Rise up, Philippines!
She has seen it happen, she said.
When a disaster strikes, young girls who come from good families—sheltered, vulnerable—would become orphans. Depraved men—and women—from the underworld, otherwise known as human traffickers, would circle them like vultures. In their fragile state, with no one to look after them, no one who knew who they were or where they came from, they would fall prey to that life.
The Philippines has just experienced a disaster and no one knows who is looking after the orphaned children.