PHILIPPINES: CALOOCAN PUBLIC CEMETARY IN MANILA IS HOME TO FIFTY STREET CHILDREN

Record ID: 987693

  • Title: PHILIPPINES: CALOOCAN PUBLIC CEMETARY IN MANILA IS HOME TO FIFTY STREET CHILDREN
  • Date: 7th December 1998
  • Summary: MANILA, PHILIPPINES (DECEMBER 3, 1998) (RTV) 1. WIDE OF CEMETERY 0.07 2. CU OLD STUFFED TOY ON TOP OF CROSS 0.12 3. MV CHILDREN SEATED ON TOP OF TOMBS 0.19 4. GV/MV TWO TEENAGERS , BERNARD (HAIR IN PIGTAILS) AND CHRISTINE WALKING IN THE GRAVEYARD (2 SHOTS) 0.31 5. MV OF BERNARD AND CHRISTINE MEETING OTHER CHILDREN SHELTERING IN A MAUSOLEM TOMB 0.39 6. SV CHILDREN SITTING/LYING ON FLOOR OF TOMB 0.45 7. SV CHILDREN PLAYING CARD GAMES 0.52 8. TV CHILDREN IN TOMB. BOY PULLING DOWN CLOTHES FROM RAILING OF TOMB 0.58 9. SV CHILDREN 1.03 10. SV CHILDREN SITTING OUTSIDE TOMB 1.11 11. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Filipino) BOY , BERNARD SAYING "Whatever case they face, I'll help them. Sometimes they're beaten up even if they didn't do anything wrong". 1.32 12. MV CHILDREN OUTSIDE MAUSOLEUM 1.36 13. SCU BERNARD SMOKING A CIGARETTE 1.43 14. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Filipino) CHRISTINE TALKING ABOUT MEN AND PROSTITUTION , SAYING "We'll give you 500 pesos, let's go to a hotel." 1.56 15. MV JENNIFER IN YELLOW SHIRT HOLDING HER STOMACH 2.06 16. GV CHILDREN INSIDE MAUSOLEUM 2.09 17. MV JENNIFER THREADING A NEEDLE 2.15 18. SV SHOE GLUE BEING POURED INTO PLASTIC BAGS (2 SHOTS) 2.23 19. SV/MV OF CHILDREN SNIFFING GLUE (3 SHOTS) 2.38 20. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) MEDICIN SANS FRONTIER (DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS) NURSE ROBERTO MURAI "All of them are drug sniffers. "Rugby" and "shabu" is quite normal among the streetchildren population in Manila. The impression we have, me and my staff -- their nutrition, is that they don't eat enough. They are fair to be considered in malnutrition but they eat maybe once a day and only rice and so they use drugs to forget they need food." 3.12 21. SV MURAI TREATING CHILDREN'S WOUNDS 3.20 22. SV SOCIAL WORKER TALKING TO A BOY BY A TOMB 3.24 23. SV MEDECIN SAN FRONTIERES ( MSF) VOLUNTEER GIVING OUT CONDOM TO YOUNG SEX WORKER (2 SHOTS) 3.32 24. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) YVAN HILDEBRAND, MSF CHIEF OF MISSION, SAYING "The roots of this problem it's not that the children are separated from the family. It's a question of poverty...you know social-economical roots...so these problems we cannot address...these problems will have to be addressed by the government and it needs long term plans." 3.52 26. LV CHILDREN IN ABANDONED CARNIVAL AREA 3.58 27. MV CHILDREN SNIFFING SHOE GLUE 4.06 28. LV/GV SHANTY TOWN WITH MODERN APARTMENT BLOCK IN THE BACKGROUND (2 SHOTS) 4.19 29. MV BERNARD HOLDING STUFFED TOY 4.28 30. WIDESHOT OF CHILDREN IN CEMETERY GLUE SNIFFING AND STANDING ON TOMBS (2 SHOTS) 4.39 31. SUNSET IN CEMETERY Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: MANILA, PHILIPPINES
  • Country: Philippines
  • Reuters ID: LVAA8WN3U2HC11O85ZSBWTTZBO71
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