The Children's Rehabilitation Center (CRC) is a non- stock, non-profit, non-government institution serving children and families who are victims of state violence in the Philippines. It focuses its services on children in the rural and urban areas who suffer physical health problems, emotional disorders, and social maladjustments due to such traumatic events as arrest, torture, forced displacement, strafing, bombing, massacre, disappearance, and other forms of human rights violations. CRC also provides immediate psycho-social aid to children and families who are affected by natural disasters and accepts referrals for children-victims of other social disasters on a case-to-case basis. [from their website.]
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This image is taken at a CRC workshop in Manila. This particular WS was attended by teenage girls who were accused of being gang members and beaten by the army, the Calubad girls, and the children of muslim men in Camp Bagong Diwa prison.
The CRC had a Dutch social worker volunteering with them and she conducted this mask making workshop. The kids loved it, but at the same time it exposed alot of vulnerability. They had to sit calmly while others applied the mask and in this quiet time you could see alot in their eyes.
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Karapatan 2007 Human Rights Report:
http://stopthekillings.org/stknpv2/files/karapatan_2007hr_report.pdf
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UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston report on the human rights condition of the Phils is a good introduction to the situation:
http://stopthekillings.org/stknpv2/?q=resources/60/alston%E2%80%99s-final-report-rp-extrajudicial-killings
CRC webpage:
http://members.tripod.com/~childrehab/home.html
