Mining and Quarrying
- Labor-intensive, based on improvised low level technologies and methods
- Long hours, heavy loads, exposure to dust and chemicals (especially mercury), cave-ins
Domestic work
- Separated from their own families
- Work 15 hours a day, with or without wage
- Minimum wage is less than $15/month
- Vulnerable to physical and sexual abuse
- 90% are girls
- Some trafficked for labor/sexual exploitation
Pyrotechnics production
- High risk of injuries or loss of life due to highly flammable and combustible substances
- Complaints of dizziness, asthma, weight loss, sore eyes and backaches
- For 1,000 pieces of baby rockets, a child earns less than $1 a day
- Fixed salaried collect an average of 40 cents to $2 a day
Commercially and sexually exploited
- Young girls are prevalent but boys are increasing
- Many recruited from rural poor to work in urban areas, and abroad
Deep-sea fishing
- Work 12 to 15 hours a day, starting
- Pa-aling fishing trips take children away from families 9 to 10 months. Families receives cash advance in return
- Cuts, wounds, skin diseases, sore eyes and exhaustion
- Decompression symptoms, and harsh weather conditions at sea, high level of noise from mechanical machines
- Drowning and other underwater hazards
Sugarcane plantation
- Child workers in sugar plantations mainly children of sugar workers and peasants, living on and around haciendas
- Children are involve in all aspects of cane growing, harvesting and hauling
- 64% of the children working on sugarcane plantation are studying, but drop out from the school during the year
- off-season peril: vulnerable to recruiters who lure them to metro manila and abroad
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