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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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as this one. Draw comparisons between
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Children of
Bulgaria - Police Violence and Arbitrary Confinement Human Rights Watch, September
1996, ISBN 1-56432-200-9 www.hrw.org/legacy/summaries/s.bulgaria969.html [accessed 16 January
2017] Children in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/bulgaria.htm [accessed 24 January
2011] CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - Several Bulgarian
localities established programs integrating children of Roma ethnicity into
schools. In order to increase Roma attendance, the government and NGOs
provide subsidies for schooling expenses such as school lunches, books, and
tuition fees. With support from USAID,
the Government of Bulgaria conducts additional ethnic integration
efforts. The government has also
provided funding for additional teaching assistants, usually from minority
ethnic groups, to be placed in classrooms with Roma and Turkish
students. The World Bank is funding a
child welfare reform project in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61641.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] CHILDREN
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Widespread poverty led many Romani children to turn to begging, prostitution,
and petty crime on the streets. In December 2004
the SACP reported that 625 children were known to be either living or working
on the streets and were primarily involved in begging, prostitution, or car
window washing; approximately 400 of these children were believed to be
exploited for labor by adults, although experts believed that actual figures
were higher. There were reports that approximately 225 children lived and
worked on the streets without the involvement of a trafficker, pimp, or other
third party. Many of these children had been abandoned by their parents or
sent by their families to urban areas to seek work. The NSI reported a 68
percent increase from 2003 to 2004 in the number of children registered by
police for vagrancy and begging: 1,785 children in 2004, compared to 1,059 in
2003. As part of the national strategy for street children, SACP continued
implementing the programs it initiated in 2003 to address the situation of
street children. One of these programs included putting street children in
protective custody. In the first nine months of the year, the MOI placed 274
children involved in begging and vagrancy in five special shelters for street
children; in 2004 496 such children were sent to these shelters. The shelters
were intended to serve more as immediate protective resources than facilities
for long‑term or intermediate care. They provided food, bathing
facilities, and basic medical care, but children were usually not kept for
more than 24 hours unless remanded to protective custody by the special order
of a prosecutor Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 7 and 8 January 1997 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/bulgaria1997.html [accessed 24 January
2011] [11] With regard to
the implementation of article 4 of the Convention, the Committee notes with
concern the inadequacy of measures taken and the insufficient capacity of
existing bodies, including the Youth and Children Committee, to ensure the
implementation of children's economic, social and cultural rights to the
maximum extent of available resources. The Committee is particularly
concerned at the insufficient policies, measures and programs for the
protection of the rights of the most vulnerable children, especially children
living in poverty, children born out of wedlock, abandoned children, disabled
children, children who are victims of abuse, children belonging to minority
groups, especially Roma, and children who, in order to survive, are living
and/or working in the streets. Street Children Human Rights Watch
Report At one time this article
had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21
September 2011] In Bourgas new komplex to help children Special
Correspondent, The Sofia Echo, Apr 24 2006 sofiaecho.com/2006/04/24/640700_new-bourgas-complex-to-help-children [accessed 10 April
2011] Bourgas mayor Yoan Kostadinov officiated at
the April 12 opening of a new day care centre for street children. The main goal of
the centre will be to assist children who live and work on the streets and to
prevent them from dropping out of school. It will offer emergency help to
street children, including clothes, food and shelter. Where
Leaders Learn Amanda Millet-Sorsa interviews Dimitry-Ivan Evstatiev Panitza, Chairman of
the Free and Democratic Bulgaria Foundation, The Sofia Echo, Jul 10 2003 sofiaecho.com/2003/07/10/634418_where-leaders-learn [accessed 10 April
2011] WHAT
WAS THE PURPOSE FOR CREATING THE STREET CHILDREN PROGRAM? - The children and
youth are free to come and leave whenever they want since it's not an
orphanage or an institution. However, once there they get assistance, food,
shelter where they can spend the night, and they have educators who teach
them how to read, write, and to draw. Since a normal Bulgarian school is
situated nearby, the educators help them go to school so that some capable
children are sent there and others are sent to boarding schools in the
country. Basically out of 100 percent a third are happy kids being educated,
a third go back to their families, and unfortunately a third go back to the
streets. Once on the streets they are
open to all the violence and horrible things that happen such as skinheads,
child prostitution, and drugs. These incidents do not only occur in Faith,
Hope and www.acybg.org/programms-en.htm [accessed 10 April
2011] acybg.org/en/index.html [accessed 24
November 2016] SOCIAL
REHABILITATION.
Street life impedes the formation of a positive self-conception, leads to
interpersonal relationship problems, to the formation of false perceptions
about the structure and functions of society. The Center provides qualified
psychological and social assistance for overcoming the above consequences.
The daily routine is aimed at forming basic notions of social life, of
understanding and learning moral norms, rules and values, interpersonal
communication skills corresponding to the children's age, motivation for
maintenance of a pro-social behavior. NICOPOST regularly
organizes national round table discussions on the Problems of Street Children
in Save the Children
Moves in to Help Children in Bulgaria - A Country in Crisis Save the Children
Fund, A Briefing For Journalists, 24 February 1997 pangaea.org/street_children/europe/bulgaria.htm [accessed 10 April
2011] Parents who cannot afford
to buy enough food and fuel to feed and warm their children are faced with
one terrible way out: many have already put their offspring into the hundreds
of state orphanages, countless others will do so in
the months ahead. These institutions, some well run, some dilapidated and
dirty, are themselves facing a crisis as the government's ability to maintain
them declines. All
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