Human Trafficking in [Angola] [other countries]Street Children in [Angola Child Prostitution in [Angola] [other countries] |
Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children The |
|
CAUTION: The following links and
accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation
in Quick
Search for Missing Children - Select
Gender, Country ( UNICEF - The Big Picture U.S.
Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - UNICEF estimated that 29.9 percent of children ages 5 to 14 years
in Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006 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 Luanda, but other estimates of
their number were much higher. An estimated 10,000 children worked in the
streets of Luanda, but returned to some form of dwelling during the evening.
Most of these children shined shoes, washed cars, carried water, or engaged
in other informal labor, but some resorted to petty crime, begging, and
prostitution. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2004 [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. Mean streets
hold little magic for young African 'witches' 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 Zaire to the slums of the fast-growing
capital, Luanda. Two recent cases horrified officials there. In June, Silva
said, a Luanda mother blinded her 14-year-old daughter with chlorine bleach
to rid her of what she thought were evil visions. In August, a father
injected battery acid into his 12-year-old son's stomach because he feared he
was a witch, she said. Welfare
Ministry Offers Professional Courses to Street Children 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 Angola, Glimpses of an Emerging Country During my earlier travels in
Luanda, the city smelled moldy and rancid, in part from mounds of fetid
garbage pilled high on the streets. By night, I saw legions of street
children -- war orphans -- sleeping on sidewalks beneath newspapers or tarps.
By day, they darted in and out of traffic, begging along with the ubiquitous mutilados (war amputees mutilated by land mines) who
leaned on crutches at roadside. 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. Street children - June 12, 2005 "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 Luanda. The number of children living on the streets of Angola’s towns and cities is increasing. Some of the kids lost their parents during the war, others fled extremely poor or abusive families, and yet others had to run away after being accused of witchcraft. Street
Children Find Refuge In Sewers In the fading evening light, the
wide boulevards of Angola's Children Bearing
The Greatest Cost Of War 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: Angola - Life From The Ashes Of War Hundreds of thousands of Angolan
children have grown up in such surroundings, with access neither to schooling
or medical care. The lucky children have found a
family to look after them. When the unlucky children die they will be buried
like rubbish. An
interview with Mrs. Ana Paula dos Santos, Angola's First Lady 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 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. IN LUANDA GOAL IS IMPLEMENTING THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS:
STREET CHILDREN: GOAL
provides basic medical support to some 600 street children and also offers
them counseling and recreational activities. IV Day spirit embraces Luanda’s street children It is estimated that thousands of
homeless children are living in Angola’s capital. Products of war, Luanda’s
street children resort to begging and working small jobs in order to survive.
Many are victims of sexual and physical abuse. All material used herein
reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC §
107 for noncommercial, nonprofit, and educational use |
Human Trafficking in [Angola] [other countries]Street Children in [Angola Child Prostitution in [Angola] [other countries]