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in U.S. Dept
of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - UNICEF estimated that 11.8 percent of children ages 5 to 14 years
were working in 2000. Children work in agriculture (particularly in the
eastern region), and as domestic workers and herders. Children are also
found working on the streets as traders, hawkers, bus and taxi conductors,
load bearers, and car washers. Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - There were growing numbers of
street children in JEREMIAH NHLABATSI
(12) LAVUMISA - Just before my father passed way, my mother left us and
I had to stay with my grandmother. After a few months, I was approached by a
certain woman who promised me a job. I stayed with her for a year at Siphocosini and she made me cook for her and look after
her cattle. She never paid me and I decided to run away. I am now staying
around Mgababa in Mbabane with my friends. I have
never been to school in my life. GCINA NKHOMONDE
(13) PHILA NKHOMONDE (12)
MPAKA - We came to stay with our mother at Nkwalini
but since she was going out with this man (step father) who would always come
back home drunk, beat us up and tell us to go back to where we came from, we
decided to run away. We ran away
because even our mother did not care about what was happening to us. Please
help - Municipal Council of Mbabane Public Relations officer of the
Municipal Council of Mbabane Bongani Dlamini said they were greatly concerned about the street
children around town. He said the last
time they were assisted by the Swaziland Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation
of Offenders (SACRO). He said council might not
know the real reason why the children decided to live their families, but
they should be reunited with their families. THE Swaziland Crime Prevention and
Rehabilitation of offenders (SACRO) says the public
should stop spoiling street children by offering them money or gifts. Nonhlanhla Hadzebe, a timid
seven-year-old says: "The last time I saw my mother and father was when
I was very little. I do not know where they are, but I know that they are
still alive. At times I sleep without having eaten anything but I cannot
complain -- to whom, anyway? I only pray to God that one day my parents will
come back so that we can all be a family again." The study finds that street
children are often abused. Police spokesman, Sabelo Dlamini, said that old
men sodomize boys often as young as aged nine to thirteen. Many are infected
with sexually transmitted diseases. He says the street children are enticed
with E10.00 for a sex session. Before the molestation, they are offered glue
in order to keep them in "high" spirits during the act. Consortium
for Street Children Many Swazis live in chronic
poverty and food shortages are widespread. AIDS is taking a heavy toll with
more than 40% of the population believed infected with HIV. The virus has
killed many workers and farmers and has created thousands of orphans. Life
expectancy has plummeted. Traditional
leaders rescue Swaziland's Aids orphans A new program uses SWAZILAND:
Grassroots approach to orphan care "Street children are flocking
to Manzini like no other place, and migrant workers hopeful of work are
enlarging the informal settlement slums ringing the town," said AIDS
activist Pholile Dlamini. Out of a
national population of 970,000, Swaziland's
lost generation leaves the young in misery That is just the dead and the
dying. There is also the world they leave behind. One in 10 children here is
an orphan because of AIDS. They are street children, prostitutes and
dropouts. It has forced grandparents, sisters and aunts to care for children
they don't want. It has bred destitution, hunger and desperation. Swaziland Association For Crime -Prevention And The Rehabilitation Of Offenders ACHIEVEMENTS - We have reconciled upward of 80
street children with their families; We have returned most of the former
street children to the formal education system; We have solicited, and found sponsorship
for almost all of them. Common Country Assessment -
Swaziland, 1997 4.2 CHILD
RIGHTS AND PROTECTION
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