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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violated and normal childhood has often been replaced by drug addiction and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 *** A Video Playlist for Ukraine Playlist developed by Brian Horne of
almudo.com & streetkidnews.blogsome.com www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=709521D2C27BD55F [accessed 2 October 2011] There are an increasing number of
street children videos now available that constitute a supplementary source
of information for researchers, especially for those who may not have
experienced the reality of street children. UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/ukraine.html [accessed 5 August 2011] Human Rights Reports » 2005 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61682.htm [accessed 5 January 2011] 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' Don Butler, The Ottawa Citizen, January 30, 2009 [accessed 5 January 2011] 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 ...
‘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 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 Charities: You can't help everybody, but everybody can
help somebody The Evening Telegraph, 15 May 2007 [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 This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 August 2011] 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 This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 August 2011] 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 material used herein
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