ABK3 LEAP and partners amplify call for a child labor-free sugar industry in...
“It’s difficult to work in sugarcane farms but I must sacrifice for the sake of my family,” remarked 17-year old John*. Working in the sugarcane farms since he was 12 years old, John is one of the 2.99...
View ArticleMaking life sweeter for sugarcane child laborers
Sugar is sweet, but the lives of children working in sugarcane plantations are far from it. “I was only 12 years old when I started working at the farm to augment my family’s income. My job was to...
View ArticleVideo Documentary: Buhay Sacada
Watch this short documentary about the plight of sugarcane migrant workers or Sacadas in the Philippines, based on the research of UPSARDF for the ABK3 LEAP Project. ABK3 and our partners call for an...
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Saving brings hope to sugarcane farm workers
It was a cloudy and humid Saturday afternoon. A group of 20 people, mostly women, gathered in a circle at the back of the chapel in the barangay, a metal box in their midst. Some of them had come...
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ABK3 LEAP communities prepare for project close-out
ABK3 LEAP is soon to end in Mlang, North Cotabato after four years of working with the communities to reduce child labor in sugarcane farms in the 4 covered barangays of Katipunan, Liboo, New Rizal and...
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National Bookstore upgrades school library in Moises Padilla
Child labor deprives the children of their rights to quality education and hinders them from achieving their full potential. Promoting children’s rights and participation through a safe and healthy...
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Leveraging government funds to sustain livelihoods of parents of child laborers
A total of 25.9 million worth of DOLE’s DILEEP grants have been accessed by ABK3 LEAP partner BLGUs to provide livelihoods assistance to 4,182 households. This initiative is part of the project’s...
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ABK3 LEAP Barangays declared Child Labor Free
21 ABK3 LEAP partner barangays in Negros Occidental are now Child Labor-Free. Regional Director Ponciano Ligutom awarded the certificates to the Punong Barangays at the DOLE Region 6 Negros Occidental...
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ABK3 LEAP Project celebrates WDACL with sharing of good practices in reducing...
Sugar is sweeter without child labor – the United States Department of Labor funded ABK3 LEAP Project reiterates its call to end hazardous child labor in sugarcane plantations as it celebrates this...
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Child labor project turns over database of beneficiaries to DOLE
Sugar is sweeter without child labor. Child labor project ABK3 LEAP concludes its 5-year implementation with the turn-over of its database of assisted children and households to the Department of Labor...
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