[1] VF is licensed and accredited by the Department of Social Welfare and Development to provide "residential care and community-based programs and services for women and children in especially difficult circumstances".
[3] Visayan Forum Foundation has been involved in helping women and children trafficked into prostitution by providing support, education, housing, and legal advice.
Visayan Forum Foundation has established that most of the children and young women trafficked to Manila from rural areas are in search of work and are assured jobs as domestic workers, but in a significant number of cases end up in the sex trade.
[8] On July 29, 2016 the Department of Justice issued a resolution dismissing and clearing Visayan Forum Foundation Officers and key staff on charges of Estafa through Falsification of Commercial documents filed by the NBI in connection with a USAID grant.
In August 2012, the NBI probed the foundation for allegedly falsifying documents to hide the misuse of at least $2.1 Million USAID grant for the organization's pioneering anti-trafficking work.
"I'm thankful to DOJ that after more than four years of patiently and humbly waiting to allow the work of the justice system to run its course, we can put this allegation behind us.