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accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation
in HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on
this page and others to see which aspect(s) of street life are of particular
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
Children. Scan other countries as well
as this one. Draw comparisons between
activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
FEATURED ARTICLES *** Msgr. John Patrick
Carroll-Abbing, Boys' Towns of Anne Hanley, The
Independent ( www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mgr-john-patrick-carrollabbing-729222.html [accessed 2 June
2011] www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mgr-john-patrick-carroll-abbing-9252872.html [accessed 18
December 2016] Wartime mercy
missions for the Vatican brought Carroll-Abbing
face to face with the plight of the growing hordes of orphaned and homeless
children eking out a living by begging, menial work and petty crime. With his
army of volunteer helpers – many, according to another Boys' Town legend,
sons of aristocrats coaxed by the persuasive priest into The theories of
self-organisation and self-government hatched in
this small experiment were expanded in 1945 when Carroll-Abbing
persuaded many of his Shoeshine Boys to follow him to new, more comfortable
quarters near Exploited and
abandoned: A child's journey to Europe Katya Adler Europe
editor, BBC, 17 September 2015 www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34286458 [accessed 18
December 2016] Feeling uncertain
and unprotected, thousands of children have run away from Italian reception centres, disappearing on to streets. With no one
stepping in or taking responsibility for them, they're left to fend for
themselves. Doing what it takes to survive. Rome's Termini
station has become a hub for Middle Eastern boys with nowhere else to go.
Some as young as 11, these are vulnerable youngsters exposed to the worst of
humanity. ***
ARCHIVES *** Runaways
- Where To Turn For Help Before You Are Homeless Rebeccas Community -- This
is for anyone aged up to 13 years old who is thinking about running away www.homeless.org.au/runaways.htm [accessed 1 June
2011] Here are the best
phone numbers to call …They are Confidential - which means they won't tell
anyone about your call unless you want them to talk to somebody for you, or
you are in danger. They are open 24
hours - it doesn't matter what time you call.
In Afghan minors come
via Turkey and Greece to live on Italy's streets Deutsche Presse-Agentur (German Press Agency) DPA, www.topnews.in/afghan-minors-come-turkey-and-greece-live-italys-streets-2147708 [accessed 24
September 2011] Hundreds of Afghan
children who make up the majority of unaccompanied minors living on the streets
of Some of the children
have described how, unaccompanied by their parents, they left their homes in
the Afghan cities of Herat or Ghazni travelling
thousands of kilometres hidden on trucks and ferry
boats. According to Rome daily La Repubblica, some of the children and their relatives paid
up to 10,000 dollars for the trip. It was not clear where they obtained the
money to do so. Some 1,100
unaccompanied immigrant children are estimated to live in Rome's streets,
compared to and 262 in 2007 and just 32 in 2004, according to figures cited
by La Repubblica. For
the children
of Naples lifestyle.timesofmalta.com/article.php?id=4215 [Last access date
unavailable] These are children
who at first glance seem ok. They wear designer clothes, seem well fed and
give the impression of living a 'normal' life. However, they sprout out of
the most difficult backgrounds, experiencing an emotional deprivation, which
is far beyond what children should know. Their designer clothes are usually
stolen goods, they sell drugs to survive and at night go back home to broken
families. Sydney Film
Festival 2001 - Two Flawed Attempts To Dramatise
Child Poverty Mile Klindo, World Socialist Web Site WSWS, 20 August 2001 www.wsws.org/articles/2001/aug2001/sff4-a20.shtml [accessed 2 June
2011] [scroll down] CHILD POVERTY AND
POLICE IN ITALY
- Animals
Crossing the Road
by Isabella Sandri is set in suburban Rome and follows a few weeks in the
life of Martina Curto (Francesca Rallo), a 14-year-old girl drifting into a life of crime.
Susanna Curto (Cristina Donadio),
Martina’s mother, works nights as a prostitute and the brothel where she is
employed is running drugs. Ali, the brothel-keeper, is Susanna’s common-law
husband and, as we later learn, Martina’s real father. During the day
Martina, who refuses to attend school, and her boyfriend Sciu
(Salvatore Grasso) wander the streets picking pockets and stealing from shops. Sciu spends most of his
time away from home in an abandoned warehouse, which he shares with other
neglected or poor kids. Human
Rights Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61655.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– In December police arrested a Romanian and accused him of exploiting 9 Romani
children, ages 6 to 14, by picking them up in a camp every morning and
forcing them to beg on the streets. Victims of
trafficking were usually lured to Western Europe with promises of a job, or
sold by relatives, friends, or acquaintances. They were then forced into
prostitution, laboring in restaurants or sweatshops, or begging in the street. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 31 January 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/italy2003.html [accessed 14
February 2011] [43] The Committee
welcomes the adoption of Act 9/99, which extends the duration of compulsory
education from 8 to 10 years, and the various programs to improve teacher's
training, but remains concerned at the high rate of drop-out in upper
secondary education; the variations in educational outcomes for children
according to their cultural and socio-economic background, and to other
factors such as gender (more girls than boys do obtain a secondary education
diploma), disability and ethnic origin. All
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