CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 33 non-governmental organizations and the deployment of social workers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport to monitor minors travelling abroad. 87. In 1992, the Mayor of Manila forcibly closed down 130 bars, cocktail lounges and entertainment centres known to be fronts for prostitution in the tourist belt of Ermita, Manila. 88. Kalayaan, a feminist group in Angeles City, has organized, trained and provided credit to a small pilot cooperative of bar women around the former base areas who generated income from operating food stalls. 89. The Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation, Inc., a Methodist project, gives skills training and capital for small entrepreneurs, among whom are women who want to leave prostitution. The Nazareth Growth Home of the Third World Movement Against the Exploitation of Women also prepares those who leave prostitution for an alternative livelihood. 90. The Daughters of Charity offers land and housing to women who have left the trade. Through them, atrocities of child prostitution have been exposed. 91. Migrant groups such as KANLUNGAN, KAIBIGAN and MIGRANTE also provide legal services and counselling to trafficked women or migrant women who are victims of abuse. 92. The paucity in the number of victims served by all these services and efforts is more than made up for by the "demonstration effect" of successful intervention schemes which empower even just a few and give them a new lease on life. 93. However, while concerned groups are many and policy issuances are in place, the problems remain major. The chapter on prostitution in the Philippine Plan for Gender-responsive Development identifies among others the following strategies for a holistic response to the problem: creating wider employment opportunities for women, particularly in rural and urban poor areas; conducting a critical review of existing tourism programmes; review of labour legislation for possible loopholes that make young women workers insecure and vulnerable to prostitution; initiation of bilateral relationships to address the problems of migrants and the trafficking of third world women and to gain criminal jurisdiction over foreign sex offenders; and campaign against sexism in the media, sensationalism in the treatment of sexuality and pornography in any form. /...