There are around 100 million
community - street children in the world today
and it is estimated that by the year 2020,
that the number will increase to 800 million
|
STREETKIDS INDEX
|
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
|
This day there was work for Peter (RO) but generally it is hard to find and very low paying. "Anyway, people won't trust me, just cause I'm Roma. |
||
 |
||
|
Lisa and Cornelius learning Dutch - Romanian partnerships!! |
||
 |
||
|
Enter your favorite Streetkid's Web Site or Organisation for an Ecumenical Award |
||
Young people are dying on our streets daily. WHY? Young children and youth are being detained in our prisons and enslaved by mafias everyday in almost all countries around the world. WHY? Young people are living and working in horrendeous conditions. WHY? -- because we and our own communites -- choose it. Through our apathy and lack of concern, lack of action and our shortsightedness in not developing long term sustainable strategies for street children and young people, (along with others who are marginalised), we are giving them no other option. Street children and youth are condemned to live in the street jungle, many struggling against all odds to survive -- many of them don't.
The concerns of streetkids and youth at risk has been one of the primary concerns since the very establishment of our organisation. The Ecumenical Network for Youth Action has been involved in developing bridges and partnerships; with and between the street youth themselves, and the various sectors within our societies. All our programmes are youth centered and youth driven. We are currently networking with other organisations, in order increase the involvement of the Churches, Faith Communities and various sectors in society. Our aims include to strengthen their/our commitment (or begin!) to the young people by ensuring there are resources available (buildings for shelters, funds, computers, and training), and to work cohesively rather than in private isolated projects. Join us in this extremely important work.
While surfing through the next pages, we hope the stories and needs of the young people themselves will strongly encourage you to take action and will encourage you to take time to care about those who are most vulnerable in our society ---- by getting involved in a local project, or starting one if none exists, or by supporting those organisations that are child/youth centered who are developing partnerships with our “community” young people. Try to learn as much as you can as to the root causes as to why “your” kids are having to live and work on the streets. For those of you in Eastern and Central Europe we would also encourage you to see the double oppression placed on the young Roma/Sinti male adolescents and the triple oppression placed the young female adolescents. We need to tackle head on this discrimination and structural racism.
As long as our society continues this and other discriminations and “for profit mentality” in our educational and economic institutions, we are placing our children into the hands of pimps, human traffickers, drug pushers, mafioso, racists, ..... and pushing them towards criminality, suicide, overdoses and possible death. It is only through a committed community transformation process, that all of our young people will be enabled to build a better and safer world for themselves.
Take action to assist community children and youth on the streets.
 |
Get to know us, our names and our stories - listen to us with an open mind - not with solutions. |
|
Assist us by increasing the range of alternatives available to us and enable us to make our own decisions. |
|
Support and provide direct assistance street children/youth projects which help us. |
|
Create more training and educational programmes > and with us. |
|
Campaign against poverty, child abuse and domestic violence and advocate for more effective child/youth-centered policies everywhere. |
In the slight chance that there might be some of you
reading this who are street youth
please feel free to add to our
Streetkid pages with your
thoughts, feelings,
anger, stories,
poems,
drawings,
music, etc.
You can e-mail us at
ENYA STREETKIDS NETWORK
Take time to care and join us in making the world a safer and more just place for them to live in.This STREETKIDS Forum is open to current and formerstreet children / youth; and those interested in promoting awareness of the harsh realities of street children/adolescents and other young people at risk world-wide.
STREETKIDS: is a dynamic international and ecumenical discussion forum and resources centre, bringing together over 680 people from over 94 countries. The main aims of the STREETKIDS electronic listserve are to: inform ourselves of the situations and the specifics in each other's country, to discover better ways of developing partnerships with community children and youth at risk on the streets, to communicate specific problems, needs, and abuses of street children, to create a dialogue between organizations and interested people, and to serve as a forum and resources center and linking s around the world. This forum is for street youth and those interested in developing partnerhips, awareness training and promoting awareness of the realities of street children/adolescents and other youth at risk worldwide.
Primary focuses includes:
* increasing theknowledge of the realities in specific countries;
* the development of inter-active training courses with street youth and streetworkers;
* sharing of experiences and resources in the fields of street youth-led relationship programming, social, justice and peace issues, youth ministries; along with
* highlighting of burning issues and current international developments.
There will also be:
* Updates on the ENYA streetkids programmes, projects, internships and exchanges;
* current developments in inter-active training courses;
* announcements of partner organisations events;
* announcements of funding organisations, criteria and deadlines;
* information about new resources available for youth - social, justice and peace issues and ministries; and,
* commentaries on the burning issues and current youth peer ecumenical developments.
Your participation is welcomed.
Page updated on: