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Supporting Protective and Integrative Services for Children in Street Situation
The Daily Centre for Children in Street Situation in Tirana, Albania, began its activities in February 2009 as a joint initiative of Save the Children and the Municipality of Tirana, in partnership with Albanian association Children of the World and of Al
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Regional Research on Prevalence of Street Children Phenomenon in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia
Street involved and at risk children represent the most vulnerable group of individuals in social need. This group of children, due to poverty and the fact that they often work long hours, remains excluded from all relevant social systems. The number of s
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Household Economic Strengthening in Support of Prevention of Family-Child Separation and Children's Reintegration in Family Care
This report is intended to act as an information resource, a collection of the latest research, programmes, findings and outcomes, within the realm of household economic strengthening (HES), family-child separation, and family care. Child protection and e
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Money Matters: Financial Inclusion for Street and Working Children
As a result of Save the Children’s advocacy work with Bangladesh Bank, the central Bank introduced a financial product in 2014 to enable working and street children to open basic savings accounts. This briefing paper provides evidence of the best practice
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Rio Stories
In Rio Stories you meet five young people living in the favela Maré in Rio de Janeiro. Children growing up in Maré face high levels of poverty, limited public services, social and economic exclusion and human rights abuses. Maré has suffered decades of dr
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Retrak Outreach Work
Retrak is a charity organization which reaches out to thousands of children living on the streets who suffer from hunger, poverty, abuse, and violence. Retrak provides these children with the food, medicine, clothing, hygiene and shelter which they desper
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Children Share Their Stories
This series of short films features the stories of children who work and live on the streets of Lebanon's cities. The stories are told by the children themselves, using animation skills they learned during a children's advocacy training project. Read the
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"Where Do You Want Us to Go?": Abuses against street children in Uganda
Uganda has one of the largest populations of young people in the world: over 56% of its population of 37 million people are under the age of 18, over 52% are under the age of 15. The number of children living on the streets but the total number of street
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Small children, big cities. Early Childhood Matters
This issue of Early Childhood Matters was published to coincide with a conference held by the Bernard van Leer Foundation in New Delhi in November 2014 on the issue of urbanization and child-friendly cities. The articles approach the issue from different
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Enumerating Street Children
There is a growing demand internationally that development interventions, including those to assist children on the streets, are based on reliable evidence. This includes counting the exact number of children who live on the streets. Without accurate data
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Juvenile detention in Uganda. Review of Ugandan Remand Homes and the National Rehabilitation Centre
This report contains an overview of the juvenile justice system in Uganda, raises some key child protection issues and gives a report of the conditions of detention for young people in terms of nutrition, facilities, discipline, education, healthcare and
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A place for work in children's lives?
A place for work in children's lives? is the question behind this paper, which highlights the various challenges faced by organizations like Plan when addressing issues of children’s work. The new Plan document written by Michael Bourdillon, a leading exp