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Visayan Forum Foundation

Speakers

  • Survivor, Visayan Forum Foundation
    Ailyn Capacite Bulfa was only 14 when she was trafficked. She was promised a job as a domestic worker, but ended up in a slave-like situation. She was able to escape with three other girls with the help of Visayan Forum Foundation. Today, she is back in school and is a youth leader of a movement of domestic workers. She is helping trafficking victims recover from trauma, living as an example of resilience and advocating policy reforms to protect Filipino migrant workers.
  • Development Specialist, Visayan Forum Foundation
    Kip Oebanda, MDM, works on strategy, international networking and organisational development for the Visayan Forum in the Philippines. Kip was born in prison during the Marcos dictatorship. At 12, he led the first child-run radio programme in the country and won national media awards. At 14, he spoke at international conferences on children’s rights and established CLASP, an organisation of child labourers and advocates. The government recognised Kip through such awards as the Ninoy Aquino and Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines.
  • Cecilia is a Skoll awardee in 2008 in Oxford. She considered an international expert in Human rights Activists and a Freedom fighter. She is the Founder of Voice of the Free is a hybrid organization that combines social care, social entrepreneurship, Advocating for policy reforms and mobilizing social movements to achieve lasting solutions. Cecilia was appointed by the two Philippine Presidents to the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking and served for six years. AICAT is a high-level policy-making body duly constituted by law to oversee the implementation of the country’s anti-trafficking policies, programs, and services. Similarly, she was also a member of the Presidential Task Force Against Illegal Recruitment during the Aquino Administration. Just recently retired as the CEO of Voice of the Free, Cecilia is now serving as an Advisory Board of the global movement Freedom United based in London. She is also an Advisory Council of Telos Governance Agency based in London and in the USA. Cecil also serves as a Jury of the Innovator Award of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.