August 11th, 2010, I went with two other sisters, one an ex-pat wife of the volunteer attorney, Sister Wright and Sister Durfey of Public Affairs to a meeting function of the American Women's Club of the Philippines. The featured speaker was Harry Thomas Jr., the American Ambassador to the Philippines. He is an African American Man who is kind, generous and caring. Not to mention he is a very educated intelligent man. He spoke about a major concern here in the Philippines which is "Human Trafficking". Non-employment here in the Philippines is high, thus human trafficking is a problem. He told of the volunteer organizations that are helping the Philippines here to raise the education and establish reasonable and worthwhile jobs here so Human Trafficking would not be an option. He spoke of the forthcoming of 140,000 volunteers arriving next week from various organizations. He is not aware of the Church's presence here and would like to meet the Area President which I think I will get things going on this. Ambassador Thomas is new to his position here so I am thinking he hasn't got around to what the church does here. I am going to be proactive on this.
Ambassador Thomas said that the problem of Human Trafficking is so syndicated that fewer than 8 arrests have been made on this problem. Foreign men are coming here and marrying Filipino women and then putting their financial assets in their wives names so that they cannot be proven for any money earned in Human Trafficking. Tragic.
Ambassador Thomas said that the problem of Human Trafficking is so syndicated that fewer than 8 arrests have been made on this problem. Foreign men are coming here and marrying Filipino women and then putting their financial assets in their wives names so that they cannot be proven for any money earned in Human Trafficking. Tragic.
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