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Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children In the
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Saving 'Street Kids' in Mozambique 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 - The Big Picture U.S.
Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs 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. Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 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 [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 Maputo's children We were in the rubble-strewn back yard of a derelict shell of a building in downtown Maputo. Home, if you can call it that, to a gang of street children aged between 15 and 21. We were here to try to talk to them for a short film on the work of architects for Aid, to be shown next month at BD's Architect of the Year Awards. But as their hostility made clear, they weren't keen to talk to us. Another British journalist had been here a few months before and had paid them for interviews. Information was now a currency to be traded, a commodity like the junk the children scavenge to sell on the street. There would be no filming without an exchange of cash. Information about Street Children - www.streetchildren.org.uk/reports/Mozambique%20Child.doc At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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. Mozambique Journal:
February 9th. 2002 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 Mozambique 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) Accao Voluntario em Mocambique
(AVM) is dedicated to helping the neglected and abused street children of Meninos de Mocambique streetchildafrica.org.uk/mozambique.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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 Mozambique www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/docs/Moza.pdf At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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. Mozambique Floods
Unleash Children's Fears 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] www.sahims.net/temp_batchfiles/16_07_03_wednesday/day_african_child/Day%20of%20the%20African%20Child%20PR.doc At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Most babies in 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 www.usemb.se/children/csec/feature5.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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