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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
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activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
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the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
FEATURED ARTICLES *** Street Children On
The Increase In Douala Joe Dinga Pefok, Up www.postnewsline.com/2006/06/street_children.html [accessed 22 April 2011] CRIME WAVE
- If
the authorities are getting worried about the increase in the number of
street children, it is because of the rising crime wave in the city,
involving many street children. These children mostly hang out in the busy
commercial streets of Akwa during the day and sleep at the corridors of the
commercial buildings in the night. Street children are
said to mostly start off as 'pick pockets'. With time, they gain more and
more experience, and eventually move into big robbery operations. Most of
those who grow to start participating in big banditry operations are said to
leave the street for hotels, or put up with women. The Impact Of Home
Background On The Decision Of Children To Run Away: the case of Yaounde City
street children in Cameroon Matchinda B., www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10219943?dopt=Abstract [accessed 22 April 2011] OBJECTIVE: This study sets
out to investigate the phenomenon of street children and its relationship to
their home background. The project stemmed from the fact that there is an
enormous increase of children nowadays roaming the streets. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/cameroon.htm [accessed 26 January
2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - According to a study conducted in 2000 by the ILO,
the Ministry of Labor, and NGOs, children in Cameroon work in the
agricultural sector; in informal activities, such as street vending and car
washing; as domestic servants; in prostitution; and in other illicit
activities. The ILO has found that 7
percent of working children in the cities of Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61558.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] CHILDREN
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Although exact numbers were unavailable, the country had a significant number
of displaced or street children, most of whom resided in urban areas such as Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 12 October 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/cameroon2001.html [accessed 26 January
2011] [62] The Committee
expresses its concern at the increasing number of street children and at the
lack of specific mechanisms to address this situation and to provide these
children with adequate assistance. [63] The Committee
recommends … Elvis Tah, The Post (Buea), 28 April 2008 streetchildrennews.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/cameroon-govt-to-rehabilitate-street-children/ [accessed 16 January 2017] Apart from mad
people that wander about the streets, many children are increasingly joining
them. They are found mostly inhabiting bus stops and video game houses. Some
of these street children sleep on the verandas of off-licences and bars, and
in abandoned or uncompleted houses. In
Douala, the Catholic Cathedral seems to be providing a safe haven for them
where many have their beddings under a tent, where they retire from their
daily activities to doze. These street
children come from different backgrounds and for various reasons; those who
break up from their families because of disequilibrium and those who get to
the streets because they have a misunderstanding with their benefactors or
masters. Some of such children are of
Nigerian origin who are brought to The second category
of street children are those who are actually living with their parents or
guardians but are out of school, probably to hawk and supplement the family
income. The third category is of Arab
extract that move along with their mothers, in markets and strategic places
to beg for money. Street children: a
collective responsibility Pamela Bidjocka, Editor, www.crtv.cm/cont/nouvelles/nouvelles_sola_fr.php?idField=579&table=nouvelles&sub= [accessed 22 April 2011] streetchildrennews.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/street-children-a-collective-responsibility/ [accessed 25 November 2016] The Ministry of
Social Affairs has launched a nation wide campaign to recuperate street
children in all major towns in Cameroon.
Within the framework of the project, employment and social assistance
shall be made available to the street children in other to facilitate
integration within their various families. The project which is in its pilot
phase shall focus on some 800 children. Pickpockets Invade streetchildrennews.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/cameroon-pickpockets-invade-yaounde-streets/ [accessed 16 January 2017] Taxi drivers are
the target of the new breed of bandits.
Its 10:30 am in Yaounde. The famous Avenue Kennedy is as busy as
usual. Teponno Martin, (49) a taxi driver in Yaounde, finds it difficult to
collect pick up passengers. He can barely hear the destinations of passengers
because all the car windows are winded up. It is normal. There are pick
pockets around. He recounts that he has been a victim of robbery twice. In
the first incident, the sum of CFA 5000 was stolen from his vehicle.
According to him, the children surround the vehicle and use tactics to
distract the driver and before he knows it, they have made away with any
thing they can lay hands on. PMUC Stays With
Street Children Joe Dinga Pefok, Up www.postnewsline.com/2006/01/pmuc_stays_with.html [accessed 22 April 2011] The General Manager
of Pari Mutuel Urbain Camerounais, PMUC, Jean-Dominique Casamarta, recently
reassured the management of Foyers Saint-Nicodème, a chain of homes for
children taken off the streets in Samuel Ngnitedem -
Association Emmanuel du Cameroon ASHOKA Fellows, 1995 www.ashoka.org/fellow/2312 [accessed 22 April 2011] www.ashoka.org/en/fellow/samuel-ngnitedem#intro [accessed 25 November 2016] THE PROBLEM - Yaounde, the
capital city of Cameroon, is estimated to have well over 1,000 street
children, and another major city, Douala, has an even larger number. In
virtually every major urban area, the problem of displaced children is
becoming acute. Populations of "hidden" street children can be
found living in groups under bridges, in abandoned buildings and even in open
fields around Reports to Treaty
Bodies - Committee on the Rights of the Child Human Rights Internet, For The Record 2001, Volume 2, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 22 April 2011] Other points of
concern included: the possible use of inter-country adoption for the purpose
of trafficking; the increasing number of street children and the lack of
specific mechanisms to address this situation and to provide these children
with adequate assistance How The Circus Came
To Cameroon's Street Children [access information unavailable] Most of the young
people come from underprivileged environments where violence is an everyday occurrence.
They have found asylum on the streets, which have become home to them. But
it's a dangerous kind of asylum. Street Children In October 19, 2001 nalexstanley.tigblog.org/archive/10_2001 [accessed 22 April 2011] The streets of Street Children and
(AIDS)-Orphans project International Relief Friendship Foundation, ANAYA-Initiative for
Street-Children and Orphans in At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 22 April 2011] 4. PROJECT
DESCRIPTION, OBJECTIVES: THE
OBJECTIVES OF THE SAFE HOUSE ARE -
Provide a safety zone for displaced children from the hours of 9:00 pm
through 5:00 am. During these hours the building will be open and services
provided to the children in need. This time frame has been chosen due to the
fact that children on the streets are most at risk during this period. All
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