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World Vision Accepts Education Grant for Filipino Child Workers
 Word Vision on October 20 accepted a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to educate children removed from the worst forms of child labor in the Philippines.
"We'll help take Filipino children out of the fields and sweatshops and bring them into the classroom where they belong," said Bruce Wilkinson, Senior Vice President of World Vision. "Education is a fundamental strategy in reducing child labor and lifting children and their families out of poverty."
An estimated four million Filipino children under 18 – one in six children – work. Among the most common forms of child labor are mining/quarrying, domestic work, pyrotechnics production, agriculture, commercial sexual exploitation and deep-sea fishing. Some 60,000 children are engaged in the commercial sex industry.
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