Our Vision, Mission, Goals, and 10-Point Strategies

Vision

A society where marginalized migrants, especially the invisible working children, are free and empowered.

Mission

Asian in perspective and local in context, Visayan Forum is a Philippine-based national NGO that seeks to mobilize national efforts by:

• Advocating for policies and programs that sustain long-term social changes involving children, communities and other social partners
• Providing specialized care for migrants at risk, especially invisible working children such as child domestic workers and trafficked children
• Organizing working children, advocates, and other stakeholders
• Modeling community-based integrated programs that deal with the root causes of child labor, trafficking and migration

Goal

To contribute to the protection and development of marginalized migrants, especially domestic workers, trafficked women and children through:

• Provision of protective care services
• organizing and capability-building, with special actions with employers' associations, educational and religious institutions, and the media
• Legal actions, and legislative and policy reforms
• Community-based preventive and sustainable actions
• Establishment of resource centers
• Networking and Linkaging

10-Point STRATEGIES

1. Providing specialized care, educational opportunities and legal support to abused migrants.
2. Organizing and training marginalized migrants, especially children.
3. Lobbying for the passage and enforcement of magna carta for househelpers, child labor and other related bills, that will protect both the interests of working children and their families.
4. Setting-up resource centers to disseminate basic data and information, to facilitate exchanges and to encourage culturally-sensitive researches.
5. Working with local and national institutions such as local government units (LGUs), employers' associations, religious groups, educational institutions and the media.
6. Linking with international solidarity and actions, with special focus to help generate efforts in Asian countries.
7. Modeling and replicating innovative community-based children's programs anchored on stakeholders' ownership of their child watch networks.
8. Institutionalizing preventive, protective, and proactive mechanisms in entry-exit points of trafficking such as ports.
9. Setting-up and sustaining socio-economic programs such as microfinance initiatives.
10. Capability-building for staff and care-givers.