Medium:Colored biro on 12 x 12 inch purple Bristol board. This drawing illustrates but not limited or exclussive to the plight of a sacada wife/mother. In general this illustrates the poverty and the survival of the third wolrld mothers around the globe. Poverty rarely has a single cause. A range of factors including rising living costs, low pay, lack of work, and inadequate social security benefits together mean some people do not have enough resources. Sakadas (Spanish: los sacadas, Filipino: mga sakada, roughly "imported ones") is a term for migrant workers in and from the Philippines, doing manual agricultural labor. Within the Philippines, sakadas work in provinces other than their own. In the 20th century, Filipino men were imported by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association to Hawaii as "skilled laborers" from 1906 to 1946 mainly from the Ilocos region of the Philippines