children of the streets

The Department of Social Welfare has identified 345 hot spots across the country where street children and other destitutes are located. The hot spots were identified under a programme dubbed: “Operation Get Off the Streets For Better Life” initiated by the Ministry of Gender and Social Protection in ...

April 11, 2018 Mexico City—Yelling commands and lunging for the ball on the balding astro turf, Khalida Popal drilled the team of nine Mexican teenage girls through soccer training, weeks before they jet off to Russia for the World Cup – the street children's version. For Ms. Popal, former captain of the ...

Hyderabad: On the occasion of the International Day for Street Children, city-based NGO, Save the Children in association with Asritha is organising an awareness programme at Government High School, Naala Bazar, Secunderabad. Police officials, the local Corporator, and Child Welfare Committee ...

Longford asked to 'go bananas' in support of Temple Street Children's Hospital. Longford Leader Reporter. Reporter: Longford Leader Reporter. 10 Apr 2018. Email: newsroom@longfordleader.ie. 0. Longford asked to 'go bananas' in support of Temple Street Children's Hospital. As part of its support for the national drive to ...

The Street Child World Cup is a global movement that is held ahead of FIFA World Cup every four years. The team from India will slug it out with 24 other teams consisting of children with backgrounds similar to theirs. They will also be attending other sessions to voice concerns related to street children in ...

In Pakistan, where there is little chance of escape for people at the bottom rungs of life's ladder, Footpath School provides street children a chance to get an education not available to them elsewhere. It was begun in 2014 by Syeda Anfas Ali Shah Zaidi, the former owner of a construction company in Pakistan, who decided ...

One day, as she was going about her business, a wealthy businessman only known to her as Mt Kenya, approached her and paid her to serve tea to the street children around the area. This was behind the Family Bank branch, just near the river. The next day, he paid for the children to have their tea and ...

The Supreme Court has directed the Sindh education secretary to submit the government's proposals to move a makeshift school, run by a non-governmental organisation for street children on a footpath in Clifton, to a nearby government school building. While hearing suo motu proceedings on Saturday ...

Kakinada: East Godavari Collector Karthikeya Misra advised the officials of Child Care Organisations (CCOs) to provide necessary protection to street children and added that it is the duty of every one to take care of them. He issued certificates to 11 CCOs here on Thursday. He said that the organisations ...

EIGHTY street children were fed and received vitamins from police and a fraternity group on Wednesday afternoon, March 28, in Barangay Poblacion Oriental, Consolacion, Cebu. The activity was spearheaded by Chief Inspector Gerard Ace Pelare, the town police commander who dubbed it as Police and ...

NEW DELHI: More than 90 per cent of street children in Delhi are addicted to drugs, according to information from Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.According to the ministry, 46,410 cases of substance abuse by street children were reported in the national capital last year. Of these, most of them ...

... Mandalay Railway Station, highway bus stations, Phayargyi and U Bein Bridge. “We will take part in this programme to provide care for street kids. We will contribute support based on the requirements of the government,” said Daw Htet Htet Khant of World Vision's Street Children Protection Programme.

THE cast and crew of Cork's hit tv show The Young Offenders showed they had a softer side after rallying around a crew member seeking help for vulnerable orphans in India. During production of the show last year, an online post from the show's Second Assistant Director, Conor Slattery, set off a chain of ...

The Street Child World Cup assembles over two hundred street children from 24 countries. Besides the football tournament, a festival of arts and a congress about the rights of street children will be held in conjunction with the games. First held on March 2010 in Durban, South Africa, the quadrennial event ...

Britain's former Prime Minister John Major attends a Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey in central London on March 12. The conditions street children live in round the world is 'unforgiving' and 'unforgivable' said Major, who hopes the 2019 Street Child Cricket World Cup will shame people ...

A pioneering scheme enabling street children to deposit money into bank accounts is falling in popularity due to a lack of coordination among stakeholders and a funds shortfall among the charities enlisted to operate the accounts on behalf of the children. Bangladesh Bank unveiled the scheme in March ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Oyo State Command, has raised alarm over the use of under-aged street children in the sale of hard drugs in the state. Mrs Mutiat Okuwobi, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the command, raised the alarm in an interview with the News Agency of ...

The situation of street children in Zambia gives a critical insight into the phenomenon. This problem of street kids is one of the major challenges being faced in Lusaka Province. The street children and adolescents are exposed to immoralities such as child prostitution, burglary and early pregnancies ...

YEN.com.gh has sighted a video of self-acclaimed Queen of Ghana comedy, Afia Schwarzenegger, in which she is making a passionate appeal. In the video posted to her Instagram page, Afia is captured driving along some principal streets of Accra, and there happens to be some homeless families ...

"My team is currently in the process of creating an action plan to provide education for refugee/street children that will start out as a pilot program with Maram and her siblings and that will then launch in collaboration with serval NGOs. We will build up this project and try to provide this initiative for as many ...

Amsterdam – The estimated worldwide population of street children lies around 150 million. Egypt has around one million street children in Alexandria and Cairo. These children faced many problems that contributed to their astray. Negligence, child abuse, having siblings already living on the streets, ...

'Begging is also work': street children in Armenia. 23 February 2018 by Armine Avetisyan. (Armine Avetisyan /OC Media). In the streets of Yerevan, children begging for money is not an uncommon sight. While parents can face time in prison for child neglect, many join their children in the streets, finding an income any way ...

THE Iloilo City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) distributed educational assistance to 90 elementary and high school street children and 22 college scholars at CSWDO gym in Molo last February 21. The college scholars were given P5,000 each as their allowance for second semester of ...

Lilongwe — Chisomo Children's Club has revealed an ambitious plan of constructing a clinic for street children in Lilongwe worth K70 million. Executive Director for the Club Richard Mdyetseni disclosed this at a media briefing in Lilongwe Friday. Mdyetseni said they expect the clinic to be fully operational ...

FAISALABAD: The Child Protection and Welfare Bureau (CPWB) has launched search for parents of 13 street children found begging on city roads, markets and crossings in Faisalabad on Friday. Child Protection Officer Rubina Iqbal said that children identified as Allah Rakha, Shan, Qadeer, Kalim, Ijaz, ...

Surina Narula, CEO of Difficult Dialogues, said the definition of street children was "street connected and need not be homeless and orphans. Narula said that instead of it being clubbed with women and children, there was need for a separate ministry. She added that female street children had a different ...