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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
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Domestic violence
on the rise Miri Hasson, Yedioth Internet-ynetnews.com, November 3, 2005 www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3163867,00.html [accessed 2
June 2011] Ilanit Barbi, the director of the newly-founded Adi Center for Girls, explained that "there are
currently no appropriate frameworks for girls in the community, which can
provide both an alternative for school and for home. As a result of this,
more and more girls end up wandering the streets, and their situation
consequently worsens." ***
ARCHIVES *** Runaways
- Where To Turn For Help Before You Are Homeless Rebeccas Community -- This
is for anyone aged up to 13 years old who is thinking about running away www.homeless.org.au/runaways.htm [accessed 1 June
2011] Here are the best
phone numbers to call …They are Confidential - which means they won't tell anyone
about your call unless you want them to talk to somebody for you, or you are
in danger. They are open 24 Hours - it
doesn't matter what time you call. In
Israel, call 1-800-654-111 Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61690.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] The minimum employment age is 15, and there are special conditions for
employment between 15 and 18. The law prohibits minors from working at night,
hard labor, and travel beyond their domicile. However, many underage children
worked in family farms and shops, as street vendors, or in small
manufacturing enterprises. ELEM - Youth In
Distress in Israel Elem www.elem.org/programs/outreach-vans.php [accessed 2
June 2011] [accessed 18
December 2016] OUR
PROGRAMS -OUTREACH VANS
- The “Children of the Night” vans operate in city back streets where runaway
youth congregate. The vans sweep through public parks, beaches, and
entertainment centers, abandoned areas and prostitution haunts where
poverty-stricken children loiter. Van personnel, professional and volunteers,
offer immediate help to homeless and drifting youngsters. Live & Learn -
Rehabilitating Israeli Youth www.learnandlive.org.il/ [accessed 9 May
2012] 40% of Israeli
youth live below the poverty line More than 70,000
Israeli youth are regular drug users. Israel has seen a 20%
increase in drug-related crimes involving minors, as well as an increase in
violent incidents in schools. More than 25% of
homeless youth in Israel are female, with many drawn into the sex industry as
a means of survival. Boyz in the 'hood Tali Heruti-Sover,
Haaretz, 28.05.2009 www.haaretz.com/news/boyz-in-the-hood-1.276860 [accessed 2
June 2011] And manage they did.
'The daily need to survive made you develop sharp instincts,' recalls Moshe Kahlon. 'From a very young age we were forced to cope
with difficulties that most people never encounter.' Making a living was the biggest hurdle.
Each day, from the time he was 14, he headed to the sea at 3 A.M., to fish or
mend nets. At 7:15, he says, he would board the transportation to
school. The local garbage dump was
another source of income. Itzik Haddad, whose
family moved in when he was 5 years old, and has lived on Hasharon
Street ever since, recalls how children used to spend hours scavenging at the
dump for lead or copper, which they would then sell to merchants who came by.
No one asked whether that was permissible. The parents did not object. 'We were street children,' recalls Rony Hizkiyahu. ?No one had the time or ability to invest what we, later,
invested in our own children. They wanted us to grow up, to go to school and
to the synagogue. As far as the parents were concerned, that was enough.' 'The children who
were in the street were not good pupils,' Hizkiyahu
says, 'and there were no great expectations. The parents were too busy. As
the teacher?s children, we had to excel, so as not
to shame the family name, but it wasn't that difficult, because the studies
were, anyway, at a very low level. When we reached high school in Hadera, we had to close huge gaps.' Since the homes had
little to offer, the relations between the neighborhood children were strong
and cohesive, and the open houses and family connections strengthened them:
'There was no money, but there was friendship,' Haddad recalls nostalgically.
'We were all one family.' 'No one
locked anything. Everybody knew everybody else,' recalls neighbor Haim
Guetta, who recently returned after years of living in Netanya, where he felt
lonely. 'I owned one book, ?Around the World in 80
Days,? but I used to go to Haddad?s
father, who had a big library. If I was hungry, I could always go to one of
the neighbors, who would set a table as if I were one of her
own children. There wasn't much, but there was a zest for life.' Moshe Kahlon
does not tend to wax nostalgic. 'From an early age, every child sensed his
parents' pain,' he says. 'It was impossible not to do so. They were new
immigrants, they lacked the language, they were not familiar with the
establishment and they heavily depended on us. It was our luck that in the
1960s the state invested in the young generation. They build centers and
clubs for extra-curricular activities, and did all they could, so that we
wouldn’t roam the streets.' Post-IDF
Volunteers’ Next Mission: Help Indian Street Children The Algemeiner, 21 December 2014 www.algemeiner.com/2014/12/21/post-idf-volunteers-next-mission-capture-indian-hearts-video/ [accessed 21
December 2014] Some 30 young
Israelis, backpackers who recently completed their mandatory army service, have
returned from a trek to India on the premier mission of the “Helpers Without
Borders,” NGO, Israel’s NRG News reported Sunday. The group aims to bring altruism to the
time worn Israeli tradition of post-army travel. The group, who
mainly volunteered in Mumbai slums and taught children crafts and life
skills, served as goodwill ambassadors from Israel to the world. ”Everyone of us has a different talent,” Adi Cohemogen told the Indian
newspaper. “A lot of the girls are
good at teaching crafts and first aid, and the boys in combat, so they have
been teaching Krav Maga,”
a Blue and White martial arts system, according to Cohemogen,
who taught dance. The rough and
tumble self-defense training was meant to teach self-protection techniques
for girls living in shelters, due to recently publicized reports of high
rates of rape in India.' All
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