Related to the issue of child labor is the problem of child trafficking.  Child trafficking involves the recruitment and/ or transportation of young individuals from one geographical are to another, by means of deception, violence, threat, kidnapping, and other similar acts.

Trafficked children usually originate from poor communities in the provinces and end up in urban or more economically progressive communities.  They are more susceptible to exploitation and abuses since they live away from their families.  The detrimental effects of trafficking children, particularly girls, render imperative the immediate development of interventions that will address this problem.

Thus, this study hopes to provide additional information upon which actions against child trafficking can be based.  It also aims to provide an information base that will aid policy-makers and concerned government and non-government institutions in developing a more responsive policy or program interventions on the problem of child trafficking, particularly girls.