CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 30 a post-Vienna, pre-Beijing forum focusing on prostitution and violence against women. The Network also seeks to mobilize government, non-government and people's organizations throughout the Philippines up to the barangay level to address these issues collectively. Drop-in centres 65. The Third World Movement Against the Exploitation of Women is a pioneer in giving prostituted women, mail-order and holiday brides, migrant workers and other exploited women a new lease on life and empowering them. It runs a chain of drop-in centres and homes in the Ermita/Malate tourist belt of Manila, in three other urban centres serving ship prostitutes, and in Quezon City (serving street hawkers, massage attendants). These centres respond to these women's economic, educational, physical, spiritual, psychosocial and cultural needs. 66. The Buklod drop-in centre was founded in Olongapo City by the National Council of Churches in the Philippines, the Mennonite Central Committee and the General Assembly Binding Women for Reform, Integrity, Equality, Leadership and Action (GABRIELA). For a time it ran night care for the children of bar women. As part of the Task Force on Amerasian Children, it works for the benefits due the Amerasians left behind by American servicemen. It has also shifted emphasis to socio-economic work with the acquisition of high-speed sewing machines from Japanese donors. 67. The Dayang Women's Center, also a drop-in centre for street prostitutes established in 1990 by the National Council of Churches and the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, works towards the empowerment of prostituted women through education, organization, advocacy, networking, research and documentation. 68. The Good Shepherd Sisters at Caritas Manila run the Morning Glory shelter for sexually exploited and abused children, including victims of rape, incest and paedophilia. Temporary shelter with therapy is offered to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. 69. In 1991, the Department of Social Welfare and Development developed Substitute Home Care for Women in Especially Difficult Circumstances, an institution-based programme which gives women temporary residential care to protect female victims of illegal recruitment, prostitution, battering and sexual abuse from further harm and to extend them support services. From 1991 to 1994, 2,852 cases of women in especially difficult circumstances have been served at the four existing substitute home care for women centres. Some 7,802 women, who need not be institutionalized, were managed by senior social workers of the Department right in their own home or community. 70. The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) provides counselling to prospective brides of foreigners, including those who have been propositioned via mail order and other marriage matching arrangements. Cases of abuse of Filipinas in Australia and in various parts of Europe have been on the rise. /...