepEd is committed to help in profiling child laborers who are in school and detect potential child laborers who are most likely to drop-out in order to reach out to them.

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