In the Philippines, the level of hopelessness among youth and children is growing at an exponential rate due to the declining social and economic state. Vast numbers of young people have resorted to the underworld for employment and survival; including drug trafficking, prostitution, and theft. Many youth aspire to work abroad, but only a small percentage will actually get the chance. Community leaders continually complain about the state of today's youth. The root cause of this hopelessness is a combination of poverty, high unemployment rates, lack of education, malnutrition, high debt, gambling, and medical problems. The lack of community programming dealing with these core issues is allowing an increasingly dissatisfied, angry, and despairing generation of urban poor youth and children to roam the streets.
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