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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Street Children On The Increase In Douala Joe Dinga Pefok, Up www.postnewsline.com/2006/06/street_children.html [accessed 22
April 2011] CRIME WAVE
- If
the authorities are getting worried about the increase in the number of
street children, it is because of the rising crime wave in the city,
involving many street children. These children mostly hang out in the busy
commercial streets of Akwa during the day and sleep
at the corridors of the commercial buildings in the night. Street children are
said to mostly start off as 'pick pockets'. With time, they gain more and
more experience, and eventually move into big robbery operations. Most of
those who grow to start participating in big banditry operations are said to
leave the street for hotels, or put up with women. The Impact Of Home Background On The
Decision Of Children To Run Away: the case of Yaounde
City street children in Cameroon Matchinda B., www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10219943?dopt=Abstract [accessed 22
April 2011] OBJECTIVE: This study sets
out to investigate the phenomenon of street children and its relationship to their
home background. The project stemmed from the fact that there is an enormous
increase of children nowadays roaming the streets. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF
– www.unicef.org/infobycountry/cameroon.html [accessed 22
April 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/cameroon.htm [accessed 26 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - According to a study conducted in 2000 by the ILO,
the Ministry of Labor, and NGOs, children in Cameroon work in the
agricultural sector; in informal activities, such as street vending and car
washing; as domestic servants; in prostitution; and in other illicit
activities. The ILO has found that 7
percent of working children in the cities of Human Rights Reports
» 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61558.htm [accessed 26 January 2011] CHILDREN
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Although exact numbers were unavailable, the country had a significant number
of displaced or street children, most of whom resided in urban areas such as Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
12 October 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/cameroon2001.html [accessed 26 January 2011] [62] The Committee
expresses its concern at the increasing number of street children and at the
lack of specific mechanisms to address this situation and to provide these
children with adequate assistance. [63] The Committee
recommends … Elvis Tah, The Post (Buea), 28 April
2008 This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 22
April 2011] Apart from mad
people that wander about the streets, many children are increasingly joining
them. They are found mostly inhabiting bus stops and video game houses. Some
of these street children sleep on the verandas of off-licences
and bars, and in abandoned or uncompleted houses. In Douala, the Catholic Cathedral seems to
be providing a safe haven for them where many have their beddings under a
tent, where they retire from their daily activities to doze. These street
children come from different backgrounds and for various reasons; those who
break up from their families because of disequilibrium and those who get to
the streets because they have a misunderstanding with their benefactors or
masters. Some of such children are of
Nigerian origin who are brought to The second category
of street children are those who are actually living with their parents or
guardians but are out of school, probably to hawk and supplement the family
income. The third category is of Arab
extract that move along with their mothers, in markets and strategic places
to beg for money. Street children: a collective
responsibility Pamela Bidjocka, Editor, www.crtv.cm/cont/nouvelles/nouvelles_sola_fr.php?idField=579&table=nouvelles&sub= [accessed 22
April 2011] The Ministry of
Social Affairs has launched a nation wide campaign to recuperate street
children in all major towns in Pickpockets Invade This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 22
April 2011] Taxi drivers are
the target of the new breed of bandits.
Its 10:30 am in Yaounde. The famous Avenue
Kennedy is as busy as usual. Teponno Martin, (49) a
taxi driver in Yaounde, finds it difficult to
collect pick up passengers. He can barely hear the destinations of passengers
because all the car windows are winded up. It is normal. There are pick
pockets around. He recounts that he has been a victim of robbery twice. In
the first incident, the sum of CFA 5000 was stolen from his vehicle.
According to him, the children surround the vehicle and use tactics to
distract the driver and before he knows it, they have made away with any
thing they can lay hands on. Street Children On The Increase In Joe Dinga Pefok, Up www.postnewsline.com/2006/06/street_children.html [accessed 22
April 2011] CRIME WAVE
- If
the authorities are getting worried about the increase in the number of
street children, it is because of the rising crime wave in the city,
involving many street children. These children mostly hang out in the busy
commercial streets of Akwa during the day and sleep
at the corridors of the commercial buildings in the night. Street children are
said to mostly start off as 'pick pockets'. With time, they gain more and
more experience, and eventually move into big robbery operations. Most of
those who grow to start participating in big banditry operations are said to
leave the street for hotels, or put up with women. PMUC Stays With Street Children Joe Dinga Pefok, Up www.postnewsline.com/2006/01/pmuc_stays_with.html [accessed 22
April 2011] The General Manager
of Pari Mutuel Urbain Camerounais, PMUC,
Jean-Dominique Casamarta, recently reassured the
management of Foyers Saint-Nicodème, a chain of homes
for children taken off the streets in Samuel Ngnitedem
- Association Emmanuel du Cameroon ASHOKA Fellows,
1995 www.ashoka.org/fellow/2312 [accessed 22
April 2011] THE PROBLEM - The Impact Of Home Background On The
Decision Of Children To Run Away: the case of Yaounde
City street children in Cameroon Matchinda B., www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10219943?dopt=Abstract [accessed 22
April 2011] OBJECTIVE: This study sets
out to investigate the phenomenon of street children and its relationship to
their home background. The project stemmed from the fact that there is an
enormous increase of children nowadays roaming the streets. Reports to Treaty Bodies - Committee on the
Rights of the Child Human Rights
Internet, For The Record 2001, Volume 2, At one time this article had been archived and
may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 22
April 2011] Other points of
concern included: the possible use of inter-country adoption for the purpose
of trafficking; the increasing number of street children and the lack of
specific mechanisms to address this situation and to provide these children
with adequate assistance How The Circus Came To Cameroon's Street
Children [access
information unavailable] Most of the young
people come from underprivileged environments where violence is an everyday
occurrence. They have found asylum on the streets, which have become home to
them. But it's a dangerous kind of asylum. Street Children In October 19, 2001 nalexstanley.tigblog.org/archive/10_2001 [accessed 22
April 2011] The streets of Street Children and (AIDS)-Orphans project International
Relief Friendship Foundation, ANAYA-Initiative for Street-Children and
Orphans in At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 22
April 2011] 4. PROJECT
DESCRIPTION, OBJECTIVES: THE
OBJECTIVES OF THE SAFE HOUSE ARE -
Provide a safety zone for displaced children from the hours of 9:00 pm
through 5:00 am. During these hours the building will be open and services
provided to the children in need. This time frame has been chosen due to the
fact that children on the streets are most at risk during this period. All
material used herein reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC § 107
for noncommercial, nonprofit, and educational use. PLEASE RESPECT COPYRIGHTS OF COMPONENT
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