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Grp.1 Alec Bukuhan, Raph Go, Ej Macaranas, Miko Gomzalez, Joey Aycardo, DenzelOlandez

Poverty Threshold, 20001Poverty Incidence

(families)Annual per capitaPoverty threshold

Daily per capitapoverty threshold

Philippines 34.2% P13,916.00 P38.13NCR 9.7% P18,001.00 P49.32Outside NCR 38.3% P13,239.00 P36.27Source of basic data: National Statistics Coordination BoardBelow is a table, which gives a numerical description of street children in areas other than theNational Capital Region2:

Region Cluster Cities Street ChildrenPopulation0-17 y. o.

Estimate ofHighly VisibleChildren

Estimate ofPopulation

LUZON Baguio 92,144 833 18,340Naga 57,646 423 3,163Olongapo City 72,210 301 1,225Regional Total 224,000 1,557 22,728

VISAYAS Cebu 768,686 2,867 23,061Lapu-Lapu 139,967 256 4,199Mandaue 150,381 1,420 4,511Bacolod 150,743 240 4,522Iloilo 152,245 508 4,567RegionalTotal

1,362,022 5,291 40,860

MINDANAO Cagayan De

Oro

188,350 1,070 5,651

Davao 437,056 1,694 13,112General Santos 151,294 1,014 4,539Regional Total 4,610,932 22,556 138,328

(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.

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(contributed by Ej Macaranas)

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

(contributed by Alec Bukuhan)

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People have been on the move since human life began. Migration is neither a newphenomenon, a failure of development, nor a substitute for developmentindividuals move as part of their effort to improve their lives and the lives of theirfamilies, 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 affectsthose who move, those who stay behind, and the places where they go. And with theadvent of globalization, labor migration has become a worldwide phenomenon. People

are crossing borders to search for better job opportunities and to provide a better futurefor their families. Along this development is the plight of more children being left behindby either one or both parents, leaving them to the care of extended family members orfriends. In Asia, the Philippines is the major supplier of labor migrants to over 100 countries andthe 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% oftotal migrants from Philippines were women workers. Many of these women work asdomestic helpers, nurses, caregivers, and entertainers. With this huge number of Filipinomigrants (and still more) living the country temporarily (or permanently), a morepressing concern is with regards to children left behind. Though there is no systematicdata on the number of children left behind, it is estimated to be 9 million or 27% of thetotal youth.

(contributed by Miko Gonzalez)

Currently, remittances are a major source of foreign exchange, particularly forcountries with fiscal deficits, external debts, huge trade imbalances and limited foreign-direct investment. However, these hard currency inflows may spur a real appreciation of theexchange rate which limits the development of export/import oriented industries. Hugeamount of remittance money may also blurs the urgency for economic reform and bettergovernance, while lulling OFWs family members, a greater portion of the Philippinecitizenry, into complacency.

Selected Characteristics 2010 2009Philippines (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 8.6II - Cagayan Valley 6.1 5.7

III - Central Luzon 14.4 14.7

IVA - CALABARZON 16.0 16.4

IVB - MIMAROPA 1.7 1.7V - Bicol 3.1 3.0

VI - Western Visayas 8.3 9.2

VII - Central Visayas 6.6 6.1VIII - 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 1.3Autonomous 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 threeyears towards services to families: from 237,009 families or 1.34 % of the total number of families in2004 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% in2007. After families, the next biggest groups of DSWD clients are children and women with the youthand the disabled/senior citizens as the smallest groups. Noticeable also was the big jump in women

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clients served by the DSWD in 2006. However, the DSWD has been serving much less than 1 per centof 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)