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situation in HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking for
material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this
page and others to see which aspect(s) of street life are of particular
interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring how children got there, how they survive, and how
some manage to leave the street.
Perhaps your paper could focus on how some street children abuse the
public and how they are abused by the public … and how they abuse each
other. Would you like to write about
market children? homeless children? Sexual and labor exploitation? begging? violence? addiction? hunger? neglect? etc. There is a lot to the subject of Street
Children. Scan other countries as well
as this one. Draw comparisons between
activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
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for Teachers attached to this website. ***
FEATURED ARTICLES *** Children in Paul Salopek, articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-03-28/news/0403280349_1_angola-witchcraft-sorcerers [accessed 7 Aug 2013] Last month In Uige, a sleepy hill town near the Street children Eric Beauchemin, June 12, 2005 streetchildrennews.wordpress.com/2005/06/12/88/ [accessed 16 January
2017] "I didn’t like
being on the streets. Life was very hard," says 8-year-old Fato. She doesn’t know how long she spent there before
being taken in by a shelter in Street
Children Find Refuge In Sewers Dan McDougall,
Scotsman, 26 September 2003 news.scotsman.com/angola/Street-children-find-refuge-in.2464725.jp [accessed 28 March 2011] [accessed 15 August
2017] In the fading
evening light, the wide boulevards of Luanda are virtually silent but for a
ragged army of filthy street children running barefoot as they head home to
the sewers. Below the streets, in complex
sewers laid by the Portuguese settlers a century ago, a classic Dickens
nightmare is played out as the children and the rats compete for scraps of
food. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of
Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/angola.htm [accessed 19 January
2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - UNICEF estimated that 29.9 percent of children ages
5 to 14 years in Human
Rights Reports » 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78718.htm
[accessed 17 March
2020] CHILDREN
- The
INAC is responsible for child protection, but it lacked the technical
capacity to work without the assistance of international NGOs and donors. The
government had registered 1,500 homeless children in Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, November 3, 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/angola2004.html [accessed 19 January
2011] [68] The Committee
expresses its concern at the increasing number of street children in the
State party. It also notes with concern the generalized use of intoxicating
substances among street children. Children as young
as 6 face accusations of witchcraft Clara Onofre, Global Voices, 26 November 2008 globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/26/angola-children-as-young-as-6-face-accusations-of-witchcraft/ [accessed 28 March
2011] Makiesse is a survivor of a
disturbing phenomenon that has appeared in Mean streets hold
little magic for young African 'witches' Sharon LaFraniere, The New York Times, Uige
www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/world/africa/13iht-witches.4.8320813.html?_r=2 [accessed 28 March
2011] Domingos Pedro was 12 years
old when his father, a government worker in this isolated provincial capital,
died three years ago. His father's passing was sudden; the cause was a
mystery to doctors. But not to Domingos's
relatives. They gathered that
afternoon in his mud-clay house, he said, seized him
and bound his legs with rope. They tossed the rope over the house's 3-meter,
or 10-foot, high rafters and hoisted him up until he was suspended head-first
over the hard dirt floor. Then they told him they would cut the rope if he
did not confess to murdering his father.
"They were yelling, 'Witch! Witch!' " Domingos recalled, tears rolling down his face.
"There were so many people all shouting at me at the same time." "The witches
situation started when fathers became unable to care for the children,"
said Ana Silva, who is in charge of child protection for the children's
institute. "So they started seeking any justification to expel them from
the family." Since then, Silva
said, the phenomenon has followed poor migrants from the northern Angolan
provinces of Uige and Welfare Ministry
Offers Professional Courses to Street Children [accessed 16 January
2017] Over 100 street
children from Rangel district are being registered since Monday morning,
here, by the Municipal Department of the Assistance and Social Welfare
Ministry (Minars), to attend various professional
courses. The students are
aged between seven to 29 years, with 10 being females from 13 to 20 years
old. In Postwar Lynne Duke, The www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/25/AR2006082500337.html [accessed 28 March
2011] During my earlier
travels in Now, instead of
beggars, the streets are filled with hawkers, selling everything from bras to
batteries, key chains to chewing gum, flip-flops to axes, Kleenex to Rattex (rat poison). Our driver, Afonso
Kapembe, one day bought car floor mats and an iron while
idling at a traffic light. As for the street children, we didn't see any;
perhaps they are just less obvious than before. Instead, while searching for
an art shop, we stumbled into a school for the arts that was filled with
singing and dancing children -- the children of peace. Angola's
Children Bearing The Greatest Cost Of War Jenny Clover,
African Security Review Vol 11 No 3, 2002 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10246029.2002.9627974?journalCode=rasr20#.UgLI5qyS_Bw [accessed 7 Aug 2013] Street Children - Separated from
their families and unable to rely on kinship networks, they tend to organize
into smaller groups with an older child protecting younger children, socially
isolated in ghettoized buildings. Many are orphaned or abandoned; some have
left starving families or abusive environments. For children, survival
requires washing cars, carrying water, scavenging in dustbins or prostituting
themselves. Photo Essay: Text by Rod Booth,
Photos by Paul Jeffrey, Action by Churches Together ACT International, archive.act-intl.org/images/w-photos/photo_2002/angolaphotoessay.html [accessed 28 March
2011] Hundreds of
thousands of Angolan children have grown up in such surroundings, with access
neither to schooling or medical care. Children's
Life In BBC News, March 2004 www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/altogether/tech_north/angolaorphan.shtml [accessed 29 March
2011] The war left many
children orphaned in Some of the
children I saw were less than a year old, the older kids would search for
something to eat or beg for food at people's houses. Being an orphan in The future of An interview with
Mrs. Ana Paula dos At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 20 September
2011] What we have
achieved is like a drop of water in the ocean. No matter how much one gives
to these children, their needs are still much greater. It is important to
remember that many of the children that live in the streets today still have
their families. The problem is that these families lead a precarious life,
without anything to assure a dignified existence for the kids. Consequently,
the children end-up living in the streets. UN Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA Situation Report Center for
International Disaster Information, Monthly Analysis (October - November
2004), 20 December 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 20
September 2011] An effective
solution must be based on a sound and coherent social policy that protects
the rights of children, supports poverty reduction and increased access to education
as well as other essential basic services. GOAL- Angola GOAL - An international humanitarian organisation At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 20
September 2011] IN IV Day spirit
embraces UN Volunteers ( www.worldvolunteerweb.org/browse/countries/angola/doc/iv-day-spirit-embraces.html [accessed 29 March
2011] It is estimated
that thousands of homeless children are living in All
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