While there is no available date specific to child labor in sugarcane for the entire country, ABK3 LEAP’s baseline date in Negros Occidental documented 30,760 households with children working in sugarcane farms in 60 barangays within 15 cities/municipalities, the press release also said.
ABK3 LEAP’s Child Labor Monitoring System, is a tool that can track child labor situation in the community using the Nokia Date Gathering software installed in mobile phones, it also said.
The NDG, which has been piloted and used by over 300 organizations around the world to collect field date, enables paperless date gathering facilities a faster, real-time transmission of collected date for analysis, it said
Mayors, MSWD and Planning Officers of the 15 ABK3 LEAP covered cities/municipalities, which are Bacolod City, Cauayan, Escalante City, Kabankalan City, La Castellana, Manapla, Moises Padilla, Murcia, Sagay City, San Carlos City, Silay City, Talisay City, Toboso and Victorias City, and PCRWC members are expected to join the launching.
ABK3 LEAP project is implemented by a consortium of organizations led by World Vision Development Foundation, in partnership with ChildFund Philippines, Educational Research and Development Assistance Foundation, Inc. Sugar Industry Foundation. Inc. Community Economic Ventures, and University of the Philippines Social Action and Research for Development Foundation Inc., the press release said.
Funding for the ABK3 LEAP project was provided by the United States Department of Labor, it added.*
July 2025
Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines
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