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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Finding Jewels In The Gutter Ana Swierstra Bie, Share International, April 1999 www.shareintl.org/archives/homelessness/hl-asb-findingjewels.html [accessed 29 June 2011] ARNE SKARPSNO AND
HIS WIFE, GERD, HAVE SPENT ELEVEN YEARS MAKING MEALS AND DISTRIBUTING THEM TO
THOSE LIVING ON THE STREETS OF OSLO, NORWAY - AND HAVE
FOUND A SOURCE OF LOVE LIKE NO OTHER - Eleven years ago pensioner Arne Skarpsno discovered that while institutions were closed
for the summer many drug addicts, glue-sniffers, prostitutes, alcoholics and
other homeless people were actually starving on the streets of Oslo. The
impulse to do something was strong. Other people went off on holiday, but
Arne and his wife Gerd put their camping table and
lots of home-made sandwiches in the car and drove to a place in the city
where addicts usually hang out. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61667.htm [accessed 14 December 2010] CHILDREN
- The
government was strongly committed to children's rights and welfare; it amply
funded systems of education and medical care. The government
provides free education for children through the postsecondary level.
Education is compulsory for 10 years, or through the tenth grade; most
children stay in school at least until the age of 18. The UN Children's Fund
(UNICEF) reported a school attendance rate of 100 percent in 2004. Finding Jewels In The Gutter Ana Swierstra Bie, Share International, April 1999 www.shareintl.org/archives/homelessness/hl-asb-findingjewels.html [accessed 29 June 2011] ARNE
SKARPSNO AND HIS WIFE, GERD, HAVE SPENT ELEVEN YEARS MAKING MEALS AND
DISTRIBUTING THEM TO THOSE LIVING ON THE STREETS OF OSLO, NORWAY - AND HAVE FOUND A SOURCE OF LOVE LIKE NO OTHER - Eleven years ago
pensioner Arne Skarpsno discovered that while
institutions were closed for the summer many drug addicts, glue-sniffers,
prostitutes, alcoholics and other homeless people were actually starving on
the streets of Oslo. The impulse to do something was strong. Other people
went off on holiday, but Arne and his wife Gerd put
their camping table and lots of home-made sandwiches in the car and drove to
a place in the city where addicts usually hang out. Homelessness in Ana Swierstra Bie, Share International, April 1999 www.shareintl.org/archives/homelessness/hl-asbNorway.htm [accessed 29 June 2011] A
REPORT ON INCREASING HOMELESSNESS IN NORWAY, CAUSES AND ATTEMPTS TO STEM THE
TIDE AGAINST ENTRENCHED SOCIAL/POLITICAL INDIFFERENCE - About 61 per cent
of the homeless are drug or alcohol addicts while 21 per cent have a mental
illness which needs treatment. Like the trend in many other countries,
psychiatric services have seen their capacity to cope greatly reduced in the
last 10-15 years. Again, as in many countries, the voluntary sector and
charities are picking up the pieces that governmental welfare services cannot
deal with. Child
Poverty in Rich Countries, 2005 [PDF] United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/repcard6e.pdf [accessed 29 June 2011] [page 4] KEY FINDINGS - At the top of the
child poverty league are Over the latest
ten-year period for which comparable data are available, the proportion of
children living in poverty has risen in 17 out of 24 OECD countries (Figure
2). Higher government
spending on family and social benefits is clearly associated with lower child
poverty rates. All
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