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Bu-lat-lat (boo-lat-lat) verb: to
search, probe, investigate, inquire; to unearth facts
Vol. V, No.
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PHOTO ESSAY
Child Workers in Sugarlandia
In Negros, child
workers, numbering around 334,500 are engaged in various back-breaking
work, under slave-like conditions, away from their parents’ care and,
often, unprotected by the government.
TEXT AND PHOTOS by Karl Ombion
Bulatlat
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Children are supposed
to enjoy their childhood, develop themselves mentally and physically,
under the care of their parents. But millions of Filipino children, aged
17 years and below, give up their childhood and toil to survive. Lack of
livelihood and low wages force parents and older relatives to look the
other way when their children work.
 
In Negros, child
workers, numbering around 334,500 are engaged in various back-breaking
work, under slave-like conditions, away from their parents’ care and,
often, unprotected by the government.
 
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Their number
increases at an average 4.5 percent every year as Negros’
sugar-based monocrop economy takes further beatings from the government’s
full scale implementation of liberalization, deregulation and
privatization policies. Bulatlat
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