Philipines
MANILA STREET KIDS
8
June 2002
Studio text
You have no home, no food, no love. Your life is a continuous struggle for survival because you dont have any family to care for you. You earn money by begging and find a shelter in the dirty streets of Manila. For you, this seems to be an unthinkable state. But in the Philippines, thousands of streetchildren live just like this, or even worse. A Dutch couple took the daunting task to change this and started a home for these children. This home is still dependent on donations, but after five years this home is foreseen to become self-supporting in a special way. A report of Jan Peter Lahpor.
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0.04
An area in Manila. Here, along the railways, many people built makeshift shelters along the railroad tracks. Some live even on roofs of shacks built under railway platforms.
0.18
With the materials they salvaged from the trash, they built huts. Their living condition defines a nightmare. Many are unemployed or earning about a hundred Euro a month. People using cheap drugs is a usual sight to children, who happen to live here. The most common drug is petroleum glue.
0.43
In other parts of the city, luxurious apartments are being built, but most of these apartments are empty, because the rent is way too high for the common citizens to afford. In this metropolis, the capital of the Philippines, more than six million people are living. A large part of which can barely survive. The consequences are simply disastrous.
1.11
Thousands of children try to survive here daily. They dont have anything. They live far from the support of their family. Some ran away from their homes to escape abuse. The rest are orphans. These children become prone to all forms of social injustices, for they are viewed as an eyesore to Manilas dying campaign against poverty. Only a few of them escape this harsh reality, having been saved by a few caring people.
1.41 translation song
To be an orphan in the face of the earth
Is pitiful, in tears all the time
If life is like that, its better to die
So Id be in peace, unmindful of sorrow.
2.29
These children are lucky. The Dutch foundation Emergency Help Philippines is taking care of them. At present 15 orphaned and abandoned children found a home in this shelter.
2.43 quote A. Smidstra-Santiago Stichting Noodhulp Philippijnen (Foundation Emergencyhelp Philippines)
This is B one and this is B two. They never had a name when they found them. They were found in the carbagecan and according to the founder, they were really very small when they found them, very small just a baby and they have no name.
4.42 quote Smidstra
This is the first room. You can see they have no good bed. But the children dont like to have a mattress, so they prefer to have this because of the weather. But you see it is reasonable clean. They must clean it.
4.00
An initiative of a Dutch couple, the foundation provides shelter, food and education to these children. Like 17 year old Jeffrey. He has been living here for 3 years, after spending 10 years in the streets.
- quote Jeffrey
At the time that my mother died I go to the street and Im begging and selling anything to havemoney and I had a job it was very hard for me but when I dont have a job I dont have food. So we need to have a job.
5.41 quote Smidstra
This food is very nutricious. Because they are active. So they need a lot energy, so therefore many vitamines. They are expenrefore many vitamines. They are expensive actually.
-So how do you manage?
In order to manage it, I just give some money from my own pocket in order to make it 100 percent good.
5.04
Of the three buildings here, only one is currently occupied. At the most, 45 orphans can find a home here. But there is a lack of financial support. By starting a fishfarm, the foundation hopes to sustain the needs of the orphanage without the help of foreign benefactors.
5.21 Quote
We want to let this fish work out, so that we can have some really enough money to function all these buildings in order to get 45 children. As you can see that you can not really use it yet. It needs be to professionalised first. But we really need funds for that. Right now we dont have that, so we have to do something about that.
5.53
These kids shall live with the income generated from the proposed fishfarm. Six thousand Euros will be given by the government of the Netherlands trlands to initiate the project. It will take five years before the fishfarm can generate enough money to independently support the orphanage. Until then, donations have to be solicited to ensure a bright future for these children.
6.26
For the time being, such expectation is a far-off dream for this boy. The future for him and the thousands of other streetchildren remains hopeless. Their world for now depends on petroleum glue.
6.41 translation quote boy 1
It makes me forget about hunger. And it induces the right "trip".
7.00 translation quote boy 2
- Why are you sniffing petroleum glue?
It gives me a nice feeling. Because it makes my hunger go away. It gives the right trip.
7.11 translation song
To be an orphan makes one really pitiful
Always weeping, treated unfairly
If life is like that, its better to die
So Id be in peace, unmindful of sorrow.
MANILA STREET KIDS
8
June 2002
Studio text
You have no home, no food, no love. Your life is a continuous struggle for survival because you dont have any family to care for you. You earn money by begging and find a shelter in the dirty streets of Manila. For you, this seems to be an unthinkable state. But in the Philippines, thousands of streetchildren live just like this, or even worse. A Dutch couple took the daunting task to change this and started a home for these children. This home is still dependent on donations, but after five years this home is foreseen to become self-supporting in a special way. A report of Jan Peter Lahpor.
text item
0.04
An area in Manila. Here, along the railways, many people built makeshift shelters along the railroad tracks. Some live even on roofs of shacks built under railway platforms.
0.18
With the materials they salvaged from the trash, they built huts. Their living condition defines a nightmare. Many are unemployed or earning about a hundred Euro a month. People using cheap drugs is a usual sight to children, who happen to live here. The most common drug is petroleum glue.
0.43
In other parts of the city, luxurious apartments are being built, but most of these apartments are empty, because the rent is way too high for the common citizens to afford. In this metropolis, the capital of the Philippines, more than six million people are living. A large part of which can barely survive. The consequences are simply disastrous.
1.11
Thousands of children try to survive here daily. They dont have anything. They live far from the support of their family. Some ran away from their homes to escape abuse. The rest are orphans. These children become prone to all forms of social injustices, for they are viewed as an eyesore to Manilas dying campaign against poverty. Only a few of them escape this harsh reality, having been saved by a few caring people.
1.41 translation song
To be an orphan in the face of the earth
Is pitiful, in tears all the time
If life is like that, its better to die
So Id be in peace, unmindful of sorrow.
2.29
These children are lucky. The Dutch foundation Emergency Help Philippines is taking care of them. At present 15 orphaned and abandoned children found a home in this shelter.
2.43 quote A. Smidstra-Santiago Stichting Noodhulp Philippijnen (Foundation Emergencyhelp Philippines)
This is B one and this is B two. They never had a name when they found them. They were found in the carbagecan and according to the founder, they were really very small when they found them, very small just a baby and they have no name.
4.42 quote Smidstra
This is the first room. You can see they have no good bed. But the children dont like to have a mattress, so they prefer to have this because of the weather. But you see it is reasonable clean. They must clean it.
4.00
An initiative of a Dutch couple, the foundation provides shelter, food and education to these children. Like 17 year old Jeffrey. He has been living here for 3 years, after spending 10 years in the streets.
- quote Jeffrey
At the time that my mother died I go to the street and Im begging and selling anything to havemoney and I had a job it was very hard for me but when I dont have a job I dont have food. So we need to have a job.
5.41 quote Smidstra
This food is very nutricious. Because they are active. So they need a lot energy, so therefore many vitamines. They are expenrefore many vitamines. They are expensive actually.
-So how do you manage?
In order to manage it, I just give some money from my own pocket in order to make it 100 percent good.
5.04
Of the three buildings here, only one is currently occupied. At the most, 45 orphans can find a home here. But there is a lack of financial support. By starting a fishfarm, the foundation hopes to sustain the needs of the orphanage without the help of foreign benefactors.
5.21 Quote
We want to let this fish work out, so that we can have some really enough money to function all these buildings in order to get 45 children. As you can see that you can not really use it yet. It needs be to professionalised first. But we really need funds for that. Right now we dont have that, so we have to do something about that.
5.53
These kids shall live with the income generated from the proposed fishfarm. Six thousand Euros will be given by the government of the Netherlands trlands to initiate the project. It will take five years before the fishfarm can generate enough money to independently support the orphanage. Until then, donations have to be solicited to ensure a bright future for these children.
6.26
For the time being, such expectation is a far-off dream for this boy. The future for him and the thousands of other streetchildren remains hopeless. Their world for now depends on petroleum glue.
6.41 translation quote boy 1
It makes me forget about hunger. And it induces the right "trip".
7.00 translation quote boy 2
- Why are you sniffing petroleum glue?
It gives me a nice feeling. Because it makes my hunger go away. It gives the right trip.
7.11 translation song
To be an orphan makes one really pitiful
Always weeping, treated unfairly
If life is like that, its better to die
So Id be in peace, unmindful of sorrow.