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FEATURED ARTICLE *** ‘The Way Home’
works to protect the rights and lives of street children in Guy Degen, United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF, www.unicef.org/infobycountry/ukraine_41818.html [accessed 5 August
2011] For thousands of
street children in Ukraine, daily life is a fight for survival. Their rights
are often violated and normal childhood has often been replaced by drug
addiction and violence. Miroslav, 17, for example, lives in squalor,
with clothes and garbage strewn everywhere in the corner of an unused garage.
He shares his makeshift home with two other youths – Vova
and Taras. These are just a few of the estimated
4,000 homeless children on the streets of A STEP FORWARD - Inhaling glue or
injecting a cocktail of cold and flu medicines are common ways of taking
drugs among homeless young people. Sharing needles and engaging in unsafe sex
make them one of the groups most at risk of contracting HIV in ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61682.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] CHILDREN
- The
government was publicly committed to the defense of children's rights, but
budgetary considerations severely limited its ability to ensure these rights.
Few government bodies or NGOs aggressively promoted children's rights, except
for a small number of faith‑based organizations that primarily worked
with orphans and street children. Education is free,
universal, and compulsory until the age of 15; however, the public education
system continued to suffer from chronic inadequate funding. Teachers were
usually paid their salaries during the year, but other monetary benefits due
them were not paid in some localities. Increasing numbers of children from
poor families dropped out of school, and illiteracy, previously very rare,
remained a problem. According to the State Statistics Committee, 5.731
million children attended primary and secondary school during the 2004-05
school year. The All‑Ukraine Committee for the Protection of Children
reported that lack of schooling remained a significant problem among the
rural population. The problem of growing violence and crime in and outside of
schools persisted, particularly in the notoriously violent vocational
schools, and discouraged some children from attending school. The number of
homeless children, usually children who fled poorly maintained orphanages or
poor domestic conditions, remained high. Estimates of the number of homeless
children varied widely. The vice premier for humanitarian and social affairs
told the press on April 21 that there were approximately 150 thousand
homeless children in the country, but the State Service for Minors reported
on July 11 that there were only 30 thousand. In June the respected
independent national newspaper Ukraina Moloda quoted experts as putting the number at 129
thousand Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 17 November 1995 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/crc-ukraine95.htm [accessed 5 January
2011] [14] The Committee
regrets that appropriate measures have not yet been taken to effectively
prevent and combat ill treatment of children in schools or in institutions
where children may be placed. The Committee is also preoccupied by the
existence on a large scale of child abuse and violence within the family and
the insufficient protection afforded by the existing legislation and services
in that regard. The problem of sexual exploitation of children also requires
special attention. Caring for the
children who 'don't exist' Organization
protects Ukrainian youth from falling prey to human traffickers Don Butler, The
Ottawa Citizen, January 30, 2009 www.meetup.com/Fight-Slavery-Now/messages/boards/thread/8824673 [accessed 4
September 2012] Since the collapse
of the About 80 per cent
are "social orphans" who live on the street because their parents
drink, use drugs or abuse them sexually or physically. Officially, many don't even exist. Their
parents never registered their births, so the state has no record of them. "That's why it's very easy for human
trafficking," said Mr. Svystun. "You can
take somebody who doesn't exist, so nobody cares." It all began with a
meal on a minibus Cassandra Jardine,
The Telegraph, 15 Jan 2009 [accessed 5 August
2011] These are the
street children of Kharkiv, in eastern Twelve-year-old Artom is one child among thousands in Kharkiv
to have chosen the freedom of the streets over the regimentation of the
orphanage. A lively, cheeky-looking boy, he says that he never knew his
father, his mother drinks and his stepfather is “not kind”, so he was put in
the orphanage three years ago. Soon after, he escaped to live underground ...
Charities: You
can't help everybody, but everybody can help somebody The Evening
Telegraph, 15 May 2007 www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/features/charities_you_can_t_help_everybody_but_everybody_can_help_somebody_1_77946 [accessed 5 August
2011] It is a Ukranian tradition that at a
certain time of the year, people leave food on the graves of their loved ones
as a memorial. Starving street children, desperate for any scrap of food they
can get their hands on, often raid the graveyard at night. New shelter, clinic
open to fill needs of Elisabeth Sewall,
Assistant Editor, ePOSHTA, Apr 25 2007 streetchildrennews.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/p770/ [accessed 11 January
2017] NEW Funded by the
United States Agency for International Development and the World Childhood
Foundation, the center is based on an innovative outreach model, offering a
multi-dimensional approach to healthcare for street children, combining
medical, psychological, pedagogical, social and legal services. Swiss extend help
to swissinfo (Swiss Broadcasting
Corporation), Apr 18, 2007 -- adapted from an article in German by Erik
Albrecht in www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Archive/Swiss_extend_help_to_Ukrainian_street_children.html?cid=5830514 [accessed 5 August
2011] The freshly painted
edifices stand in stark contrast to the desolate They are three of
around 120,000 children who, according to Unicef,
live on the streets in Local man helps Jim Haug, The www.deti.zp.ua/eng/show_article.php?a_id=5063 [accessed 5 August
2011] There are no foster
families in Sandra Gaffigan,
June 1, 2006 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 August
2011] THE UNDERGROUND - He happened
across a homeless boy of about three rummaging through garbage for food. The
sight made him think of his own children. He couldn’t conceive of them thrown
out to fend for themselves. He came to learn that an estimated 800,000
children live on their own (abandoned, orphaned or fleeing abuse). Japan grants aid
for the street children of Ukraine May 23, 2006 streetchildrens.blogspot.com/2009/02/street-children-in-japan.html ß VIRUS DETECTED [accessed 11 January
2017] The government of Children Suffering
in Father's Care [accessed 5 August
2011] Crouched down near
the manhole, Stas takes a defiant drag on his
cigarette. His fingernails are covered with dirt, his oversized green jacket
dirty and torn. He is 12 years old, and has been living on the streets of Prevention Of
Addictive Behavior Among Street Children In Postupniy, O. M., Chernetska, T. M., Dovgopol, M.
Y. (2002). Prevention of addictive behavior among street children in www.psychiatry.org.ua/eng/eng037.htm [accessed 5 August
2011] 60,4% of neglected children are drug users. Among homeless children, about 100% use
drugs. The most popular drugs are glue and other chemical substances. Most often (56,1%) children buy drugs,
friends give drugs to 55,3% of the children, 8,8% get drugs in other ways
(steal glue, cultivate cannabis and so on), parents offer drugs for 7,9%. Program Jewish Telegraphic
Agency JTA, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 August
2011] Vitalik and his friends
don't know anything about Jews, and in fact they do not care much. But twice a week they look for a white bus
decorated with Hebrew, Russian and English words where they can get some
food: a sandwich, some fruit and a can of juice, all packaged in a white
plastic bag. Rescuing Children
from the Streets CultureWaves culturewav.es/public_thought/56610 [accessed 5 August
2011] Without the help
available through outreach programs run by the organizations and individuals
of Father's House, MIR Foundation, Help For Arie Farnam,
The Christian Science Monitor, At one time this article
had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 August
2011] In the narrow space
around the pipes in a The Way Home The Way Home - At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 August
2011] WHAT IS HAPPENING? - How do the
children survive out in the street? They united into groups, worked out their
rules and habits. They earn their living in every possible way honestly and
not very honestly. They wash cars, carry heavy things, beg, steal, get
engaged in prostitution… Naturally, the children who stay out of doors do not
go to school. – SC, CP LifeNets Commits to Helping
Orphans and Street Children in Vinogradov Victor Kubik, LifeNets, July 26, 2001 www.lifenets.org/vinogradov/072601.htm [accessed 5 August
2011] Children have had
to fend for themselves. Many of them
are orphans or have lost one of their parents. It is sad, but many of the children know their
parents only as alcoholics and know only sickness, cold and hunger. The children's lives are often accompanied
with beatings, addition to drugs, criminality, prostitution and begging.
Constantly we see children searching through garbage cans to something
edible. Kyiv's Street
Children Find Guardian Angels Lily Hyde, Radio
Free Europe/Radio hpn.asu.edu/archives/Apr98/0376.html [accessed 5 August
2011] On a weekly sortie into
a rundown Kyiv suburb, a small group of teenagers lugs bags of bread and
bouillon cubes to a street corner, where some younger children stand
waiting. The contrast between the two
groups is stark. The first is clean, well dressed and smiling. The second is
dusty, rumpled and ill clad in oversized sweaters that don't keep out the
chilly Spring air. ADRA Todd Reese, ADRA
International, May 28, 2003 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 August
2011] "Street
children live in abhorrent conditions including basements, abandoned
buildings, city garbage sites, and sewage systems. ADRA is not only trying to
feed the children, but also seeks to create positive changes in their
lives," said Andriy Chuprikov,
country director for ADRA Ukraine. Kiev Street
Children Ministry William and Helen
Lovelace, Global Ministries, Aug 12, 2002 gbgm-umc.org/global_news/full_article.cfm?articleid=1015 [accessed 5 August
2011] There are thousands
of poor children on the street of All
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