Tambayan Center for Children's Rights, Inc.

SUMMER HOPE FESTIVAL 2012

CAMPAIGN FOR THE PROMOTION OF DIVERSION PROGRAM FOR CICL & INTERVENTION PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN AT RISK

(A campaign for the implementation of R.A. 9344 to target Barangays)

LATUS Receives Award  as Best Short Film  - International category.

Cannes Film Festival, France -- The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival has  awarded a trophy to Tambayan as producer of LATUS (see background story at CNN) that won the Best Short Film Award - international category. The awarding ceremony was held during the Cannes Film Festival in France last May 15, 2011.

“An important, unapologetic and poignant look at the effects of corporal punishment. The film’s campaign for safe, positive discipline at all times is very important.” (Nicole Holland, IFQ)

" NYIIFF's Stuart Alson said: Latus is a very powerful film that really deserves a wide audience. The Tambayan Center and director John Paul Seniel tackled the sensitive subject matter with skill.” Alson further states, “I was very impressed with the convincing cast members especially first-timer Analie Lucion as the abused adolescent Vicknelyn. ”

Cheers to our street kid -actors and script writers, director, co-director, and our supporters and followers!

For more story about Latus, please click here.

NUMBER OF CHILDREN DIRECTLY SERVED SINCE 2005

RED CARD AGAINST CHILD ABUSE !

Congratulations to Nakamata Kickers and Bgy 22-C Football Team for their successful participation in the Football for Good National Championship at La Salle Greenhills, Metro Manila.

There are around 3,000 children roaming the streets of Davao. Many of them are abused adolescent - being confronted with issues on prostitution & trafficking, juvenile justice, sexual abuse and lack of access to health & education. They are often descriminated by those who do not understand them. But still, like typical children, they are full of dreams and promise.

Tambayan works with around 300 of them at a given time , mostly street girls.

They are driven to the streets by these factors::

• Domestic Violence
• Lack of adequate food and shelter inside homes
• Dysfunctional family relations
• Physical and psychological abuse inside homes
• Poor parental guidance
• Idleness and lack of opportunities for formal schooling and other worthwhile endeavors
• Search for self-expression and sense of belongingness

In the streets they are encountering these vulnerabilities:

• child trafficking
• child prostitution
• sexual and physical abuse
• teenage pregnancy
• sexually transmitted infections
• drug abuse
• lack of access to education
• low self-self esteem
• become law offenders commit crime (CICL)
• accessory to criminal syndicates
• negative labelling and discrimination
• exposure to anti-social values
• drug abuse
• poor health and nutrition

These threats are present in all children. The unfortunate experience of abuses and neglect of many children both at home and in the streets makes them being considered as the most vulnerable among others. We have chosen to focus on street girls because their sufferings are much more than we can imagine compared to a typical child.

Moreover, their stories of struggle, endurance, resilliency are inspirational and may bring hope and lessons to familes whose children are experiencing to a certain degree, the same predicament these street children are facing daily in the streets. As one observer has noted: "If the wretched potential of a street child can be unleashed, then society will believe that all children -- including those who we simply called problem child, blacksheep, etc., --- can reach their full potentials."