CEBU, Philippines – The Philippines has one of the highest rates of child prostitution. The Archdiocese of Cebu's Congregation of 'Immaculate Mary Queen of Heaven Missionaries', IMQHM, are committed to helping them. 

The sisters transformed their house in Cebu into the 'House of Love', also called the MQHM Rehabilitation and Livelihood Training Centre, where they provide shelter, food, education, health care, counselling and job skills to former prostitutes. Their children also are welcomed. Currently, 20 victims of human trafficking are living with them. The Sisters are also helping to educate more than 800 students in elementary school and 275 in high school. The Immaculate Mary Queen of Heaven Missionaries have big plans to expand their mission by building a large complex that can house up to 500 women and children up to five years. By 2012, the nuns hope to introduce vocational courses and high school courses. The order, founded in 1996 by Sister Corazon Salazar, has eight professed nuns, 11 with temporary vows and three novices. Their charism – 'We are the extension of the heart and hands of the Good Shepherd looking for the lost sheep' – is lived, not only by rescuing women and children victims of prostitution from the streets, but also by breaking the cycle of poverty, the root cause of prostitution.