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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Saving 'Street Kids' in Mozambique Zacharias M. Uqueio,
New World Outlook [United gbgm-umc.org/nwo/00mj/street.stm [accessed 23 June 2011] After wars, many Africans return
from exile not to their native countryside but to unfamiliar cities. The
lands where they originally lived are not safe because of deadly landmines.
With no food production and recurrent famines, orphaned or cast-off children
become "street kids." Young boys and girls who have had no
education or moral teaching are now bringing up children of their own. All
too often, a 16-year-old father abandons a 14-year-old mother, leaving her
with a child to care for. She has no food, no place to live, and no one to
help her raise the child; so she decides to dump the baby in a garbage can.
Sometimes the young mother can manage to care for the child up to a certain
age. But when her life becomes unbearably hard, she abandons the child to
life as a "street kid." FINDING A SOLUTION - Two years ago, Bishop Felton E. May came to Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique. I drove him past an area where Maputo's street children live. When he returned last November, he asked me about these children. I told him that the ones he had seen were all still there, growing up, some having babies of their own. Meanwhile, smaller children were being added to the outcast group. The government was doing nothing–saying that the churches should provide the help. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/mozambique.html [accessed 23 June 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/mozambique.htm [accessed 22 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children work on family farms and in informal work including guarding
cars, collecting scrap metal, and selling goods in the streets. Large numbers of children in the informal
sector work in transport, where they are employed as conductors, collecting
fares in minibus taxis known as “chapas.” Other forms of informal work done by
children include collecting scrap metal, and selling of food or trinkets in
the street. Street children are
reported to suffer from police beatings and sexual abuse. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61583.htm [accessed 1 March 2011] CHILDREN - The country continued to have a problem
with street children. There were no reliable figures on the number of street
children nationwide. In 2004 the NGO Rede de Crianca, comprised of 33 community organizations that
work with youth in The Maputo City Office of Women
and Social Action continued its program of rescuing abandoned orphans and
assisting single mothers who head families of three or more persons. They
also offered special classes to children of broken homes in local schools.
NGO groups sponsored food, shelter, and education programs in all major
cities. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) - 2002 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1 February 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/mozambique2002.html [accessed 22 February 2011] [68] The Committee is concerned
that: (a) There are large numbers of
children living on the street in urban areas;
(b) Street children are vulnerable to, inter alia,
sexual abuse, violence, including from the police, exploitation, lack of
access to education, substance abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS
and malnutrition; (c) The primary
response to the situation of these children, as described by the State party
in its report, is placing them in institutions. FOCUS: A place for Building Design, October 6, 2006 business.highbeam.com/410341/article-1G1-152547459/focus-place-maputo-children [partially accessed 23 June 2011 - access restricted] We were in the rubble-strewn back
yard of a derelict shell of a building in downtown Information about Street Children - This report is taken from “A Civil Society Forum for East
and Southern Africa on Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Street Children”,
11- 13 February 2002, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 23 June 2011] 45.7% of the population is under
the age of 15; 30% of the population lives in urban areas; there has been
economic improvement in the last 5 years. Numbers of street children are
estimated between 3,500 and 4,500 with numbers growing due to the impact of
HIV/AIDS. Yates Family site, February 9th. 2002 www.yatesweb.com/Africa/Mozambique.htm [accessed 23 June 2011] As
we drove through town, we were told many of the apartment blocks had no
running water on the top floor, and we saw more than a few street children in
the stylish avenues and around the garbage dumps. Saving 'Street Kids' in Zacharias M. Uqueio,
New World Outlook [United gbgm-umc.org/nwo/00mj/street.stm [accessed 23 June 2011] After wars, many Africans return
from exile not to their native countryside but to unfamiliar cities. The
lands where they originally lived are not safe because of deadly landmines.
With no food production and recurrent famines, orphaned or cast-off children
become "street kids." Young boys and girls who have had no
education or moral teaching are now bringing up children of their own. All
too often, a 16-year-old father abandons a 14-year-old mother, leaving her
with a child to care for. She has no food, no place to live, and no one to
help her raise the child; so she decides to dump the baby in a garbage can.
Sometimes the young mother can manage to care for the child up to a certain
age. But when her life becomes unbearably hard, she abandons the child to
life as a "street kid." FINDING A SOLUTION - Two years ago, Bishop Felton E.
May came to Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique. I drove him past an area
where Maputo's street children live. When he returned last November, he asked
me about these children. I told him that the ones he had seen were all still
there, growing up, some having babies of their own. Meanwhile, smaller
children were being added to the outcast group. The government was doing
nothing–saying that the churches should provide the help. Accao Voluntario em Mocambique (AVM) Project Managers: Eric and Angela Boetius,
Family Care Foundation FCF www.familycare.org/network/avm-accao-voluntario-em-mocambique/ [accessed 23 June 2011] Accao Voluntario
em Mocambique (AVM) is
dedicated to helping the neglected and abused street children of Meninos de Mocambique Street Child At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 23 June 2011] Meninos de Mocambique
operates a clinic that helps malnourished street children, who are even more susceptible
to malaria, skin diseases and sexually transmitted diseases. Meninos also has
outreach workers who visit the streets of Maputo on a daily basis and
befriend the street children. Through the gradual development of a trusting
relationship, Meninos can help street children make
choices about leaving the streets. Save the Children in Save the Children At one time this article had been archived and may possibly
still be accessible [here] [accessed 23 June 2011] Over the past 22 years, we have improved
the lives of tens of thousands of children through providing basic services
such as healthcare and education, and through our child protection work,
focusing on orphans and other vulnerable children. We have provided food,
access to clean water and other basic assistance to children and their
families during times of emergency. We have helped thousands of children
register their birth so they are eligible for government benefits and other
support. And we continue to help children who are affected by HIV and AIDS. Mennonite Central Committee MCC, LIBERTAD www.charitywire.com/charity96/01439.html [accessed 23 June 2011] Most of the girls arrive at the
center from the street, having fled abusive family situations, or their
parents have died and a stepparent rejected them. Birth Registration - Right From The Start [DOC] United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 23 June 2011] Most babies in Massacre Of The Innocents Giovanni Ricciardi, 30Days
[international monthly magazine directed by Giulio Andreotti], March 2004 www.30giorni.it/articoli_id_3549_l3.htm?id=3549 [accessed 23 June 2011] Missionary beaten to death with a
hammer. After denouncing the ever more frequent cases of children and
adolescents disappearing from Nampula, in the north
of World Congress Against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation
of Children August 27-31, 1996 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 23 June 2011] FEATURE 4: Poverty increasingly drives
children onto the streets of All material used herein
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