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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
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** A Situational
Analysis of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Daniel Deuzoumbe
Passalet, ECPAT International, March 2003 childtrafficking.com/Docs/ecpat_2003_situational_analysis_studies_cse_children_chad_3.pdf [accessed 5 January
2014] [2.1.1]
THE MAIN CAUSES OF PROSTITUTION IN CHAD - Prostitution increased considerably
during the civil war, which lasted from 1979 to 1982. Unfavorable
socio-economic factors affected the lives of most Chadians. The situation was
worse depending on the size of a family, pushing fathers to neglect their
duties. Unable to cope with their failure to meet basic needs, many fathers
turned away from their parental responsibilities and left children to the
streets. Boys became street children, known in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the
Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/chad.htm [accessed 28 January
2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - A 2003 ECPAT study estimated that many Chadian
children live in the streets and often fall victim to violence, including
sexual exploitation. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61561.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] CHILDREN In 2002 UNICEF
estimated that there were approximately 10 thousand street children, and in
2003 the newspaper Le Temps reported that the number was increasing.
Children were on the streets because either one or both parents had died or
because parents did not take care of them. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] Approximately 1 out of every 5 children between the ages of 6 and 18
worked in the urban informal sector. Children throughout the country worked
in agriculture and herding. They were also employed in the commercial sector,
particularly in the capital, as street
vendors, manual laborers, and helpers in small shops. Young girls worked as
domestic servants, mainly in N'Djamena. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 4 June 1999 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/chad1999.html [accessed 28 January
2011] [22] With regard to
the situation of children deprived of a family environment, the Committee
expresses its concern at the insufficient number of alternative care centers
and the lack of support and supervision of the existing ones established by
non-governmental organizations. The Committee is also concerned about the
conditions of children living in informal types of placement (intra-family
"adoption"), whose situation is not periodically reviewed in
accordance with article 25 of the Convention. The Committee recommends that
the State party take all appropriate measures to establish alternative care
centers for children deprived of a family environment and to set up
monitoring for public and private care institutions Ending Child
Hunger: School Feeding in William Lambers, The American Chronicle, March 16, 2009 amchron.soundenterprises.net/articles/view/94549 [accessed 8 Aug 2013] Click [here]
to access the book containing this article.
Its URL is not displayed because of its length [accessed 26
November 2016] During the
2007-2008 school year, the WFP School Feeding
Program provided daily hot meals to 120,677 primary school children in more
than 650 schools in the Sahelian regions of Kanem, Guera, Batha, Biltine, Ouaddai, and Guera. These
regions are the most food insecure in Chad, with a chronic malnutrition rate
above 45 percent. In the east of
Chad, WFP is implementing an emergency school feeding program for some 30,000
internally displaced children who have been driven away from school as a
result of inter-ethnic conflicts. The Maternal Child
Health (MCH) component of the Country Program screens pupils for parasites in
all targeted schools. In collaboration with UNICEF the pupils benefit from
de-worming programs, HIV/AIDS prevention, and awareness education. DISCUSS WHAT EFFECT
THE MEALS HAVE ON THE CHILDREN IN TERMS OF SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, PERFORMANCE,
AND NUTRITION
- WFP meals provided at school help increase
enrollment and attendance rates and reduce the gender gap in schools.
Take-home rations provided to girls motivate parents to release their
daughters from household responsibilities and allow them to attend school. Hunger's global
hotspots: 21 Aug 2008 World Food Programme Report, [accessed 28 April
2011] Consortium
for Street Children Consortium for
Street Children, 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 April
2011] Almost five percent
of NGOs on the Streets
of African Cities [PDF] Bernard Leduc, The
Interdependent Monthly No. 105, March 2002 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 April
2011] [page 8] NGOs ON THE STREETS
OF AFRICAN CITIES
– APPERT was founded in 1994 in N’djamena with an entirely different idea,
and like a good student has taken to the streets. By meeting with children’s gang leaders on
their own ground, the APPERT activists gradually earned their trust. Using the former’s authority and knowledge
of street needs, they were able after a yearlong effort to establish a neighbourhood listening ground, which soon began drawing
in children. They came for the cooking
and hygiene service, to relax and most often simply to enjoy an environment
in which they are welcome and safe. Protection Project
- The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/chad.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT
CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - Children in A toolkit for life:
Fixing Francis' future Ngabohl Kodkandji,
United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF, 22 September 2004 www.unicef.org/spanish/infobycountry/chad_2482.html [accessed 28 April
2011] "My parents divorced
and, after that, my father was hardly ever at home. That all affected me
badly. But I also mixed with the wrong crowd, and that's how I ended up on
the streets." For a while, this
became a way of life for Francis. Once or twice - he doesn't remember how
many times exactly - he tried to go back to his father but he wasn't welcome
there any more. Grownups On The
Streets Missé Nanando,
ANB-BIA SUPPLEMENT, ISSUE/EDITION Nr 427 - 01/02/2002 ospiti.peacelink.it/anb-bia/nr427/e07.html [accessed 28 April
2011] First, there are the
former young fighters from southern Chad who have returned to civilian life
following the political agreements signed with the central government. These young people were left to fend for
themselves by their former leaders.
Then, there’s the young people who have left the countryside and come
into the towns seeking a better life.
Also, there are the young seasonal workers who come to N’Djamena after
the harvest, and there are the young political party activists belonging to
the opposition, who’ve fled from their villages after the 2001 presidential
election. All
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