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Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children In the first ten years of the 21st
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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - Several Bulgarian localities established programs
integrating children of Roma ethnicity into schools. In order to
increase Roma attendance, the government and NGOs provide subsidies for
schooling expenses such as school lunches, books, and tuition fees. With support from USAID, the Government of
Bulgaria conducts additional ethnic integration efforts. The government has also provided funding
for additional teaching assistants, usually from minority ethnic groups, to
be placed in classrooms with Roma and Turkish students. The World Bank is funding a child welfare
reform project in Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Widespread poverty led many
Romani children to turn to begging, prostitution, and petty crime on the
streets. In December 2004 the SACP reported
that 625 children were known to be either living or working on the streets
and were primarily involved in begging, prostitution, or car window washing;
approximately 400 of these children were believed to be exploited for labor
by adults, although experts believed that actual figures were higher. There
were reports that approximately 225 children lived and worked on the streets
without the involvement of a trafficker, pimp, or other third party. Many of
these children had been abandoned by their parents or sent by their families
to urban areas to seek work. The NSI reported a 68 percent increase from 2003
to 2004 in the number of children registered by police for vagrancy and
begging: 1,785 children in 2004, compared to 1,059 in 2003. As part of the
national strategy for street children, SACP continued implementing the
programs it initiated in 2003 to address the situation of street children.
One of these programs included putting street children in protective custody.
In the first nine months of the year, the MOI placed 274 children involved in
begging and vagrancy in five special shelters for street children; in 2004
496 such children were sent to these shelters. The shelters were intended to
serve more as immediate protective resources than facilities for long‑term
or intermediate care. They provided food, bathing facilities, and basic
medical care, but children were usually not kept for more than 24 hours
unless remanded to protective custody by the special order of a prosecutor Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) - 1997 [11] With regard to the
implementation of article 4 of the Convention, the Committee notes with
concern the inadequacy of measures taken and the insufficient capacity of
existing bodies, including the Youth and Children Committee, to ensure the
implementation of children's economic, social and cultural rights to the
maximum extent of available resources. The Committee is particularly
concerned at the insufficient policies, measures and programs for the
protection of the rights of the most vulnerable children, especially children
living in poverty, children born out of wedlock, abandoned children, disabled
children, children who are victims of abuse, children belonging to minority
groups, especially Roma, and children who, in order to survive, are living
and/or working in the streets. Human Rights Watch - Street Children www.hrw.org/children/street.htm At one time this article had been
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In Bourgas new komplex to help children Bourgas mayor Yoan
Kostadinov officiated at the April 12 opening of a new
day care centre for street children. The main goal of the centre will
be to assist children who live and work on the streets and to prevent them
from dropping out of school. It will offer emergency help to street children,
including clothes, food and shelter. WHAT WAS
THE PURPOSE FOR CREATING THE STREET CHILDREN PROGRAM? - The children and youth are free
to come and leave whenever they want since it's not an orphanage or an
institution. However, once there they get assistance, food, shelter where
they can spend the night, and they have educators who teach them how to read,
write, and to draw. Since a normal Bulgarian school is situated nearby, the educators
help them go to school so that some capable children are sent there and
others are sent to boarding schools in the country. Basically out of 100
percent a third are happy kids being educated, a
third go back to their families, and unfortunately a third go back to the
streets. Once on the streets they are
open to all the violence and horrible things that happen such as skinheads,
child prostitution, and drugs. These incidents do not only occur in Faith, Hope and Love Center
for Street Children SOCIAL
REHABILITATION.
Street life impedes the formation of a positive self-conception, leads to
interpersonal relationship problems, to the formation of false perceptions
about the structure and functions of society. The Center provides qualified
psychological and social assistance for overcoming the above consequences.
The daily routine is aimed at forming basic notions of social life, of understanding
and learning moral norms, rules and values, interpersonal communication
skills corresponding to the children's age, motivation for maintenance of a
pro-social behavior. Children of This article has been archived by
World Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] Children in Save the
Children Moves in to Help Children in Bulgaria - A Country in Crisis Parents who cannot afford to buy
enough food and fuel to feed and warm their children are faced with one
terrible way out: many have already put their offspring into the hundreds of
state orphanages, countless others will do so in the
months ahead. These institutions, some well run, some dilapidated and dirty,
are themselves facing a crisis as the government's ability to maintain them declines. All material used herein
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