52974 I A JOINT PROGRAMME OF THE KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION AND THE SOROS FOUNDATIONS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE WORLD BANK B ulgaria Czech Repu b lic Estoni a H ungary Latvi a L i th ua n i a M ace d on ia P ol a ·n d R om a n i a Sl o va k i a Note to the reader The document you are reading is divided into two parts. The first briefly addresses the problem of street children/children in the streets in Cen t ral and Eastern Europe, and presents the programme run by the King Baudouin Foundation and the Soros foundations in 10 countries. This first part is published in English, French and Dutch. The second part, published in English only, contains a brief presentation of the activities of the local organisations supported within the framework of the programme, together with their contact details. The aim of this is to facilitate direct contacts between these local organisations, as one of the programme's key objectives is in fact to encourage mutual enrichment across borders. Any interested person or organisation is invited to contact the organisations mentioned in the second part of the document, who will give a warm welcome to any approach. language can sometimes present a problem in these contacts, and the country co-ordinators of the programme can playa part in facili tating matters. Their details also appear in the document. If. FOREWORD In 1997 the King Baudouin Foundation decided to launch an initiative relating to one oj the most 'isible and shocking aspects oj the phenomenon oj poverty and social disintegra tion in Central and Eastern Europe: street children. The Foundation's decision was based on a Jeasibility study carried out by Childhope UK, an organi ation specialised in working with street children. The study concluded that there was a real need Jor such an initiative. 1998 wa the year when the programme "Street children/Children in the Streets" was set up in 10 ~ountries oj Central and Eastern Europe, in the framework oj a partnership with the Soros Foundations as well as other Joundations and local organisations. In each country a Nation al Advisory Board Jor the programme was Jormed, a Country Co-ordinator hired, a nationa' strategic plan drawn up, and an appeal launched aiming to solicit the support oj differellt organisations. The year 1998 ended with the selection oj these local organisa tions witl a view to financial support. There are "street children" in all the countries concerned. They live on the streets and at night sleep on the pavement or in some abandoned building. Often they have a Jamily some where which is unable to welcome them and whom they meet only occasionally. They are constantl), on the move, and proud oj their Jreedom. Their situation is in flagrant contra diction w th the UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD, and is proJoundly disturbin! . What chance oj development do these children have? How will they reach adulthootJ , and what kind oj adults will they become? More numerous than street children are the children 'in the streets', Jor whom the streets are one 0/ their main Jocal points Jor social contact. These children belong to Jamilies who an: confronted head on with the negative effects oj the transition, families whose means have beel dramatically reduced, and Jor whom this major problem is compounded by other serious difficulties relating to work~ housing, health, dependence on alcohol and so on. When th t."y go to school these children are often treated in a negative way. They do not have the same opportunities as the others. We cannot just consider all these children as victims oj the economic and political transition through which their country is passing, and leave them to their tragic Jate. Some associations have decided to work with them to re-establish their rights and give them a Juture. Being so Jew, and posses'Sing insufficient funds, these associations need support and recognition in the pursuit oj the mission on which they have embarked so courageously. More than 500 oj them have submitted a project to the King Baudouin Foundation and its partners seeking direct financial support. The various juries charged with the selection process have finaliy decided upon 80 projects, which are sum marised i11 this brochure. A JOINT PROGRAMME OF THE KING 8AUDOUIN FOUNDATION AND THE SO ROS FOUNDATIONS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE WORLD BANK Apart from providing financial support to the organisations, the programme will facilitate a complete co-ordination process at the national level and the dissemination of information on the ~ituation of the street children/children in the streets as well as on the organisations working with them. It will also allow for the implementation of campaigns to increase awareness of the problems, the training ojthe staff of both the organisations and the public sector, and of volunteers. You will also find in this document, a presentation of these other elements. . The World Bank is also collaborating in this programme. In addition to carrying out a study in the 10 countries, aimed at highlighting the success factors of actions in favour of street children/children in the streets on the national and local levels, it wants to contribute to raising the awareness of all concerned, and the authorities in particular. Indeed it is the responsibility of the governments, as signatories to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to guarantee respect of these rights within theirbotders, and to develop policies to protect children from the negative effects of the transition. Is not the very aim of the transition to improve the living conditions of the population? King Baudouin Foundation May 1999 GENERAL OVERVIEW Of THE STR EET CH ILDREN/CHILOREN IN THE STREETS PHENOMENON IN CHlTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE INTRODUCTION ered is very similar although there are differ ences from country to country which are wor It is now ten years since the United Nations thy of comment. Two fundamental questions adopted the Convention on the Rights of the arise when analysing the problem of street Child - one of the most ratified conventions children. First, how best to prevent children in the history of human rights with only two from finding themselves on the street? and, countries in the world which hqve not yet secondly, how best to help and support them ratified it. Nevertheless, despite the philoso when they do fmd themselveS in such a situa phy underpinning the Convention on the . tion? By presenting a general overview of Rights of the Child which is premised upon a the experiences faced by street children in general commitment to improving the nature these regions, this report aims at helping to of life experiences afforded to our children, alleviate their living conditions. by enhancing their social civil and political rights, it is clearly the case that many chjldren Defining the phenomenon around the world still experience considerable It is difficult to categorise children simply as uffering, abuse, exploitation and are living in "street chiIdren"because often what brings conditions which seriously inhibit their healthy them to the attention of the authorities are growth and development. other aspects of their lives - crime, drug abuse, ill health etc.. Street children are but one Every country in the pan-European community group of children who may be said to be "at has ratified the CONVENTION ON THE RIGH OF TS risk~ or in "especially difficult circumstances". THE CHILD but the rapid social, economic and Nevertheless, the nature of their experience of political transition undergone by many coun living on or off the streets does differentiate tries - especially in Central and Eastern Europe them from other chHdren at risk and merits has had a significant impact on large sections specific attention being paid to their situation. of the population and particularly on families and children. The impact on families of increa Two broad defmitions can be applied. First, sing levels of unemployment, poverty and the there are those children who can accurately breakdown of social weLfa\"e and security sys be called "street children" because they actu tems put many children at risk. This report is ally live on the streets, and their lives gener concerned with one such group of children at ally revolve around their experiences on the risk - street children or children in the streets streets. Second, there are those children who and With. the joint programme of the King can be referred to as "children on the streets" Baudouin Foundation and the Soros Founda who may be on the streets during school tion, established in 10 countries' in Central hours or who spend much of their daily exis and Eastern Europe to address this pheno tence on the streets, but who return to their menon. homes and fa milies at night. A third expand ed definition offered in a country report from This report has to be acknowledged for what it Poland seeks to include all those children and is - an overview in which very general com young people who spend time on the streets ments will be made about a situation in which not because they have no home, but because many children find themselves in a number the emotional support offered at home, iIi the of countries throughout Central and Eastern schools or in the community is very limited Europe. The situation in all ten countries cov and does not meet their needs. 1 Bulgaria. Estonia. Hungary. latvia. lithuania. Macedonia. Poland. the Slovak Republic. the Czech Republic and Romania. What is d ar from reports from those coun Nevertheless, there is agreement that the phe tries included in this programme and from nomenon of street children in Europe in gen commenta ries on street children in other eral" has in recent years become an issue of countries\ is that many children who live on major significance in a number of countries and the streets fmd themselves in a desperate situ that the general social and economic situation ation whel they are exposed to considerable in which many countries in Central and Eas risk in general, are subject to sexual and phy tern Europe fmd themselves has created a sit sical abus( and where the lack of resources uation where many children fmd themselves and social welfare provision adds to the diffI living and surviving on the streets. culties they experience. Sidorenko-Stephenson, in referring to the sit uation in Russia for example, without putting The Sca le of the Phenomenon precise fIgures to it, argues that the phenome What is cl l~ar from the country reports and non has reached proportions not seen since from othel material 1 on street children/chil the inter-war years. dren in th streets is that there is a distinct lack of sy!'tematic information and evidence The dramatic rise in the numbers in most collected about the scale of the phenomenon. countries involved in the programme, reflects While a nll mber of countries can indicate the that the phenomenon has increased in scale scale of th phenomenon on the basis of sta in recent years. Further there is a likelikhood tistics available, even here they have to be that official tatistics understate the real num considere carefully with regard to their relia bers of children involved. It is a significant bility. For example. the projected fIgure for issue requiring urgent attention, associated Romania i., around 3,500 children; in Poland as it is with the marginaLisation and social 500; in th' Czech Republic 1,300; and in exclusion of our children and young people. Hungary 1,200 children. The lack of accurate The problem of children living on the streets fIgures ho wever, can no longer conceal what is not new. However, the fact that the scale T is a major issue fO many countries and which of the problem in many Central and European could deteriorate, as we will illustrate later. countries has increased also that the existing social welfare framework is, for a number of Criticism ( f the lack of accurate statistics is not reasons, unable to respond to the needs of to questio'1 the integrity of those collecting the such children adequately, endows it with statistics b Jt reflects rather that "street children/ immediate significance. . children ill the streets" do not fIt clearly into statistical l:ategories. For example, in Lithuania, the lack. of stati tical information is attributed EXPLAINING THE PHENOMENON to the lad of any clear defmition and appro OF STREET CHilDREN/CHilDREN priate stat tical methods. Statistics on "street IN THE STREETS children " u e then drawn by inferenct; from the numbers of children who do not attend The phenomenon of street children is not a school. Similarly in the Czech Republic though recent one. In most countries in Central and the phenomenon is acknowledged, no real Eastern Europe as they undergo rapid social analysis h s been undertaken. and economic transition, the situation of fam 2 See Svetlana Sidorenko-Stephenson "The Abandoned Children of Russia - from "privileged" class to "underclass", paper presented ilt the conference on Education and Civic Culture in Post Communist Societies, London, SSEES, November 1998. J See Sidore"~o-Stephe nso n, op..cit. · Street Chil ren, Report prepared by the Steering Committee on Social Policy, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 1994. · GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE STREET CHILDREN/CHILDREN IN THE STREETS PHENOM ENON IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE ilies and children in general has become par centrally planned economies with predomi ticularly difficult, and it is not therefore sur nantly state owned resources and industries, prising that there is also clear evidence of ris to largely privatised free market systems, has ing crime rates among children and young been accompanied by a number of negative people; alcohol and drug abuse; health prob conditions affecting .families and children. lems; poor educational attainment; malnutri There are a number of indicators which show tion and so on. The fact that reference has also just how negative the effects are for many been made to the worsening situation of chil children. These include, in rather general terms: dren in Central and Eastern Europe in a num ber of health ~nd welfare areas (for example, · extreme poverty increasing mortality rates)S does make it clear · unemployment that the phenomenon of street children/chil · divorce and separation dren in the streets does have to be seen in · increases in mortality rates the context of negative experiences for many · a decrease in life expectancy, especially children in the midst of major social and eco for men nomic decline. · homelessness · increase in crime amongst the young As commented on in a number of the countries · increase in suicide rates involved, the issue of street children in public · increasing victimisation of children consciousness has a rather negative image and in terms of sexual exploitation there is the general perception that the children and sexual abuse are themselves somehow to blame for the sit · displacement uation they fmd themselves in; or that their · separation from parents and families behaviour is seen to be more problematic for · increase in health related problems others. What this ignores ar~ the major factors which propel children into a life on the streets What also has to be appreciated is that not a life which very often puts them at serious only have children been experiencing the ex risk of abuse, ill health and occasionally loss treme effects of rapid social and economic of life. decline since the late 1980s to the early 1990s, . but, that this is in the context of a loss of so Social and Economic Causes cial welfare and health proviSions which were What is clear from a number of sources is previously available - primarily on a universal that for many children in Central and Eastern basis - under the fonner political regimes. Europe there is a gap between what the UN Convention promotes in terms of their rights When countries gained independence and mo and the actual situation in which they fmd ved from a socialist political system, in some themselves. The cost of rapid social and eco cases this also meant the loss of well respect nomic transition is very high for children. ed and appreciated health and social welfare The long term consequences for them as indi systems. In contrast, children and families in viduals and for the societies which depend on many countries in the region, in the face of their growth and development for the future extreme poverty and lack of resources, fmd have negative implications. For most of the themselves in need of basic social and welfare countries involved, the rapid transition from assistance now more than ever. The low levels S Generation in Jeopardy: Children in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Ed. Alexandre Zouev, Unicef, Sharpe London. 1999. of state support available to children and Family Factors families at a time of high unemployment; It is diffIcult to separate social and economic soaring fo d prices; increasing disintegration factors from family related factors in explain of the family; growth of youth-related prob ing the phenomenon of street children/children lem behav ours; deterioration of health levels; in the streets since the wider context of social means tha t children in the region are more decline and rapid social transition undoubtedly vulnerable than ever before.' affect the experience of families. Thus, in many country reports, the effects of poverty and Clearly, thl)se countries which are either in unemployment in terms of increasing family a situation of conflict or border such countries strain and conflict are seen to contribute will have I number of displaced or refugee directly to the break up of families, to the families - especially those countries in the divorce of parents, to alcohol and drug abuse, Balkan region where the current conflict may to the lack of adequate care for children, to well contribute to an increased refugee flow the abuse and neglect of children by their into countries where material and social re families, to the need to beg and live off what sources are already overstretched. In such a might be called the ".black economy". The ab situation, he impact of displacement in a sit sence of an adequate system of social beneflts uation of 'xceptionally diffIcult circumstances and social assistance merely serves to com coupled wlth low levels of available support pound this state of affairs and indeed makes it .inevitably put children at greater risk of having worse for the children and families involved . to develo}: alternative life styles. Families are characterised in country reports as either having no adult in employment or in It is. in thi general context, that many children having both parents out working and still not find them. elves forced on to the streets either earning enough to survive adequately. In such to assist il supporting their families or indeed circumstances, on the basis of evidence from to support and look after themselves. A greater children themselves, children may be forced understan ling of the social, economic and by parents to earn money or may simply be political f. ctors which propel children into left to fend for themselves and be vulnerable living on Ihe streets is an important element . to exploitation by other adults or indeed older in the sea ch for means of both preventing children. children from living on the streets and in . assisting t em when they are in that situation. Many country reports also refer to the fact that The adoption of a repressive' and negative schools - an important medium of socialisa perspective on such children, both ignores tion and caring for children - are so lacking the true nature of their circumstances and will in resources and qualifled staff, that children not in the long run assist either the children are again marginalised from a signiflcant or the so ieties in which they live. A recurrent mainstream form of child, family ·and indeed theme in all reports available on street children/ social support. What is also a recurrent fea children in the streets is a need for greater ture in the background of street children/chil knowledge of their circumstances and the sig dren in the streets, is that many of them have niflcant causes of their prob-Iems. also been in state care and have runaway from the institutions in which they were placed - many of them relaying stories of abuse and neglect in the very institutions given the res . 6 The negativ(! value of a repressive approach is discussed in the report of the Council of Europe, op. cit. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE STREET CHILDREN/CHILDREN IN THE STREETS PHENOMENON IN CENTRAL AND EASTE RN EUR OPE ponsibilityof looking after them. Thus, where dies that have been done do suggest that the families are unable for whatever reason to majority of street children are boys though look after their children the state institutions there is evidence of an increasing number of charged with adopting that role may not be girls being involved. 14 - 17 year olds consti able to fulfil it - again in the light of a lack tute the largest group of children on the streets, of resources and qualified staff. though there are also considerable numbers in younger age groups - in the Bulgarian study What has to be appreciated is that for many 9% of those interviewed were under 10. children, life on the streets, in comparison to To illustrate some of the points already made their experiences at home or in state care, above, three quarters of the children involved may be, despite whatever risks they expose had been in state care. themselves' to, a much more attractive propo sition. 50% of children interviewed in the . Moreover, in many reports on street children, study Enfants de la Gare - Bulgarian study the main cities and capitals are an attraction of children in Bucharest, said that they much for children who leave home or are forced to preferred the street to the daily family vio do so. Thus, many of the children in the streets lence they experienced at home. Indeed, street may be from rural areas (where poverty might children themselves do speak about what they be expected to be worse) or at least from other see to be the general positive aspects of living smaller cities. The attraction of the capital city on the streets - surely itself an indictment on being that it provides greater opportunities for the nature of the experiences previously . children to exploit the flow of human traffic afforded to them in their lives. 550/0 of them and available material goods. What is afforded said that they liked their lives on the streets, to them are better opportunities for food, and and 69 010 said they would never give up their places to hide and live in. What is also afforded, life on the streets because of what it had to is an escape from the abject poverty, abuse offer them in comparison with what they and family conflict that many children inter experienced at home. viewed refer to. In a number of countries - for example in NATURE OF THE PHENOMENON Macedonia, Romania, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria - a large proportion of the children Our knowledge of what it is like to be a street on the streets are gypsies or Roma people. child is still very limited and more work needs Refugee flows are also reflected in Hungary, to be done in this area. Nevertheless, a num where families from Bosnia have gone, and in ber of small scale studies have been undertak Poland where Romanian refugees have fled. en in a number of countries and these provide In other countries - Lithuania, Latvia and 'us with a useful though limited statement of Hungary, children on the streets may also the experiences of street children/children on come from the ethnic minority groups living the streets. there - for example children of Russian fami lies, or in the case of Hungary the large Who are the street children Chinese population. children on the streets? What we do know is that children can be on The general point to be made though is that the streets from any age, though, as the Coun there are many reasons as to why children cil of Europe report stated, children are rarely fmd themselves on the streets and that they in actually born on the streets in Europe. The stu . part reflect wider economic, social and politi scm cal issues both within and outside of their own prostitution is the most employed means of ear countries. Children of all ages live on the streets ning money illustrates its attraction for children for different reasons and in doing so, all put in what is clearly a high demand activity. themselve. at considerable risk. The same applies to young boys who are in What also has to be remembered is that though volved in providing homosexual services. the majority of children involved in the coun A common feature of their behaviour is that try report live on the streets many of them their services are offered around stations and also return home at night - the streets provid.:. . other busy public places. What we also know ing an opportunity for them either to assist, is that quite apart from the provision of sexu voluntaril. or because they are forced, in sup al services, children on the streets are also the porting their families through begging or work subject of sexual and physical abuse, some ing on the streets, or at the very least, a daily times from other children, and there is also escape fro m their experiences at home. information on children being abducted to be employed in the sex trade in other countries What do th ey do? and in pornographic fIlms and literature. Children on the streets are most commonly in It is undoubtedly a high risk business living volved in egging, theft and organised crime, on the streets. though many child ren also do earn money through st"iling goods on the streets. What is The Risks for Street Children more worrying, is the group of children who Children on the streets resort or are forced into prostitution and Living on the streets does put children at great homosexuality as a means of earning money risk not only from the treatment they receive either for themselves or for an adult, and from others but also from the effects on them thereby put themselves at considerable risk. selves of their life styles. The risk of sexual . Children away from home and in desperate· abuse, especially for girls is high. In one study need of money and food are very vulnerable done in Romania, 27% of the children who to the inducements of others to become in were interviewed reported that they had been volved in the provision of sexual services. raped. Overall the risk of sexual exploitation is generally very high. What this also means In terms (If prostitution, most countries report is that many of the young children who are on the im olvement of young girls into prosti intravenous drug users and who may share tution as · means of earning money and being needles, are further exposed to the dangers able to live on the streets. What is very worry associated with sexually transmitted diseases ing is that this is not simply restricted to young (STDs), including AIDS. women or older girls but may well involve very young children. Reports from Poland and Ro What reports from across Central and Eastern mania suggest that very young girls of as young Europe also convey is that children on the as ten or ven less have been involved in ren streets, from a very early age, are at risk of dering sexual services. A distinction also has becoming involved in alcohol and drug abuse to be drawn between those children who are with the cheaper substances such as glue and induced to make money for others and those solvents more frequently used. Their vulnera . who perform sexual services because "it is bility is then increased. nothing to be ashamed of, it is just a way of earning money." The fact that 86% of children A characteristic of life on the streets for chil interviewed in a Romanian study state that dren is that they do tend to congregate around GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE STREET CHILDREN/CHILDREN IN THE STREETS PH ENOME NON IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE railway stations, bus stations, squares, shop have become more scarce, there is a trend ping centres and other areas which provide which sees more and more children on the them with increased opportunities for selling streets - either because they have run away goods, begging, stealing and so on. from state institutional care, or because the state is no longer able to provide such care. Comment has already been made on the fact The concern for the future must be that in that the attractiveness of life on the streets countries such as Romania and Bulgaria may well reflect poor home and family cir-. where considerable numbers of children are cumstances. When children are asked about still in state care is that there is potential that their lives on the street what is remarkable is the number of children on the streets could that many of them in the studies conducted increase signifIcantly. The situation in Romania have shown a wish to adopt a more conven and Bulgaria is particularly serious because tional life style in the sense that they wish for the number of children in institutional care educational opportunities; better relationships are in the tens of thousands. with their families, and better employment opportunities. What they are reluctant to give Secondly, there is a concentration of street up, and there is a message here for any organi children along ethnic lines The high propor sation seeking to. support children on the streets, tions of street children in the South are pre is the freedom and responsibility for their own dominantly from the Roma community. lives that they have. What also has to be re Whereas to a greater extent in the countries cognised, is that life on the streets is very much in the north of the region such as Lithuania, a social experience and that the children may Latvia and Estonia, it tends to be those chil look after each other; work together and are dren who are Russian speakers who are mar generally more socially organised than their ginalised and who do appear in dispropor life styles would suggest. This is not to say that tionately high numbers on the streets. they are not at risk, but rather to illustrate Similarly! in those countries in the south of that any attempt to support or assist these the region, especially in the Balkans area, children has to take into consideration their there is the issue of high refugee flows as . experiences as seen by them. a consequence of the conflict there. Regional/ Cou ntry Differences Thirdly, it is clearly the case that streetchil In such a general discussion as this, comment dren/children on the streets have to be seen ing on differences within the region is some-. in reference to the state of the economic and what diffIcult and many of the issues relating political situation at any particular time. to street children are common to all countries Thus, in .those countries where the economic in Central and Eastern Europe, just as the and political situation is worse, then the scale issues relating to children at risk are common of the phenomenon of street children will tend to all countries throughout the region. to be more pronounced because of the impact in general on fam ilies and children of very Nevertheless, a number of more specifIc com negative life experiences. Should economies ments can be made. First, in those countries go into decline then the phenomenon of street which had a tradition of institutional care of children - in the absence of other fo rms of children, the phenomenon of street children help - will in all likelihood, be more significant. and children on the streets is more signifIcant. As institutions close and as resources and qualifIed staff for those which remain open FUTURE TRE ND S Fourth, that failure to develop programmes for street children/children in the streets, will Any projection as to what will be the likely mean that their basic physical, health, emo trends regarding street children/children in tional and educational needs will continue to limited because of the current the street 15 " be unmet. lack of systematic information and knowledge about this. Nevertheless, a number of broad Fifth, that the contlict in the Balkan region generalisations can be made on the basis of may well increase the numbers " displaced " of available material. children and families, refugee flows and the appearance of children on the streets. The fact First, if the economies and political situations that refugee flows are currently to countries of countrirs do not improve and indeed which themselves already have poor economies decline, thm chances are that there will be and political situations suggests that the prob more children and famiUes at risk and there lem may become worse rather than get better. will be greater likelihood that the number of childre on the streets will increase. Lastly, based on the experiences and views of children themselves, there is a need for mea- ' Second, in the absmce of material resources sures and facilities which provide them with and well qualifled personnel, the situation of resources to occupy them during the day and children on the streets will persist and the chil to meet their basic need for accommodation dren will continue to be at serious risk of harm: at night. Third, if state institutions in those countries Even on the limited knowledge available to us, which still house' large numbers of children failure to meet the ,needs of street children/ close, then there will be a greater tendency children on the streets will condemn increas for childrrn to end up living on the streets. ing numbers of children to live at risk and to jeopardise their futures. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE STREET CHILDREN/CHILDREN IN THE STREETS PHENOMENON IN CENTRAL AND EASTER N EUROPE SELECTED REFERENCES M. Ainscow and M. Haile-Giorgis The Education of Children with Special Needs: Barriers ands Opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe, Innocenti Occasional Papers No 67, Innocenti Child Development Centre, Florence, 1999. G. Cornia Ugly facts and fancy theories: Children and Youth during the Transition, Innocenti Occasional Papers No 47, Innocenti Child Development Centre, Florence, 1995. Judith Ennew and Brian Milne Methods of Research with Street and Working Children: on annotated bibliography. Swedish Save the Children. Jocke Nyberg Rodda Barnen's Work with Children on the streets (Booklet) Swedish Save the Children. Street Child~n, Report prepared by the Steering Committee on Social Policy, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 1994. Svetlana Sidorenko-Stephenson "The Abandoned Children of Russia - from ·privileged" closs to "underclass", paper presented at the conference on Education and Civic Culture in Post CommunistSocieties, london, SSEES, November 1998. Alexandre Zouev (ed) Generation in Jeopardy: Children in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Unicr f, Sharpe london, 1999. USEFUL WEB SITES Indicative of the fact that street children/children on the streets has only recently begun to be acknowledged as a major issu , the number of sites dedicated to the European experience is very limited. Relevant European based sites are noted as are sites which refer to street children in other parts of the world for comparative purposes. General reference site http://childhouse.uio.no Chi/dhouse http://www.rb.se Swedish Save the Children http://e... rochild.gla.ac.uk/ Centre for Europe's Children (Especially the Monee database) http://www.leedsdec.demon.co.uklstrchi.htm I References on Street Children http://www.rb.se/childwork/index.htm Annotated Bibliography on Street Children Street Children sites http://www.wordnet.co.uk/street.htm I Link Romania http ://www.knooppunt.be/~enscw/ European Network on Street children http://www.railwaychildren.org.uk/ Children who live in Railway Stations http://www.alfaskop.net/safir/gatubarn.htm Street Children in Russia (Swedish) http://st eetkids.org/ International street kids site http://www.hhcr.org/world.htm World Health Organisation site http://www.jbu.ed u/business/sk.htmI Street Kid Online( comprehensive site with Links to other sites; annotated bibliography; and video materials For Comparative Purposes See http://www.peacelink.it/koinonia_eng.html Africa http://www.hhcr.org/Asia.htm Asia http://foundation.novartis.com/brazilian_streeCchildren.htm Brazil http://myfriend.org/011298.htm Indio http://www.boys-brigade.org.uk/streetwise/resource.htm South Africa PRESENTATION OF THE PROGRAMME IN A FEW WORDS experience of carrying out a programme as partners. Under the name "Improving Inter The "Street children/Children in the streets" Ethnic Relations in Central and Eastern programme is being carried out in 10 countries M Europe this programme promotes dialogue , of Central and Eastern Europe: Bulgaria, the between different groups and provides fman Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, cial support to local projects. The collabora Lithuania. Macedonia, Poland, Romania and tion between the foundations has proved to Slovakia. Launched in 1998, the programme is be beneficial and of tangible help to everyone. planned to continue in its present form until On the basis of this positive experience, the the end of the year 2000. King Baudouin Foundation again turned to the Soros partners to launch a new initiative It aims to develop and co-ordinate projects in relating to street children. favour of street children/children in the streets in these different countries. The programme allows Working in partnership means sharing funding, for support of organisations working directly responsibilities and management decisions. with the children, but also for the setting up and Thus the aims to be pursued and the structure support of more structural initiatives, favouring and organisation of the programme as descri a co-ordinated effort among organis~tions wor bed in this brochure are the result of in-depth king with street children/children in the street, discussions between the partners. and increasing the awareness of the authorities and the general public to the problem. This approach requires close communication and the establishment of real collaboration at About half of the total programme budget all levels. It takes time and can only exist is funded by the King Baudouin Foundation through a willingness on both sides to invest and by lo~al foundations belonging to the a large amount of time and effort in a climate network of SOROS foundations, each covering of mutual confidence. In this way, the cohesion about half of the budget for the country and relevance of the whole programme can concerned. The total budget amounts to around best be ensured, and small contradictions, 2,000,000 EORO. misunderstandings or differences of opinion overcome. Like the Kin.g Baudouin Foundation, the foun dations of the Soros network are run by a pluralist Governing Board, representing the DIFFERENT ROLES BUT different strands of opinion withip the coun A COMMON OBJ ECTIVE try. The objectives pursued by these founda tions are fully compatible with those of the While the decisions on the direction of the IGng Baudouin Foundation, thus providing programme are made jointly, respective the necessary basis for a fruitful collaboration. responsibilities within the partnership are assigned in a pragmatic manner: the Soros foundations based in the countries of Central BETW EEN THE FOUNDATIONS, and Eastern Europe set up the programme in A WAY OF WORKING their respective countries and ensure their daily running, sometimes with the help of Since 1996, the King Baudouin Foundation another organisation; The King Baudouin and 16 foundations of the Soros network in Fo'!ndation is the driving force on the inter CentraJ and Eastern Europ~ have shared the national level and ensures overall cohesion. S~R Thus there is collaboration in favour of a OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME common objective: the success of the pro gramme in each of the countries concerned. The basic goal of the programme is to provide For the IGng Baudouin Foundation, this col help to street children/children in the streets laboration has the advantage that the local so that they can be completely reintegrated in partners contribute to decisions their knowl society with the same opportunities as other edge of loral situations, and take care of the children. This should be the result of an ' programml' management in their country. effective assumption of responsibility on the For the Soros foundations, participation in a part of all the players concerned. significant international programme enriches their experience and reinforces the national Such a goal requires concrete objectives and point of view. In addition, co-funding provides actions directed at the many facets of the everyone with a greater impact for their in problem. These objectives and actions are vestment i staffmg and money. described below. TARGET GROUP 1 "lIPI"llt :llld 1'~Jl.II1(1 till" Will" Idlill tI IJllt 1'11111 ,111'1"1 dlilclll'lI!lhlldllll III tlil There are many different ways of defming ~t'I'lh, ,>Il tli.lt 111111' lllI lfill'll 1';111 il\' the target group depending on the point of Iil'lpld :11111 ,11111111' Idlql'iyd :lIld twttll view chost'n. III-'II, The partn rs opted for the dual defmition "street ch i dren/ children in the streets" which has become the title of the programme. Principal actions carried out towards this This defini tion bas the advantage of being objective: financial support for organisations very con "ete. Tt also implies the importance on the ground; proposals for training of mem of considering the street, in the context of bers of the NODs; assistance to the NGDs in social work, as a living and socialising space seeking new sources offunding. for childr('n . · "St7l'et childrert" are children under 18 yea rs of age literally living on the street day and night. · "Children in the streets" refers to children of schl 01 age who do not attend school regula rly and thus hang around in the streets by day. Principal actions carried out towards this objective: survey on the needs of street chil These two categories are suggested as guide dren/children in the streets in the country, lines, as it is well understood that the realities and identification of the priority areas for of the lives of these children evolve in such work on defending the rights of these children a way that over a given period a child can (advocacy); provision of the fullest possible fmd itself successively in one or the other information concerning street chi1dren and category, or even in other situations. the players/organisations working with them, HE PRESENTATION OF T PROGRAMM E and establishment of a network between National Advisory Board these players/organisations. This committee, composed of experts and representatives of the different authorities concerned, advises on the direction and :1. [xpdlHI tlw r;lpdrllw,> al ILltlOIl;l l progress of the programme. It is briefed dlld 1()(';iI il'wl wililill iJ()th tflt' NGCh regularly by the co-ordinator. In most of alld till' ('0111 IlllJl1 II II'" \() IILII till' rHTlis the countries the members of this committee of ,tln'l rilildll'Il/l'ilritirl'1I III till' ,tIlTI, have been involved in the selection process (';111 Ill' IHtll'! Illl'l, of the organisations to approach for fmancial support. Principal actions carried out towards this Country Co-ordinator objective: organisation or facilitation of meet This person is the centre and focal point of ings allowing exchange of knowledge and the programme in their country, and has pre expertise between NGDs, dissemination of pared a strategic plan for the establishment of information on experience gained on the the programme there. They are responsible for ground (lessons learned), establishment of co-ordinating all the projects of the programme a "resource centre" (support centre for NGDs) within his country, for organising training specialised in the problem of street children. sessions, launching and motivating an NGO network, ensuring that the resource centre is set up and carrying out awareness and .1. H.lhl' IIIl :1\':,111'11','''\ "I qIIV"I'IIII"III', lobbying campaigns. .llIti III< 'I' 11"1.tI I",itlll ,i' II. Ill,' Ilqli" ,llId II lTI" til ,lll'.t dlildl\'Il!dllldITII Organisations receiving I II Illl' ',lllTh, ;I."i ,11\,1:11<::'1" lVl'IY"11l' financial support til 1,,'\1"1 .I"IIIIH tll,-il InpIIII'ihllltlt'\ These organisations have submitted a project III Ihl" ,In:1 in response to the appeal for projects laun ched in the country by the partner founda tion. They have seen their project selected by Principal actions towards this objective: the national jury. The number of projects establishment of awareness campaigns, lobby supported by country within the framework ing public institutions, involvement of the rep of the programme varies between 4 and 14. resentatives of the public and administrative A total of 80 organisations benefIt from auth orities concerned in the follow- up of the fmancial assistance. programme (within the National Advisory Board), For a brief description of the projects and the contact details of the organisations, please see STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAMME the attachment. AT COUNTRY LEVEL A Resource Centre A structure is put into place within each The overall role of this support centre for country to implement or reinforce the differ NGOs is to facilitate networking and advocacy ent actions planned. Apart from the partner , on the issue of street children/children in foundation within the country, it includes: the streets by providing a place to organize meetings and by providing information on: · the players working with street children/ But the co-ordinators' meetings go much fur children in the streets in the country ther than that: they also make it possible to (NGDs and public sector); debate and analyse in small working groups · laws, conventions concerning children certain aspects of the programme, such as the (national and international); development of strategic plans, the setting up · the rrlevant international bodies; of the resource centres, and the establishment of · when to seek funds in the work with . a network of NGOs working with street children. 'street children or children in the streets. Finally, during the course of these meetings visits are arranged to the current street children ACTIVIT I ES ON projects so as to give the participants a good THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL look at the situations of these children and the work done by the organisations in the 10 countries. Those responsible for the programme within the King Baudouin Foundation travel fre quently to the countries concerned, visiting COLLABORATION projects, bolding working meetings, and par WITH THE WORLD BANK ticipating ID tbe selection of projects for fmancial ~ upport as well as in press visits Two departments of the World Bank called together .... ith Belgian journalists. the "Urban Partnership" and the "World Bank Institute" have joined the partnership. Once a yea r the programme managers within the differ nt foundations meet to carry out The Urban Partnership carries out a study a collective evaluation of the progress of the aimed at identifying the success factors of programme and the functioning of the part local projects and wider actions in favour of nership. S ch meetings have been held in street children/children in the streets within , Prague, Czech Republic (1-2.3.98), Brussels, the 10 countries. The study concentrates pri Belgium (19.9.98) and in Bucharest, Romania marily on the Initiatives taken within the con (22-24.4.99, following the country co-ordina text of the programme, but is not be limited tors' meet ng). to this. It will be further developed in 3 to 5 countries in the framework of a second work In addition the King 'Baudouin Foundation ing phase, and the fmal report of the study, organises regular meetings of the country presenting success factors and experiences co-ordinators (about 3 per year). Such meet acquired, will be published in 2000. ings have already taken place in Budapest, Hungary (24-25.4.98), in Varna, Bulgaria The World Bank Institute will take charge (3-4.7.98), in Tallinn, Estonia (4-5.12.98), of the organisation of international meetings and in Bucharest, Romania (22-24.4.99). attended by the NGOs supported within the programme's framework, representatives of These meetings are aimed flrstly at putting the authorities of the 10 countries and other the 10 co-ordinators in contact with each actors. These meetings will allow to start a other for an exchange of views on the work debate with the authorities and will make it carried out, and thus facilitating a collective possible for the NGOs to discuss the conclu form of support. As they playa unique role sions of the study carried out by the Urban in their country, these co-ordinators can Partnership, to co-ordinate certain initiatives indeed often feel isolated. and to think about future prospects. BULGA RIA under the auspices of the President of the Re public. These initiatives led to the creation of an infonnal network of NGOs active in the field. Several organisations, in particular, run day and night centres, perform outreach work and carry out educational projects. Some of these activi ties are funded by grants from the European Commission in co-operation with ChildHope UK, as well as with th~ German and Swiss Red Cross. The Resource Centre operates in the offices of the Open Society Foundation (OSF) in Sofia. It is managed by the country co-ordinator, who is collecting all infonnation and compiling With the onomie collapse after the fall of the a bibliography on works relating to street chil Communi t regime and the difficulties Bulgaria dren to make available to the NGOs, interested faced in the transition process, street children partners and to the 18 OSF info centres spread have emerged as a new and unfamiliar phe around the country. The NGOs are reacting very nomenon .n the country. The problem of street positively: not only do they consult the mate children arose in Bulgaria at the beginning of rial available but they try to pass on to the the 1990s. The collapse of the economy and Centre any infonnation of interest. The survival industrial restructuring led to a significant re of the Centre after the ~rogramme fmishes duction of living standards together with a sharp appears secure. In fact the OSF is currently rise in unl.'mployment. This predicament was working on the creation of an 'NGO Resource compounded by the fact that marginaIised com Centre', of which the director is a member of munities (80% of them Roma) have tradition the National Advisory Board. When the Street ally been 1 0w-skiIledlabourers with limited Children/Children in the Streets programme education and access to the job market. Under ends, the Resource Centre should therefore be these con itions, several hundred children are integrated into this NGO Resource Centre. forced to beg or merely survive on the streets. All the NGOs have been identified (in fact most The social services system in Bulgaria lacks of them applied for funding), the selection has the relevant expertise and understanding of been made, and the contracts are on the point this grave problem (0 be able to address it in of being signed. There have already been mu a relevant way. Currently it is being restruc tual visits between NGOs working in favour of tured from an institutionally based system to street children in different towns, but the net a more flexible and responsive social security work will not really be able to develop until net that can cope with new problems. Social the projects selected are operational. The goal assistance has not yet be~n adapted to the new is to set up a 'National Task Force', bringing reality. There is no governmenhll programme together NGOs, the r~pective local and national to support work carried out in favour of street authorities, such as the Ministry of Social children, and no institutional framework exists Policy, the Ministry of Education, etc. and the in this area at either national or local level. National Advisory Board. This platform would Nevertheless, three round tables were organ meet at regular intervals in order to consult ised on this theme in 1993, 1996 and 1998, together and put into place common actions. INITIATIVES AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL From then on, it is the National Advisory respective ministries and of the NGOs on dis Board which handles the management of the advantaged children and specifically on the programme in the medium term, monitors its subject of street children/children in the streets conformity to the objectives set, helps the co and drop-outs. However, it is too early to ordinator to implement the projects selected, speculate on potential partnerships or precise and tries to exert pressure on government financial forecasts beyond the year 2000. policies concerning child protection. The Board also participates in establishing the training programme, and the co-ordinator keeps it informed of the progress and results of this programme. Two or three training sessions are planned in 1999, but their content has not yet been fma lised. In function of the needs of the NGOs (those funded by the programme as well as others), themes such as project management, street work, the needs of street children or fund-raising will be addressed. Bulgaria has already had the benefit of training sessions given by British instructors working for Child Hope. The co-ordinator also plans training sessions on the rights of the child in co-oper ation with Save the Children UK. The programme has also benefited from good media coverage. In particular, the co-ordinator has been invited on to national radio to par ticipate in a three-hour debate and to respond to questions from listeners. A brochure on the rights of the street child, entitled "What do you know about the street children?", has been published. Each associa tion has also planned some kind of activity to raise public awareness. Moreover, the selected NGOs intend to carry out a common informa tion campaign. The NGO Free and Democratic Bulgaria Foundation also publishes a monthly bulletin on the problems of street children which is sent to all the players in the field. A process aimed at involving the authorities has been started in the framework of another OSF programme: a series of workshops has been organised with representatives of the CZECH REPUBLIC the needs of regio!1al street work. In 1997, the Association of street-workers was founded. Within this framework the Ethum bulletin is published, informing the specialised public about street work and other related topics in the Czech Republic.It's going to be partly sup ported by this project. The fmancial resources of non-governmental organisations are not . sufficient, or there are no such organisations at all in particular regions. Eight organisations benefIt from some fmancial support fro m the Programme. Most of them are community centres (low-threshold), plus In the CZe"ch Republic, we usually talk about organisations working with young prostitutes "children m the street" rather than "street chil in Prague and the Association of Social Assis dren': There is no detailed analysis of the whole tants in Pilsen. area of street children in the Czech Republic, they are usually defmed with reference to The Resource Centre will be set up soon in Brno, other prohlem areas: drugs, prostitution, etc. on the premises of the NGO Ratolest (former The target group includes young prostitutes Lata). A budget of 3.000 dollars will enable a who are f und in railway stations, latchkey library to be created containing national and kids who ive in new housing areas in large international publications and books as well as housing settlements, Roma children, young a data bank covering all the NGOs and public people who live in abandoned buildings, institutions active in the fIeld of street children. cellars and squats (usually abusing drugs). The Centre will also take care of centralising information relating to the different programmes, On the st,lte level, work-sites of social preven activities and so on. tion departments were founded in 1993 within the framework of the programme of social pre All the NGOs have been identifIed and con vention. new position was set up in these tacted. Most of them have agreed to be part of departmellts: the social assistant-street worker. a network and promised their co-operation. There are about ~3 of them nowadays. These Thanks to the training sessions they will be able assistants focus on groups of young people at to meet regularly and exchange experiences. risk, and !'pend most of their time in their nat ural environment: the streets. They work direct The role of the National Advi~ory Board, which ly with drug-addicts and delinquents but also comprises four representatives of public insti with all the groups that are endangered by this. tutions, is essentially to pass on information on However, state institutions don't cover all the the problems of street children, to select and needs of lhese targeted groups. evaluate the NGOs supported, and to defme the needs in the training area, based partly on This explains why new projects have been started replies to a questionnaire sent to theassocia on non-governmental level (community centres, tions in the fIeld. Several subjects are raised in charity in titutions, K-centres). NGOs are try this way: fund-raising, project management, ing to solve the problems of the children in a communication, psycho-pedagogy, ... these more flexible way and they are more open to themes will be addressed during the course of INITIATIVES AT THE NATIONAL lEVEL three major (weekend) sessions and monthly (one- day) meetings. The co-ordinator will be directly responsible for this training programme. He is also charged with establishing a follow up procedure and stimulating the exchange (including inter-sectorial) of information; knowledge and skills. The press will be alerted to the inauguration of the Resource Centre. The annual report of the Open Society Fund will be published soon: it contains a description of the Street Childrenl Children in the Streets programme. An impor tant conference took place in March during which the NGOs and the public authorities had the opportunity of sharing their experience in different fIelds or types of street work. Finally, a debate is currently going on in the Czech Republic to fmalise a new Code of Social Assistance, which should have an impact on work with street .children. Moreover, contacts have been made with Unicef with a view to carrying out a study of this phenomenon. ESTONIA The Resource Centre, called the Tallinn Children Support Centre, started life in February. It is not restricted to the problem of street children, but targets more broadly all children facing pro blems at school, at home or elsewhere. In fact, it is the fruit of a partnership between the Street Children/Children in the Streets programme and the Open Society Institute Child Abuse Pro gramme. The Centre is open four hours a day during weekdays and anyone can apply there to obtain information. Unfortunately, the co ordinator deplores the lack of street children material in the Estonian language, as most of · the documents are in fact published in English. In Estonia we have 100-200 street children and 4000-5000 children in the streets (result The Centre also provides training sessions for of round table). In his strategic plan the co teachers, child welfare workers, etc. It possess ordinator eplores the fact that in Estonia, street es data bases on all the authorities active in children-oriented social work is practically non the fIeld of the child and social welfare in the existent. Moreover there are virtually no street public sector, and on all institutions and NGOs. social workers. It is true that Estonia has only Three books were published last year: one on been independent since 1991. The Pedagogical the data bank, another on co-operation, and University of Tallinn and the University of the third on working within a network. The Tartu hav begun to train social workers, but country co-ordinator of the Street Children their cum'nt number and training do not yet Programme is currently preparing a manual measure up to existing requirements. on street children in Estonian, which should be published in June. Yet street children certainly do exist in large cities like Tallinn, Tartu, Narva, as a result The Open Estonia Foundation (OEF) is respon of rapid changes in society (poverty, etc.) sible for the Centre. This foundation fully They are 1 ecoming increasingly young, and, supports the Child Abuse team and will con he reports, increasingly violent. tinue to do so in the year 2000. It benefIts itself from the support of the Estonian Union Several as ociations are trying to .react to this for Child Welfare, of Swedish Save the Chil phenomenon. A fIrst conference was organised dren and from some additional funds from in November 1997 by the Estonian Union for Tallinn City Government. Child Welfare, in order to draw the attention of Estonian society to this hitherto unrecog The co-ordinator is well placed to develop nised problem. The Estonian Union for Child co-operation and working within a network. Welfare, the Estonian Children Foundation and In fact, before taking over management of the the Estonian Red Cross are also active in the OEF, he worked with the Estonian Union for fIeld of help for children. All these organisations Child Welfare, where for three years he ran a have needs in training, information and co programme based on the same themes. This operation and require fmancial support. These experience allowed him to forge numerous re are the gaps which the Street Children/Children lations with regional and local authorities as in the Streets programme is trying to fIll. well as with different NGOs. INITIATIVES AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL The field of child and social welfare provides The planned budget will allow these training employment for only about 1200 people through sessions and exchanges of experiences to be out Estonia. There are about 200 NGOs in continued until July. Swedish Save the Children the social field or in that of child protection, will organise a week of training in Bucharest of which 20 to 30 work more directly for at the end of August. The co-ordinator also the benefit of street children. hopes to be able to organise a meeting or con ference for all the Baltic countries in October. The Centre has only been operational for a short time: it is continuing to collect information and As soon as the nine projects were selected and is trying to establish Internet links with differ the 9pen Estonia Foundation signed the con ent organisations. On 11 th March 1999 a round tracts, television, radio and the press were table session took place to which the OEF invited invited. Each project manager also wrote an 30 people who are the most important players article for the local press. It appears that the in the field of street children. This meeting pro local media were very interested in the differ ved most beneficial, and facilitated the devel ent projects and that they reported the infor opment of an action plan until the summer. mation widely. The round table in March also ended with a press conference and reports Aside from the selection of the projects sup lasting about ten minutes on the themes dis ported within the programme, the National cussed were broadcast on several TV channels. Advisory Board has the goal of identifying Some political figures will be invited to the shortcomings in matters of services, local ini round table planned for autumn. tiatives and training sessions, and of alerting the co-ordinator accordingly. During its four The strategy pursued in Estonia goes beyond meetings per year, it also focuses on future the phenomenon of street children. Accordingly fmancing possibilities liable to ensure the a new appeal for projects has just been launched longer term viability of these actions. to organisations concerned with children who face problems at school and at home, on the The co-ordinator organises training sessions theme "Child Worry is Everybody's Worry". for the nine projects selected. The training pro The OEF has received no less than 118 appli gramme has two levels: one is destined for the cations, of which we supported 12! project managers (9 to 14 people), the other is designed rather for the field workers (18 people). The training sessions take place every one or . two months and consist of visiting supported projects and institutions. These visits are fol lowed by discussions and lectures given by pro fessionals on themes such as child psychology, working within a network, communication, organisational development, etc. Here too, child psychology is addressed in different stages as well as conflict management. Two psychologists, one from the Tallinn Child Support Centre, · the other from the Tartu Child Support Centre, are collaborating in this programme. Y HUNGA R Faced with this situation, several" authorities are attempting to attack the problem with the means at P1eir disposal. The police for example, are confronted with the phenomenon of street children but are not trained accordingly. Public institutions (Youth Protection Institutes) have changed a lot since the new child care law was enacted in November 1997. Having suffered from the influence of centralising tendencies from the collectivist ideology, these institutions, which welcome several hundred children, are in a piteous state, and despite the goodwill of the staff, practise an old-fash ioned and impersonal style of education. Although it is difficult to assess its extent Since 1997, the number of homes has increased: (there has 't been any comprehensive research children of 8-12 live together with the educa on the stret"t children problem yet), the phenom tors, tutors. The network of foster parents is enon of street children is certainly present in growing, and the state homes have reduced Hungary a d takes on several different faces. the number of children. The Temporary Homes offer temporary accommodation to children Among th~e children, young girls over the under 18, providing food and lodging but no age of 10- 12, often sold by their parents, moral or psychological support. As for the wander around the Rakoczi square in Budapest Crisis Homes, they try to attack the problem or on motllrway parking areas. Boys of 15 or of street children in a less superficial manner. 16, mainly Hungarians of Romanian origin, More flexible than the Temporary Homes, these also end u in the prostitution circuit. School institutions work with social workers, a 'recent' drop- outs are frequent. Since the upheavals profession iiI Hungary. of 1989, slime alternative schools take in problem children, but it is still rare that real The new law on child protection, promulgated social work: is carried out at these schools. in 1997, sets up a new network of institutions, (Child Welfare Assistance). But the changes The opening up of the country has also brought hoped for will need time to take effect, espe with it a considerable increase in illegal immi cially since the fmancial resources appear grants: 80% of these clandestine children come inadequate and many institutions still have to . from Romania. Most are Roma sold to Hunga gain experience. rian adults. They are brought to Hungary where they are forced to work (or beg) in the streets. The Resource Centre is still in the project stage. And even ·f most of the young refugees from In March 1999. the National Advisory Board Bosnia stay in refugee camps, some of them met to propose institutions capable of carrying live illicitly. Moreover there is a large Chinese out the tasks necessary for such a centre. community in Budapest, which includes some The institutions which applied as candidates 3000 illegal immigrants (out of a total of around have been invited to express their expectations 8000). Aside from these categories specifiC to faced with this new tool. The co-ordinator must Hungary, we also find of course drug addicts, then visit them. At the end of the selection delinquents, homeless etc. So much for the process, the Centre should be set up in Budapest scope of the task... in June. INITIATIVES AT THE NAl lONAL l EVEl The Centre has established the following collaboration of a specialised newspaper to in objectives up to the year 2000: form that sector more fully of what is being done. The 14 organisations selected for funding · encourage co-operation between the par- . met in April 1999, and this was a first oppor ticipants in the programme (organisations tunity for personal exchanges. and "professionals in this area) · serve as a link with the authorities and The same goes for the training programme. public institutions With the help of two members of the National · organise lectures for everyone who is in Advisory Board, the co-ordinator will identify contact with street children the training needs of the NGOs and propose · create a network between the organisa a programme, which she will be responsible for tions and set up a training programme carrying out. A fIrst training session is already · organise meetings and conferences between planned for M~y and will focus on the follow the players who work in the child care ing goals: system. · information exchange about the organi , The exchange of knowledge and skills between sational background of the projects (some the players in the fIeld is also one of the pri of the projects are going on in cultural orities. It is one of the missions of the National settings, some of them in homeless service Advisory Board, of which several members settings or child protection settings, in come from public institutions or teach social volving different groups of children, having action at the Science University. Their partici different scopes and concepts about the a pation thus constitutes a considerable . dvan problems and solutions), tage in better "reflecting the information and · consensus building about joint considera in exerting pressure at both local and national tions for the evaluation of project outcome, level. In addition, each member of the consul · planning useful ways of co-operation, tative Committee has to specialise in a specifIc · formulation of expectations concerning area of the street children problem. the Resource Centre. The Centre will also have the delicate task of Each of the 14 NGOs selected can Send two peo helping the organisations fmd other funding ple: the contact person and a professional who sources at the end of the programme. In reality, is participating in the project. The questionnaire many Hungarian organisations risk being forced sent to the NGOs will enable their needs to be to end their activities after two years due to lack assessed .and the subject of the next training of fmancial resources. The Resource Centre in session, planned for October 1999, to be defmed. tends on one hand to identify the opportunities, inform the NGOs about them and help them in Pending the establishment of these structures this area, and on the other to approach the gov (centre, network, training), different steps are ernment in connection with the fmancial needs being taken to raise the awareness of the sector of the organisations concerned with street children. and the public in general: interviews in the press, a 1V programme for the young on .street As for the network, it is still in its infancy. children, etc. An article aimed at a specialised The 14 organisations selected in the framework magazine has also been written by the co of the programme have each received a list ordinator, while the public relations director detailing the contacts and activities of the other of the Soros Foundation is getting actively in NGOs. The co-ordinator is hoping to obtain the volved in a strategy to raise media awareness. LATVIA and for advertising. The future of the Resource Centre will depend on the maintenance of the . NGO Centre in Riga, on the activities of the network of NGOs selected by the Street Children/ Children in the Streets programme. 20 organisations participate in the NGO network Street Children/Children in the Streets. Given the growing interest of the third sector we ex pect that the network will expand in the near future. Representatives of various public and local institutions (such as the Children Affairs Committee at the Parliament, the Juvenile Police, the School Board, State Child Protection Although figures relating to street children/ Centre, etc.) will be invited to express their ex children in the streets vary according to the pectations with regard to the NGO sector and different sources, experts share the general more especially to the organisations participat beli~f that a third of Latvian families can be ing in the programme in order to be infonned regarded a ' dysfunctional for one reason or of NGO activities and to fmd the most effective another, and thus risk being incapable of pro ways of co-operation. viding for a hannonious development of their children. Other NGOs whose investments and efforts for progress of child rights protection in Latvia are The strate~ic plan produced by the co-ordina essential and which have already become power tor lists about ten factors which encourage ful and more independent in their activities, the develo ment of this phenomenon. Besides .such as Save the Children and the Latvian socio-economic factors such as the rise in the Children's Fund are not highly motivated to be rates of unemployment and of divorce, the plan come the active participants of the NGO net also pinpomts the lack of co-operation between work of Street Children/Children in the Streets, the instit tions helping children, the lack of although they are regularly infonned of all professionalism among the specialised staff, the activities taking place within it (meetings, the numerous contradictions in the legal frame training sessions, etc.). work, and gaps in the educational system (with, for example, a lack of extra-curricular The National Advisory Board has made its activities for fmancial reasons). selection of projects using a holistic approach to problem resolution. It assists and advises For the time being, the Resource Centre is try the country co-ordinator in carrying out the ing to assemble a maximum of infonnation strategic planning of the programme, partici (through books, reviews, newsletters, national pates in the evaluation of the projects retained and international laws) concerning the approaches and helps to disseminate infonnation, especially and working methods in the struggle against to the public authorities. the phenomenon of street children. Installed in the NGO Centre in Riga, it is open to all in terested NGOs and other specialists. A budget will be allocated this year and next for equip ping this centre, ordering books and periodicals INITIATIVES AT THE NATI ONAL rEVEl In accordance with the requests of the NGOs, has just organised a two-day seminar on the the training sessions will address the following problems of street children and Aids, and an themes: essay competition on this theme will be arran ged for secondary school students. · Understanding the child's development, and the importance of early relationship The problem of street children is now becom in the context of behaviour (4 hours) ing a priority for the public institutions, how · Optimal communication and management ever, there is still lack of clarity as regards of conflicts (11 hours) responsibilities at the different levels. According · The meaning of violence and assistance for to the co-ordinator, the NGO sector is becoming children SUffering from violence (7 hours) increasingly powerful and certain functions Street educators (street social work) and should be delegated. It is up to the State to street children carry out structural reforms, to provide avail · Teamwork and available resources (govern able and adequate assistance to children in mental, local, NGO - who is responsible need and to their families, and to devote more for what) effort to preventive work at school. · Protection of child rights. Legal aspects Two sessions have already been devoted to work with drug addicts and have highlighted the need for additional training in this area. This training programme attracts a lot of en thusiasm and many organisations within the network have shown great interest, some of them even participating actively. For example the Salvation Army puts its premises at the disposal of the trainers, which reduces the costs. In December 1998 the co-ordinator organised a press conference on the Street Children/ Children in the Streets programme, allowing the media to be informed of the actions and activities planned. Several journalists wanted to be kept regularly informed of the progress of the projects. The strategic plan includes fIeld visits for members of the National Advisory Board, and the media will be invited along too. Public awareness is currently at a fairly high level due to the publicity given to the activi ties of the programme's organisations as well as to other national and international activi . ties: a 20 minute documentary in November 1997, numerous articles in the local press, a lecture organised by the Union of the Intel ligentsia in June 1998. In addition, UNICEF sm ·J I~mls~N --------- LITHUANIA Nevertheless, these actions are still not really integrated into a global programme: the absence of long term vision, of co-ordination and co operation, the lack of training and of specialised staff are some of the problems most frequently quoted by the people in the fIeld. The Resource Centre is installed at the Children Support Centre, where the country co-ordinator also works. It has a library containing works in the areas of psychology, methodology and information together with articles and publi cations relating to street children. A data base contains a listing of information on the NGOs, It's very h Ird to determine the real number . institutions and private individuals active in of street ildren/children in the streets in this fIeld. Details on training sessions, seminars, Lithuania, partly due to the difficulty of help possibilities and so on are also available. defming these different terms appropriately Finally, it's a place where meetings and train and partly due to the absence of effective sta ing sessions are held. tistical melhods. However, reports from various sources in icate that children do indeed live All the NGOs and people working with street in the streets selling flowers or newspapers, children have been contacted by the co-ordi washing cars or begging in the main streets nator and invited to the opening of the Centre. of the large towns. Some of them work in small groups and share common responsibilities. The network is thus Among se',feral actions taken by the authorities, being formed little by little, in parallel to larger let's men 'on the Children's Right's Protection group work and the planning of common Convention ratified in 1995 by the Lithuanian activities. Parliamen · as well as the National Programme "Prevention of crimes among children and In order to enhance his strategic planning youth" prepared by the Ministry of Education work and follow-up of the projects supported, and Cultu re in 1996 and ratifIed by the gov the co-ordinator can rely on the expertise of ernment ill 1997. Since 1996, summer camp the National Advisory Board. Meeting gener programmes carried out by state or non-gov ally every two months, the latter has made ernmental organisations are obliged to include the selection of the projects, is kept informed "risk group" children (25% of the number of of their progress and advises on the longer children). term continuity of the programme. Around flfteen organisations are active in the The main training needs have been identifIed: fIeld of street children. Their initiatives - sem child psychology, family in crisis, management inars and training sessions, leisure activities, of conflicts, fund-raising, training of volunteers, medical c' re, educational programmes, summer schooling and motivation of this risk group. camps, selection of foster families, etc. - are A workshop covering the psychological prob supported fmancially by municipalities, parishes lems of street children has already been organ or the Ministry of Education. ised and four training sessions are planned. They will be offered to the NGOs, to volunteers INITIATIVES AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL working with street children, to police officers and teachers confronted with this group of children. The country co-ordinator is respon sible for the organisation of these training sessions. Representatives from the media have also been invited to the opening of the centre. The co ordinator and the staff of the Children Support Centre have been interviewed on television and by the press. They have given several lec tures in Vilnius and other large cities. Final\y, psychologists from the Children Support Centre as wen as the co-ordinator maintain contacts with th~ public authorities and insti tutions. By means of seminars and lectures they have presented to them the current situa tion in Lithuania and the steps already taken. Round table sessions have also made it possi ble to fmd ways of intensifying co-operation and improving the organisation of the work with the children and families at risk. Several local authorities and public institutions have expressed willingness to co-operate. It is now hoped that these same local authori . ties, as well as the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs whom those· involved in the programme will continue to follow up - wi\1 supply fmancial help, particularly-for the continued goals of the programme after the year 2000. The presence on the National Advisory Board of representatives of public institutions (police inspectors, direc tors of ministerial departments, etc .... ) consti tutes an undoubted advantage in this respect. MACEDONIA tion of the Resource Centre where the public will be informed of its goals. Also there will be attempts to promote the work of the Centre in the media in order to provide a more tar geted interest from all the relevant groups. The Country Coordinator will coordinate the work of the Resource Centre as well as the work of selected NGO·s. ," One of the primary goals of the Centre will be to establish a Network of the relevant organi zations (NGO and public) working or in con tact with the population of street children or in the fIeld of child protection in general. The resour e centre will function as an inte All the relevant NGO's will be informed with gral part of the library of the Institute of an offIcial letter and will be invited to use the Social Work and Social Policy. The resource facilities of the Centre. All interested parties centre will provide information and literature will have access to the centre. for street l·hildren. The most important litera ture, espedally manuals for work with street The training will be organized and coordinated children and children in crisis situations, will by the resource centre. The training will be organ be transla ed into Macedonian in order to be ised, according to the strategy, in two sessions. accessible to all interested institutions. The Cen The content of the training sessions will be tre will crt~ate two types of database - one will defIned according to the identifIed needs of be of NGO's working with street children and the selected NGO·s. The lecturers will be mainly children in general, and the other will be a data domestic professionals and scholars and, where base of th street children. The database of appropriate, a foreign lecturer will be invited. street children will be created in the fOmi of The sessions will be organised for the selected personal f es and the information will facili NGO's and for all relevant public institutions. tate the most efficient casework. The Institute of Social Work and Social Policy will give its The Resource Centre will be responsible for impact on the work of the Resource Centre by contacts with the media and will take all the providing professional assistance in organizing possible steps to increase public awareness the training and offering professional counselling about the street children population in order to and supervision for the NGO's. The students provide and initiate the necessary protection from the Institute will assist the Centre on a from society. The Resource Centre will organ voluntary basis in all its activities. ise briefmgs for the media to inform them about the implementation of the project and So far, the location for the Resource Centre its progress. The work of Centre will be pre has been defmed, and the renovation of the sented through the local 1V stations. The Centre infrastructure is in its last phase. Three out of will promote not just its own work but the work four agreements have been signed up with the of the NGO in the area of street children. NGO's. After the renovation of the Centre has It will send information letters to all state and been completed there will be a public promo local newspapers, radio and 1V stations. POLAND is usually taken up too late, when the children are already 13-14 years old, and when it's too late for signifIcant effects. The "street children/children in the streets" programme in Poland was started in 1991 with a meeting of representatives of organisations working with children, who produced a report . on this issue for the King Baudouin Foundation. The programme aims at improving the.situa tion of street children and helping them in the process of reintegration in society, working out an alternative care system for them and stim ulating co-ordination between NGOs concerned. The Resource Centre, which is located in Lodz Who are "'5treet children" in Poland? They are in the headquarters of Monar (an NGO) and is children \\ho spend most of the time on the administered by one of the employees of this street bec. use they don't have the minimum organisation, collects information on Polish of physical and emotional protection at home. NGO's that are active in helping street children The street is their home and school, a place for (until now, the Centre has collected data on more meeting p ople and a working place. The prob than 110 such organisations from all over Po lem of stn'et children in Poland is not as great land), as well as on projects and laws that exist as in Braz ll, Africa or African ghettos in USA. in Poland and abroad. The Centre also has ar Polish street children usually know who their tides and documents that have been published parents ar , and they generally sleep at home. in Poland and in Europe on this subject. However 1 hey are emotionally homeless. They usually li e in poverty, which is often accom There is still considerable uncertainty ~oncerning panied by addictions and other problems of the Centre's future after the year 2000. The lead their pare Its. Nevertheless these children go . ers of the programme would like the Centre to to school - more or less regularly. They earn be an integral part of the network of organi money be~ging, helping in petty larceny, wash sations working with street children. Between ing or guarding cars, selling things, sometimes 30 and 40 organisations have been offered to driving back trolleys in the supermarkets, or in co-operate in this network. prostitution. According to the estimated data in the age group between 6 and 18 years old, The national co-ordinator, a sociologist, has 13,50f0 of ~ hildren live in dysfunctional fami prepared a trairiing programme: the primary lies, whid is over 12000 (1200 thousand) in objective of the training sessions is to offer a the whole country. forum for the exchange of experiences between the NGO's who receive fmancial support from The dosed state re-socialisation institutions the programme. Training sessions on subjects for young people like care or educational cen suggested by the organisations and study vis tres are olt en a nursery for criminals. Children its have already started. During each study escape from these institutions and come back visit a representative of one organisation pre home to their own environment and family, sents to the others the project and the way even if it is harmful. Therapy of street children of executing it. INITIATIVES AT THE NATIONAL lEVEL One of the programme's other goals will be to increase awareness in public opinion by invit ing the media to conferences, putting journal ists in contact with the NGO's and informing them on a regular basis of some of the relevant issues. This is one of the tasks of the National Advisory Board. The presence within its ranks of a few VIP's (representatives of the Ministries of Education and Justice, the University of Lodz, etc.) should maximise the impact of this awareness and lobbying campaign. The Board is also responsible for finding funding that will ensure the programme's viability over the longer term. S~R~;r I~HI~R~l'J - - - - - - - - ROMANIA ings can be held between the NGOs and the local and central authorities (a basic agreement has been signed with the 15 NGOs concerned with the fate of street children). Relevant information can be obtained there directly or through a monthly bulletiri. Its activities are oriented round three basic ob jectives: to facilitate the partnership between the NGOs and the authorities by, for example, organiSing meetings on specifIc subjects, to co-ordinate any common projects, and to im plement training sessions. Longer term there is no shortage of objectives. It is intended to publish a study on the phe nomenon of street children in Romania, to list The Street Chiidren{Chiidren in the Streets pro all the social services active in this field, to gramme started in Romania in September 1998, inform them of the objectives of the Resource on the joint initiative of the King Baudouin Centre and how to access it, to prepare a com Foundation and the Open Society Foundation mon strategy for the protection and reintegra of Romania. The responsibility for developing tion of street children; and to develop partner and implementing the strategy of the pro ships between the NGOs concerned, - all this, gramme falls on tbe Romanian Federation of while informing the public at large and even Non-Governmental Organisations Active in attempting to change its perception of the Child Pro ection (FONPC). whole problem. The Resource Centre has already been opera These ambitious goals face, however, several tional in Romania for several months. It was obstacles. In reality many NGOs cany out their . set up in . ssociation with the municipality of actions independently from each other, even Bucharest (which funds the premises, heating in a spirit of competition which obstructs and electricity), the Romanian Government - effective co-operation. Differences in method Departme t for Protection of the Child-, and ology as regards problem-solving even lead to the Save t e Children organisation, which conflicts which impact negatively on the chil covers sal ries, furniture and equipment. dren themselves. Under these conditions, it is The Centr!", which in fact constitutes one of equally diffIcult to obtain information on the the projeCtS funded by the programme, is man children, even when they are helped by public aged by a member of the Save the Children organisations. But despite these diffIculties, staff. Some of its activities are monitored by the Centre maintains the goal it has set for itself, the programme co-ordinator. Three profes namely to establish a well structured and organ sionals w(Jrk there: a legal expert, anexecu ised institution, able to provide co-ordinated tive responsible for relations with other NGOs, data which can be effective in facilitating the and a programmer. reintegration of street children. The Centr currently possesses a complex data The National Advisory Board, composed of base (to b expanded with the help of various seven members, has selected the projects for experts), as weU as a meeting area where meet funding. It monitors the progress of the pro INITIATIVES AT THE NATlONA~ LEVEL gramme and advises on the strategies to be Based on this inquiry, an action plan has been followed, in close collaboration with the co worked out: ordinator. The latter has also developed a mon- . itoring system, both technical and fInancial, · A management training of 4 days has been of the 5 NGOs selected. organised with the technical support of the Foundation f or the Development of Civil A network has already been set up, as the Society. A first module on the subject of Resource Centre is working in partnership fun d- raising took place in February. with 20 NGOs and with the Department for 15 representatives from 9 NG Ds took part. Child Protection as the central authority. 20 NGDs of Bucharest offering services to Together they carry out common activities young street people will have the opportu aimed at helping street children directly. nity of improving their skills in p roject The Centre has received from the Programme management and of reviewing the function a modem and an Internet connection, as have ing of their organisations during a second the four other NGOs selected. Since January module in April. The constructive exchange 1999, this communication method has allowed of experiences between these NGDs is also people to obtain on request the monthly bul one ofthe results expected from these letin published by the Centre, as well as other two modules. information sourced from the data base. · In June 1999, a two-day workshop will address the "minimum standards for ser After 2000, it is hoped that the City Hall of vices offered by the NGDs to street children" the capital will take over the fInancial and and the "strategies for communication with organisational responsibilities of the Centre. the general public in the field of assistance The Department for Child Protection should to street children ': About foTty representa for its part fmance similar centres in other tives of the Bucharest NGDs and of the large cities where the phenomenon of street authorities responsible for the protection children has reached alarming proportions. of street children will participate, after arrangement into groups according to type As for the training needs of the NGOs, an of service (day centres, social, family, evaluation questionnaire and open discussions school reintegration, etc.). have enabled these to be assessed and some · In September, another 2-day workshop will conclusions to be drawn as mentioned above: address the subject of the rights of the child, as well as the communication strategies be · The participating NGDs need training on tween the players concerned with the pro the subjects offund-raising and project tection of street children. This workshop is management. offered not only to the NGDs and the man · There is a lack of communication between agement of the Protection of the Child, but the NGDs working with street children. also to representatives of the Bucharest and · A training on the subject of the approach provincial Police, in the hope of encourag to street children would be welcome, to ing common programmes and creating a facilitate communication between the man joint intervention network (NGDs and agement of the NGDs concerned with child authorities). protection and other players in street children protection. This training project has been sent to Unicef in the context of a request for fInancial support. SLOVAKIA In addition to these two categories, which are specifiC to Slovakia, there are also, as in other places, children who sell flowers in large cities. Most of them are Romany. In many cases their parent push them to fmd money in this way. . Also many young drug addicts engage in petty crime to obtain money. However there are no children's gangs in Slovakia. The rise in youth unemployment is likely to further aggravate this phenomenon. Given the extent of the problem, public insti tutions (Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Work, Social Affairs and the Family) are Over the last few years, the phenomenon of creating consultation centres, child psychiatric street children has grown in. scope in Slovakia. centres and social services. However, these This is due in part to the fact that the Slovakian various institutions only address one highly social system was not prepared to deal with the specifiC aspect of the problem and do not co political and social upheavals that occurred at operate very effectively with one another. the beginning of the 1990's. State organisations have not entered this field yet and for NGOs it is very difficult to fmd One of th legacies of communism is the huge sources of fmance. Also there is still a lack of dormitory towns consisting of blocks of flats, professionals in this fIeld. with insufficient opportunities for leisure and free time activities. As a result, many young Until 1989, social policing was the responsi people who live in them spend entire days in bility of 'social curators: Although the role of the streets and have contaCt with drugs..Petrzal these curators has since changed, their function ka in Bratislava is the largest of these units with is still unclear: they are supposed to protect ' 150 000 inhabitants. There was and still is a children, but they also have the authority to low mean age for treated addicts, the greatest place them in an institution. number (.) them are between 14 and 19. There is also a low age for the time at which the fIrst There are a considerable number of organisa contact With drugs occurs. In some cases it has tions in Slovakia that attempt to aid specifIC been younger than 10 years old. 62 0Al of all of groups: drug addicts, mistreated children and · Slovakia's young drug addicts live in Petnalka! children who are victims of sexual abuse, Roma children, etc. Crisis centres are opening all over There are many Roma settlements, especially the country. They provide psychologists, .social in the eas of the country. Many young people workers and volunteer students and are con together with their parents and families live tributing a new sense of professionalism. How in very p()or conditions. Because of their very ever the whole range 9f social services is not low educational level they are the fIrst to lose covered. There is a lack of street work pro their jobs. The unemployment rate of Romany . grammes with marginalised sections of the in some n·gions is more than 80 0/0. Some Roma population and of low-threshold centres despite parents go so far as to prevent their children the urgent need of establishing these facilities. from attending school in order to receive more In general, the associations that began their financial aid (granted to problem children). operations on an informal basis are much more INI TIATIVES AT TH E NATION"L LEVEL organised than certain public institutions, examining the possibility of working together which very often limit themselves to giving with the assistance of the National Advisory impersonal recommendations. It is generally Board. accepted that the Christian centres are the most effective, because they work individually with After having completed the selection process, all of the children, regardless of their race or the National Advisory Board organises a con their religion. sultation meeting with the co-ordinator every three months, in order to monitor funded pro One of the primary needs of these NGOs is, jects and to see if the implementation of the of course, money, whether to fmance facilities, programme accurately reflects the goals of the pay salaries, purchase equipment, and so on. strategic plan drawn up by the co-ordinator. Some of the other needs mentioned are as fol':' lows: a communications system between the In order to identify training needs, the co entities concerned, the application of laws that ordinator sent the NGOs a questionnaire, the exist to protect and support those who work answers to which will be analysed in April. with children in the street, training and access There are plans to organise three 3-day ses to concrete data. In addition, there are too few sions for roughly thirty NGO members and to centres that are open 24 hours a day, too few organise a 2-day seminar for 120 NGO employ professionals, too little co-ordination and no ees. This training will be given to the eight system for families with major problems, no organisations selected, as well as to some fIf research or needs assessment networking. teen other associations that deal with the prob There is ~ great interest in bringing new expe lem of street children.The project is supported riences from Western European countries. by the Ministry and includes the participation of several psychologists and speCialists in this The Resource Centre in Slovakia is currently area. called 'Inquiry and Documentation Centre Street child' (IDC). Its development is progressing A meeting is scheduled with SLONAD (Slovak according to schedule: the premises are in the Hope for Children) and UNICEF, which are process of being equipped, the databases are already working with the Ministry to draft being updated and new relationships are being new social legislation~ a established with 16 org" nis;ltions from around the outskirts of Bratislava. 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JOT mrlltally IuJl,dicuppr!fi clrl/drrll ami Ihosr wllo alT tspe(',allyc giftftl (through ho'"rs'dps), '0 TIlt: (,lUmIt proJtd aims rslllblisil and opmur a diIy-CIIn! w,rrr for Iromde rlrlldn!ff prolfidlng Ireoltlr Cllrr, ltgdllJdp~. ITllt.mtio" tDUJ edllallionol programmes to improllf! arial flllrgrntiolt. 3S Ilildl%II ftvm l~ Hasio.1O rtg(on aTt t"ready bll'O/vrd, and ,IIt c"ntre is opnl.frtnn 84m to 4",. daily /t is 1000atrd "at to rilL" odAl CtllT CO"'pla but II«ds lIUliltmulnCf wor" to t'JISUl'l' proP" UNJ~r IJffd rkdricily slIpply. Efforts II1iU be madt 10 Gttnlct ;1ItelTSt aruJ support from 10 01 flu in e 4IId 10 raist'IIII'I1Ie allHl1ntt$S. PlACE Sofia ORGANISAnON THE fREE AND DEMOCRATIC BULGAllIA FOUNDAnON ADDRESS 24, Venelln str. ent 2 · 1000 Sofia TEl/FAX +359-2.988 82 73 E-MAil fdbfound@malLbol.bg PROJ£CT NAME N~w ProSpcclS for th Drvclopmcnt of tbt! 'F Ii. Hope and Love' Centre for Home! ChUdren aESPQNSIBLE PERSON NAUYA NEDKOVA De FDBF (IIJIS ~rtd p~ i~huIing SOIIIt.for sm:tt cJdkJmt. ""til IJ C1tild~rr Qwm for lroJfldl!ss dillilITJJ callrd 'Faith, Hupe, tmd l..oPr'. lilt Ircfbmurtlon CmllT I1ff ~ Cldldft'fl. Cillil Socitty rmt~. jounrallsm ,mrs find Outward Boullll courses for ~ilJlly tlisatl'IGMIgrtI yovrrg ptO,le. Jltto CJIJ'mII projm CllllCmB tilt Cltildrart CmIn! UlhidJ luis IUlfulkd over 300 th,ldmt sitler" sttntrd til 1M tJfIl oJ 1.995111U1as 110",.fmpImml ~ 30 '0 40 dtll4ml a day. aged ~ 3 IUId 16· A 'tOnI oJ.upms 4Iso nIMJIIrmfrtUrs rrguknly J/lit. 180 dtiltIrrN · orr mU lWing 011 rJut stm'IS, o./Ji'rhIgJrte IftNicints tIfUl lUll/Ire. 7h Ct'IIln" itsrlf Iw II $lOJI oJ 14 /lHlrIrDrg Off Nucarioll, ",lISle. arts arrd craftJ. os fIJtJl as hmlllr CIIR'. A tomtkss rlrildml #ttIpliltt Is also plattrttd witltilt tilt projrrt, wltldt Iwuld Imprartt tht fjftctillr:.1CSS turd MOlt. Of lilt ItOrt III tile stTttls. PRO s BU RIA OCJETY POR PRatt1~·A 21 Petko D. Prtk.ov st1' Eilt B ap J · 7000 Ru TEl +)59-82484 661 FAX +359-82.229 612 oc:iaUzation of CbUdren SI8LE PERSON DR SIMEON TODOROV TIl om .as km wmmg ",ith 1lIUl~ tfrlltlmi.flir 4 )WI'S tlftd "as upmnrcr 1111111 thvg 1LSL"rS· .you",;rro ~ aM lIiolnru. The tWmIt,., is a.. aUitUm t~ uLstIII9 sIIrltrr for smet cldldmr "Russ~, nlll by tM B"'garia" 10 Rtd 1JIt /I!DfI1tUffmt b,dlld~ outrtGrll IIIOrt, IrtfomW «hItMUnt I. ,. Uy cnrtrr. prtIcllctll suppoH wi'" _ ~thillg, mad COXItId IVUIt .ftmtill~ JUkre po ihk. Burgas . · 8000 Burps K.aowing Cbi.Id Sdlool BWAN" GITAIlOV Hope ~.5Ot."I,tio worts IJI ,Iteo RO"'tJ qu~r of Burgas OM is co-opmtiHg with rllco BlllgoriGn Red C'T/J.tS ill tbi IPmjttt. It aiJII to 'Jlformal rdut"atioJl for 24 strrtr clt"dmt, .split jlllo two ageo grovps, iJi II class room/dJJy pIDlIl C'tJI~ Tnt dti,." UtilI spnrd 4 II011TS II dtl1 rltm. 'lit 12 youff9" rldldrttt 0" w«ifdays tlnd tltt old" one' otIrr tit UIt'i~d. A RtmllI ptrstn. WUlIJC'lIU II mrdiator to uppon tit" IrUdrt:fl. most oJ1I1ham do IIot spttlll B go n. All n«asary MUClJtiorUJl rulC'ritlIs as wdl as food will br ptOl'idC'd PROJECT BULGARIA PLACE Plovdfv OROANISArtON BOARD OF TRUSTEES "RADA KIRKOVJTCH" ADDRESS Dimiter Tchonchev 11 · 4000 Plovdlv TEl +359-32.64 16 22 FAX +359.32 8641 92 PROJECT NAME CrHtion of a bomr for tJttt ChiIdrm RESPONSIBU PERSON ALEXANDRINA Ko TOVA n~ argrurisalion ~ ill Plovdi,' ill ro-opt'f'otioJl with tilt' Mlilltdpczlity, rll~ R~gioruJl Ct'IIfn' for SOCUII Ctnt, ,,,rd tier NGO fflIt'Ir. 711" latl" tartN tI hrltt'r for tm't dtildmt JUlfdtd Iry tit PHARE progra",,,,r, with til" RrgiontJI Ct'IlIrr for SDcilJI carr L'Urmrlly COlirring tM. rulfnin9 rosrs. Tilt 8oQrrl' projecl inamillts outmlrh wo,. 4S an addJtfon to thr shrittr, support for "hildrrn a.~id it, rqJUpPlnaI of tilt sh~ll~r (tlWcDtiarud matrriDls, TV rl .J, rrJutiurtS with tlat parrnlS and pmrUlnml ('OIlton IIIltJt iMtitutiolfS WilD CIIJI occomrllodatr cllUdrrr,. REPUBLIC PlACE ROZI BEl RIZIICA Bolzanova 1 · Prague 1 TEL +420-2.242 144 53 FAX +420-2.242 61 62 ON MARTINA ll"MUNDOVA TII~ InJQn DII doe autrra It ulOrlr lind provldts II collllSdlfrrg ~treJar ItcntJg~ pmstitults and thriT ('hUd · IlIdud"'g dwposi and trtalmml ofSIDs. The JIfIOiCCf targtU 50 girl: i" th~s~ tll'0 groups and allftS 10 ~OCIlIlist th~s~ lffGl'gfMlbed girls and thnr ung 1ri/IImf. The g1l1Mm~ cumpri~ thm' aspects: ",on with rM rriDlltrr 011 d~loplag posflh~ IlltlhUt lOll/IUds th,,;r ild eIIJl uPic~ all basic C'ilucatiDrt; crisis IIItrlllnftiOIi wlrlt ,iris Off ,Itt snttf for ,Itt ./in' lintt. u,;," !"PulISt'lll,.. music and fllbbo-tllnapy. airKed at pmtUUlirrg fMm ro renun to tllnr!amUin or rri4tiJx!s: IIIId Nlp.for Irtnadas girls lrJ' pmvfd;rt9 rmrptJrary IJ$Y'",", caurudli",. sport and ctaltv",lactiritia. and rtrimlfltimt. PlACE Pizm SOCIAL ASSISTANTS CENTRE Houskova 11 · 301 54 Pizm rEL/FAX +42()"'19.745 66 77 E SLEEP-STOP 1ggg PERSON JAN DRNEIt TIre C etIt.'I ...d IIIOllltOrs plal'es Jar )'Oung propl(' to lII('('t, ,,",1.Uln "tlp in St1IVlIJg COnfliclS, NU it onnl ond thtToprulic- trvicf. Tlte rmst pro d largets 0 puo group ofabout .30 m('mflers ag('d belUJf!f'JI IS aJld 25 1DIr0 " " DIIti somll find tIrt qJtm ",noways. 11 alms to olftr Irmporary a ytum oml",",odlltiOfl I" etmJatQS rltt cily 0" outs · to mtli4lt with pal'C'ffB ",Itrtf pwlble, 4IId to rquip and rult 0 ll00rbhop for prodlU.'tiJlr .9cmlttt/JDnrrbtg ICtil'ities. ACCOfDIodIitiOll utili k olfiortd to th05r /Vito sltow willingrrru to plfrtinpalt po imtriy,mll tdbiBst tltd, jinolfriat sil'lUUion. Thr p10jm ItDpes to Itdp limit ,''('" Isolation atld social mist'ry Jtl' II)' tid group. P OJE H EPUBLI PLACE Pudubice ORGANISATION nUB HUR IAMARAn ADDRESS Pichlova 1339 · 530 02 Pardubi~ TEL +420-40.514 375 FAX +420-40518 6]) ·MAlL kbt@pce.C% PROJECT NAME Ired homr for cbildmllil Deed RESPONSIBLE PERSON Tltr Klub has bmr 1U0ritrlfR IUlth sum "hildma sincr /994, oftn IUiIIt Roma thWmt, tiM iD 1991 stlUtrd to run a crisE alld anti-dru, cnrtn'. ilrt' torgtt group for tlte C'IIm'ftt rmdect is about 180 boys ad girls, in die 6r-U aruI 13-18", rrmget. TIlt .3 rrtIIErt goals arr: (a) the Dpmrt' qf a communal ctrtlrC' for tilC' IquItr 4ft! InntJI to tUstract 'bm./l1Prf mmirwllnldmt:iu; (bJ fnvruImEng mt tJC'tiviti~ of 'ht anri-df1l!l «n~ iIIto .. 'opefl ('1Mb' wllleh ""11 pnnrldt 'Noela/isi", tlC'lhrliin: artd It'j o11nitr, tI frmJHInfIY Iumrt a'flll ~ar.tknt for 15 tD ISs wlro ~ alxnuIontd s"hool, ad IlqtJtll 0" somt' .sort of mtRE"Q/ actilllty to rIIiw'. PLACE Blausko (Adamov) ORGANISAnON REGIONAL CHARITY BLAHS 0 ADDRESS Komskrho 15 · 678 01 81amlto TEl +420-506.53583 FAX +420-S06.41 7 51 "PROJECT NAME RESPONSiBlE PERSON MOL UOJSLAV MOuF.R TIlt! Rrglorral C~rity ojfm IIrtJ0"9 Dtltrr tai· · an tJSylum ItDIUe for rtlotlrm arul dffl4tr.n. and old pC'OplC"s "omt', a day cart' C't'IIrrr for harrdiC'dppl:ti ,,"ilbm arid a Itrlp linf', TIlt ~1lr'mII proj«t tlJrgtts 60-120 young peoplt'from 12 tD 20 ad E""DWes t~ cmt1iDfl " ,,/a 'G,1dm Statiort coJUistillg 0/ 1I1~ rooacs: rlJt first for COlllIStUlng scs.s1DRS willi II PS1Cl!oIogist· .soaa' IIIOmr fir IaUiJlt'r. the smlJul for lise lIS a fN. mom "rut UIOrellop and prrre.s/aditlity dIN. '0 ",,4 ""rtf drt IIItttirrgs EnrlrMlirrg torrCt'rt5 tnrd dDn«.s. 71rt 'station ' plarr.s optrr four tinrtS a wt't'lr. for IIJ~ REPUBLIC PlAC Blansko ORGAJIIISAnON NGO utlTA ASSQCJ 110N ADO S Oipkova 10 · 678 01 BJansko TEL +.420-506.410110 EMAil mdaDek@okub~a PROJtCT N"ItE RES SIBLE PatsON ALE Huzoa 'The' sor::f4lljoll hru IIlOrlttd with trrtf dtilIlmr sI"Ct' 1995 jirst UJitlr olll4Dor ocrhlilies Ilrullllkr JIll'" ad The' '.I« ItlrJtU llbout 200 .vauR' ptOp'~ 'It "It 12 10 1B agft group ad olms ro tlthad ,lartfl lIWIIiJI j'nmI thr: 10 die' sqfo,OM stimu/atmg I'fIII.ronrrrmt oJth Club UU/4. Th Of'( rrr 611 ic D p«ts. 'loltl-tltrrsluJltl' IK'lillitic5 Sit tIlt: dub (trnUic, video cWcu.ssrolio '''"UII rfgltts); outrb»r CO.fIJI: OM Gft/llille'S inl'luding rortlnllltd ptuJmtnft spmyht, ".., OfItd"or rontrrts; aU odal nef' ..dudi", rontaC15 utlth Iht tllIlltorlties and ch"", lI"d COIIftStUing. Olomouc rEl/FAX +42D-603.444 414 Community work wi R NSIBlE PfJlSON MILOS KRIZEK Tht tJrganlS4lt'an a/Trudy ulOrlts with youlf9 Foplr bt1wrrn I S arid '8 who Irtlng OfII in tht rretU, lIS we'll as W h Norna Irildn'll. ' The mjra III'fttt JO boys lI"d 20 girls in th,s tlgr: 9rouP wlro hollC Itft st'l.ool rtlrly, OM 1m I.ff«:tr.tl by pl'Obffms cit akoltol tmd drug abuse. It aim to "", a "'lib for thtR childrm wItDC' dtry CDII JlGrtfclpalt' in a«iviti indJUlblg Qrnuo,*, coner"s lind l71:urs/o1l.S. mrd m'riV(' coUtrsellfng. Tndrdng of PO'"I1(<t childrm iner' 990. artd ~rabilShrd a Itlflporary ',",1M' for hlltln''' in 1998. TIt proj«t oiJrtS ro pnnIide sqfrty and Ol'portwrtitirs ftr Mglertr.d or oblW'd IUldmt DM .young J1tOple, by drowing ,"em ill '0 ,,,~ 'Y0IUh Help Hou · ,,'' err ,hey call obrolJl rducstlollal ,l1li J15)'Cllologir;dl COUII SC'lling alld tire 114JU'f! '" partidptJlr ill 'IIIlriDus a,,"";tin to develop rlld, sIUUs. OrArr orgalliS4tiollS slid 4S WAr Rt and 1M Family Assl.stDrttt Cf!IIm art' co-opmlting by prol'iilillg jltunicUJl hdp ad sp~ rrsp«li.ltly. PLA I! Kazinc:barclka ORGANISATION 80 CO· VOCATIONAL AND PRIMARY CHOOL ADDJlESS my PROJECT NAME RE PONSIBLE PERSON LUClACS BARNABAS 7k"o.J«t ItIrgt'lS 20 IdbItefr I" tile 10-14 ogr grollp alld 3J ill IIIe, 18,",,,p, "'GAy o!tllmj'rOm 1otIIn)/ families. II abIU to bro4d9 ~ !/If of adiv;/irs providr.d alUi 1'0 promotl! 'ht rhihlmt· frtl~ ,..to ~I!ry nd a COrt5lrilduIr dmnufc to ,1Iri, JUrurr:. 7ftC' ,",gron""~ fnllGlres a mtrturr oj r.dUl:4tion41 and /r«-tilllt lJc:tiritirs. IIfKllllollai gJddItncr aNI .sodal srnrkr, artd WIll R I!IIrrim out win. ,Itr C'G-opt'mtiort 0/ rltl! Murticipa'"JI. ,"/! 'ocol gourmmnrl of ,IIr RomotdtS. ,,,,11 ,It EthlNtio"al CourtSC'llI", OlJicr. . "LAC! Miskolc "SUNSHIN Bamss G. Ut 13-15 TEL +36-46.345 471 E PERSON TOTH JOZSEP TIre Fburrdldlo.. i/lS bMr dNlhlg wttl. stnrt drUdmt si,,~ 1996 bfolnhlhring a Hrrrltlr lind Mntlal H~(JI'h enr Jo,. tlc' """~I~ The project 10"", 15 boys aM 45 girls khIImI 10 IUId l B . an 5Mbj«t 10 tnlGItt'}'. tIIlatfmtlli inslability aml tInlg aMidlDns. It /lbu to p1Ofll. d4t1, , " t i l " , ' . sod4L CDTt'. prrmui&'" CD1UUf'ru.., a~ IHutc ItMlth mvif: . ~ program,"r itwolPrs OOfIfmfUtiry-buUtll.., atUI C'IIlhnJ at1WitirKas ~Ilas alftp . PLAa Alpad u .·llb· 4400 Nytrqyhaza m...., 6-20.9677 551 LASZLO PAt1YAN ]Or tltt pro)«l L'dJm ZBO lIOJIS tuHI glris bttw«IC tile agrs 016 ,JIll 18 who an f'ilII.., 01 :pntd rmnr qf drdr Ii".,. '''rrr. ....",loU!net at Itoml.". Till' prognmrml." i",'O/aor ronlaC" at the trret /rvd. tht l'OlIrctwn oJ iliformalioll O1I.tltrir prob~m und porrnt"" $olulion and tire prrparutiDrt oj guidelines tin tramu'or. Jor u (' by other professioJla/ ill thl! future. PIA f 'Riga ORGANISATION OCIAL EDUCATION SUPPORT FOU D .nON ADDRESS EiBenijss St. · 1007 Riga TEl +371-7.371 346 FAX +371-245 89 37 E~MAIL attistib@com.lalntt.lv PROJECT NAME Educational programme for work with stnet cbDdren RESPONSIBLE PERSON Thl' projl!~t objective IS to impllWt' aHd d~/op ti,e .nowltdge tmd sltdl of Uptrrs and volu"r~rs involved ilt IVOrk with trrtt chiltln"H, tn ordn to comb~t furthn int:ffll es in (hetr numbm. The prugrammr irwoh'('s: arglJrrisirrg 24 onc'-da rrainjmllVorltshops (14 in Riga. 10 tlsrwhrrel for Ihe taff of day centres. chiltlmr' homes. municipal polite and srhool rracltm (tolo1 480 JlQrliripaJIIs} delle/oping a study plan for «wI C'imtt rudtnts~ pmtntirrg a course of Itmlrrs at 3 highcr cdu aria" ntablish",r"ts: pnd publi h'''9 nMl' matl."rial u rtI in tM worltshops. PLACE Vilnius (RudininJru) ORGAHISATION AODft S Rudinlnku 20-1 · 2001 VlItd", TEl +370-2.113890 or +370-2.617434 fAX +170-2.611414 PROJ NAME ru 0 anisOtfcm ha /Icm working rontiJlUOII$Iy urUII tmd cldldrm for 2 .)tta1S. ~ prqjrct _ bodr clUJdmt in r~ 7-16 age f1Dl'P IllIto IuJw. .",w sdtool and show driblqllCtt bduJ. I1iour. nd dtflJfffPJ I/tnlll!tn 6 II1Id '4 jttmt It;gh rl$1t pnlbn jiuJdlla IIIho orr f. dtlllfrF of gaiNg · IUlmt WII)I nco prpjC'Ct ~y a s.v Inti of sodJJl. prdtJgogko' and ~ologiml support Jor botIJ tire dd.l.dml and ".fIml1 rIU'IIIbm. h btllOkIes ~uIlIr group Il10'* uiftIJ rM pamUs IIftd wfflI ,Itt thU4mt 12 grtnql of 8 ~ II ~. ph&s "r.ttutsio lind ftI(fIts (~(I. Etut~· .AlI tlrilbtlt ...11 0&0 be fI~W to pattidpal~ in 'lar AJIC pntgra,.",r oJlrring prdQgogi('QI lid, QruI Q day t"t'JItrr. The' C'CttJi rrsw/t bd$td 011 p,",ious upmt'~. Is a ItI,II ratl! of trtrim to c1too/. arrd Improffli Jilmlly rrlalllllflShlp5. PlAC£ Vdnius (rotoriu) ORG ATION LITHUANIAN CHILD'S RIGHT PROTECllO ORGANISATION · AVE THE CHILDREN:' ADDR Otoriu 15 · 2001 VUnlus TEL +:170-2.610815 FAX )70-2.610837 E-MAil gdbvaik@postomairu NA ....E tnet sodologist training RES SIBLE PERSON AURELIJA OKUN KIENE Sinct' 998 tIlt' Organisation has brtn worlrin!l will, 6 dilJlrrn bt!tu'C'C'n 14 and 17 gilting rhrm intm", rarr. '0 but fownd ;, 4li.tfkult krrp IItmJ ("onti"uall motillllt('d. 711(' Pf'9jccl IPrctirally targrb 10 srr«t ddldrrn subj«1 '0 drugs alld prtty L'rlmr bill i al$(J mC'Q1II to be' IImotltl Jor ehr "hair t'0IUItJ)' alld to amllrr 'hr attrrelion Of ,lit' ~dia. I, .im 10 mllltr"strttl odologists' 011' o/,It(' ("Jiild"" through rrglliar snJions "lid ("ouJlSrlling with psychologists and soclat worlr,.rs, so lJuzt rh~ C'4II not' on ~tum to srhool bll' hC"p th('ir /rl('JIds aRd "tho "hildrrn llf the rOlltr.rt oj t~'t Stm'r Child,.,. Crlflre'. ontrs,. ploy-at"'rtg aM prartiral warlt. hop are plollned tJS additirmal IIftiPiti " PROJECTS LITH UAN IA PlACE Vilnius (M.Paro) ORGANISATION MONASTERY OF ST JOHN'S CONGREGATION ADDRlli M.Paco 4/ 1 · 20~5 Vilnius m +370-2.744415 FAX +J70-2.618270 [-MAIL snj@puni.osr.J1 PROJECT NAME Children of St Jean R~PONSIBLE PERSON· GREGOIRe PLUS TIlt" organisatioll opl'nl'd a night-stay 1t01ll" alld obsl."TVanon ('mlrt i" 1997. The' 01"",' projrct rargrls bOlls und,.,. 14 wllo ha~'1." abandonl'd chool alld suJfrr from laclt of Irygiml'. errorli,," by old,.,. boo ,/onrli1ll' ~ alld drug obusr. It oint 10 grt thm off tlrl' trtl't tmd bad/ III school and thrir JilmUil'S It'hm possible Four tagt art pwn"fd; ('"ntact in tltr sfrtl't. usr of thl' night-stay homt'o USl' of thr obsnvation c:t!ntrr as soon as tltt')' haw drddrd to quit Irtd life, and the :ramily Jirtpla«' for tho r who C'(lnnot go badt 10 their fomilie bill ulanl to "rtlum to 5 hool. PLACE KaUDa5 ORGANISATION INSTITUTION Of MARIE CHRISTIAN SUPPORT DAUGHTERS Mariu 20 · 3023 Kauna TEL +370-27.737278 FAX +370-27.137706 PROJECT NAME Th Day Centre of Palf'lDonas RESPONSIBLE PERSON LmOJA-Au RA uRYBAITE The' In ti",tion Iounded rhr Do Cr"lrt tulO yl'Grs ago and lDrgrts children from unstable fiimilir, who do Rot tlllr"d school regularly tmd Ilrc' rrmprrd by pmy mmr. The projr('t amls 10 Cl1ntinllr with lhe ulork offt'nJing and Cllring Jar tMsr C'hildrt" 4IId helping 10 drlltlap lhrir SOMal kills: and IIa/Ul'S. Tlrr programmr of thr Day Cr,ntrf' Indud daily homrwm and gllmrs, wnltly rommunirntion and romp1lt" lraining, m!l5ic lJ"d films, rEllnions "Jld etltmtio" of fl'I'gious /tsHI1a1s. E.rprrit:lfce so Illr shDUlS that morr chil41rtn will br stabiliJnJ tmd I"('IU," to "hool 10 achin'e bd'rr rc'sult . PRO E C s LIT H A N I A PLACE FOUNDATION 'CENTRE FOR SPIRITUAL SUPPORT FOR YOUTH' IN KLAIPEDA 27 · 5815 Klaipeda TEl +370-26.360411 FAX +370-26.160412 E-MAIL dpjc@dp.ic. Ip.o f.ll Crimr Prnmlion Projrct for 'Street Childn!n' of the city of Klaipcda ING DAUGVILAITF. Thl! f. IIndbtio1f "as fKol!lt 'JI~lilll! Jor Jour ~'ellT$ lUi,h 0 p~umril'/! ProgrJIfMlt' wh risk group hildrelt lind f IIog qO haV(' NJmmift('d rimr or an: /mm Jos'~ hom . Th(' PfOjl!l'f ./m It) co,,,f,,wl! Ihis and 41$0 C'Tta'/! a Ittw group for young!!'r strr:d hildrell who risle go'"g 'ht' SQlt' wd)'. \lb/"'"It'l!r YO&ldt Iradm oj oll('r 16 will bt'millrd to utOn with lht' rl,UdlTlI ill ulltmtr camps and II sptdalisl.from tht' 11 u'ill assist in .Q program"./! otld/'f'SSed to parmt oj tht' 6 to 12 agt' group r'lCmlrr2fmg II morr poslti'~ and heoltlw approach Thm- uti" b.- Q eminar Jar pcdagog~s, pqlie(' offie and JIOt4Ir INUlm and t'd~ation aboul AIDS. Thl! "'''jret 1/oIl11 bt eonrm/rQttd in thl! plIOr ZltrjybOS di trirl of KIlriFda, whm: thtrr orr:1 reondUlY chao but u!ill br Opnl 10 youths.from 'he IIlholt' laUlrt. PRO EC S MACEDONIA PLACE Skop~ ORGAN SATlDN ASSOClAT10N OF WOMEN'S ORGANI ATIONS OF THE REPUBLIC, OF MACEDONIA (AWORMI ADORE RVasll Gorgov", P,O, Box ~71 I 000 Skopjt TEl/fAX TJ89-,1.126 185 or +189-91.)10 162 E-MAlll.\wonn@soros,org.mk SAVlA TOVOROV is II nCbllorit oj U'OIll ,,'s orgllnislJriDJIS who wort for ,"~ inl!!' IS oj womt'n and tht'ir duldrm ",arm,,' nd rrdrvral u/(J.~, A '''bprd ~tn.-tt drlldrm rhri, ~ hallt J(J far beC'II in thl! sUf11111 and lorking, Tlrr nt pro.i«t (prgrt rhr mothrl'$ oj ,hlldrtn who IIrr on Ihr SIlTtts begqing, trilling Glad sometrme'S inr'ol, in pro ritunon, It ailaS ro prol'id~ thrm wil" the n('('('.ssary plTparatrnn 10 farilitulr "IU," 10 a 1/o,.,.al' lifo TN" plfWrantm III /0 t for 6 mOllths and ilWolvt w('('I">, memllg oj mothers and chlldrrn who orr IIIts 'raJt durfllg IIIhid, didot:tf.; ",alrnals dn'('laprn b.l' ~ will k usnl (0 rdIK'JlI" Ihe", Gnd raise' thrir awa :s.s 0 (h probte"u and olutions availabk to tilt"" PLAC Skopj toea! Community uRl\lko Zinzifov M · 91 000 TEL/FAX +389-91.621 0)1 "EducatioD, (jam a.ad New OpportuuJties M KJMI!T AMET AND K£VS£RA MI!M£DOVA TIl,. oda~on ba ,t: a,m IS rll~ rmanrlpa(jo~ of tltt' Roma /VOlIIQn and the e/i"'lnatwn uf011 Jorms oj di '",i",lI;o", 17rr p,."Jrct targrls obout 70 bO'y$ and )0 girts aged bttwem 8 and 16 in tk alO Orizi uttkment alld the m o[ TDfIOGIla. "'herr ,ht'. c "i/d1'f!ll ojtm miss or 1('OI1e rhool alld get infO dru9 and ddlJlqun.cy dur ( ",.ir fomtly' rCOIlomir hardship, a a~ piannrd: Jnl'parorio". including rlecdon Of40 ' '19'' mit' CtJSt!:S from ,h" la"r( grallp ptlmon qf tht. ESMA I'",,";~s for rncrfill{J /rolln riling, s(' SIOll51vi1h G psychologist -;nr:lrtdillg ,rti tlJsrussl(fflS Ground rb1fllkr itIUItWns, btlp with df(J01 worlt, plus rrtrr.lJtumal arad culnual ani trlrs: aruI rtgular ",a/uation of tire rrintegrarlon prort s. PROJECTS MACEDONIA PLACE Bitola ORGANISATION M ADDRESS M Jo!>if Hristovskl 4/4 · 97 000 Bltola TEL +)89~97.222 874 FAX +389-97.252 600 PROJECT NAME "Stntt Childrenl Children on the ~ts In Hitola" RESPONSIBLE PERSON DR DUANA GOROIEVSKA This n('Wry jomr~ orgamsatian plans 10 largn aboul 10 Sl~' childrr!n bdwrnt 7 and 18 ;n lilt' 'Ba/r' ami oj thl' C'ily, tdftt:trd In' poor heallh a"d dtlmquNlc)I. Thl' project infro"'e making ini"al C'ontal't u,;th IIle I' rhildmt lINd Iht ~tting up and running oj a dDy ct'ntn' to gn them off Iht' tn'et!l and help litC'm utith ellool book, bttter ")'fIirne, jtHHl, and odal and cultural a{'tivitiC's. Effons will also bC' madt' to mist' tlrt' aurarr!nt'SS oj.!Iollf'mmMtal and other publIC instituliolJ5 oj tht' nffll for mOrr! lasting $Olutllllls 10 rht' problt'm of tm't hlldft'n PLACE ORGANISATION JOURNAliSTS POR CHILDR N'S ANI) WOMEN' RIGHTS AND (OlOOY IN MACEDONIA ADDRESS N Jane Sandanski" 86-2/15 · 91 000 Skopje TEL/fAX +389-91.446 t3S E-MAlljew @yakoo,rom PROJECT NAME Children' Hope RESPONSIBl£ PERSON NATA A DOKOVSKA TIll n~l,\I /umrrd argon' ation consists mostI.... oflouma/i t!I /Jut also ti«,ors, psydI~'$ and tdllca~rs. lls largt'l groups lUI' Str~fl dtildnon lind tlwsr ubjt'C" to MUSt' mull1lI.tJidions. a.~ wll as womm loicti"'S ojl'iokntt Tltt' C'UTmlt projtcl (sjrx:ustd on 2S children betUlt.'f'II 6 and 14, most ofthml from Romajumilil'S, ,.,ho rardy an('nd chaot and art nrgl«tC'd by Inrir parr!nrs, TM programmt' inl1otvt!s idC'JItifYlng tht. Irildmr. ill/omrinD rhem about 0 new r-ntrr'in ludiAg a 'ka ltitdlC'JI ' whl'rt 'h~ can get II Irol mral and om(' dothe'S, and fantitirs for prtpamrion Jar 5£'hool and mC'dical attm.~ tin wlt"rt ""("I'ssary. EI1eJ1llUllly il is Hoped /0 dC'lr('lop tht: t:t'IItrt into a Ito"'C' for slftd hlldmt. and ajtC'1 thC' fim year 10 publish tht' {irst book on JIlt! condition 0/ tr'('rl Irildrtn in Macedonia PRO s P 0 D PLAC£ Poznan MUTUAL HElP fOUNDATION "BARKA ul. 8ydgoska 6/7 · 61 123 Posnan TEL +43-61.B77 2265 or T4B-61.877 0506 FAX +48-61.8774823 NAME Chtldrm in "Barka" SIBLE PERSON The "datlo" i5 IH'li»" i" sodol intrgratiolf. rcology .ar,d ~uct1tiDftt" coursts for tile poor ,,,,d tmmrployrd. TIlret' frollp6 ofdlUdmt are targtted IInikr tire project: ~ already ailing I" Itosuls (aIJOlit 20). thosr ho part'flU partiripatr .11 the Danish pOll cnrd Ko«:/"Md "001 programmr to pmltJlt DriIII morgl IlstUfow about 1 SI. and a jiur/.n' 1S from locaJ,.,ral tnrmntIIitirs. 17tr grntUll' ~Iudl's the ,.,,,,,ill, ofa Idnlkrgartm. rtgullJr tlttrapy ,nd rduC'Glton JOr pamtlS I" child rr. tlCtiJlltirs and addiction PmltntiOfl, flIId 'IIoJ""'trr5' ramps. PLACE: Poznan ORGA ATION NOMADIC UNlVERStTY OF IMAGINATIoN OF STREETS ADORE Tn/FAX +48-61.853 5976 PROJ NAIIII "A Child Entuing tht' H~. Eah:rlng th W rid- RESP IBlf PERSON MARIA LmUD21 z aniMriol CO"«II"alr OR cultural, lut; fir (",d rcologirol educatiOn, and its prqJtd Is aitrttd tit ,wul tuid ph leal ulC'Jl-bting 0/ childf'f!1l at nslt dul' to pOllrrry alltl n~/f'('t tty i,noolWrg ,IIftrj i" su " lIS tn,';roMt(1ltQI pTOrrcrion, Tier grOup ~trd corui IS of 80 d.iUlrrrt bc-"""n 5 and 16, Ulho sprnd most 0/ '11m ~ DII · ~ to cscq!." Jram d"",r fir nbusr and ,';1I1rntt. Thl." progromml' illdudrs lit,. creatiort of II /rimdly. Isnbcqr oj r a,. propll: calW .. mllll Community of mling ", lind Nucafioul SC'SJi0lU iIlStUlbJ,." mISt! oj vatews and rrspo"Slbiliry mto ,It" childrm. PROJEC ' S POLAND PLACE BJdsko-BiaZa ORGANISAnON P YOlO-PREVENTION ASSOCIATION ADDRESS ~partment in Bielsko-BiaZa · Plac.Fabryczny 1 · 43 00 Kinga TEl +48-33.125415 PROJECT NAME RESPONSl8LE PERSON OWINSIC.A-KLIMA 111,. assodntltm COIl4:t'lllJ'llks 011 5ocio-tltC'rapy for clrild~fI from problnn.ftmriJ.i OM tht /amlllC'S tltnrt.stlllr5. a ~II as yrogram~ of tuldkNon prru~rw". 11U' proj«t rtJ{ftls 10 cltiJdmJ b~ ., olld 15. togrrhrr WlrJr ,htil'/awrUfts tljfrr:tftl by alcoholism OM lIioltrter. TIlt proffGt1I1'4( UtvOIIIC'S "'"111"9 upporr group for parnlS, II crisis Itoskl u,lt" socio---,hnapnlti( ion.s. mr4 tht mabluh",mt of substitute /amilles W"r.TC' approprilllt. PLACE cracow ORGANISATION ADDRESS ul. Rozana 5 · 30 305 Cracow TEL +48-12.267 4900 or +48-12.267 7630 FA +48-12.267 0763 PROJECT NAME "New countmance - Saltrom 2000" RESP.ONSI8lE PERSON Youth Can' LMgUt Saltrrmt CDllffrJltIl with 'ht prt'1lt'fttio" oj drug adJilcticm, rrinlqratioll of Ihl! socia".11 ItIlJladjustcd. and ,Itt social and rrligiol/.S dtllriopmtlll of y"ulI9 praplt In grntrol. Tht prqJt'd rargm drihln:" ""d .VOlltlts III the Crocall' altd surrounding lIn'd.!'rom tltt 10-20 agC' group. who aFf' c:rpostd to drugs.arr hmnr/ru or n:lyill9 on sor:iJJI Smlrity. or an: from poor or dysfullction,,' fomiUts. Thr programmC' i"IIOI"6 the all"blishmtnr 0/ a Ct:lllrr for COUlIStlll!t9 and Rt--Sor:ioHsation for t«1UJgm. thC' opmltion of" day t:mhr providing 10tNi1l1lli t.rfrlJ-nmicular lIr:tillititS (inellUling a yaelu dllb), a magaziflt arul tI drama group. and a hOslC'I for street chihlmr. Tht tmdm -alms to octvpy the clrihlrrn's rime prodfICtivrly a"d j"l'mlSC' "'cir S(l('ial rollSciou iJlf: · while at the amt' time alltlliotl"9 problems of "nMmourlsltmf'"t and bruwUty. PRO E C S P 0 A ~ D PLAtE Zll!lll"1l Gora FAMILY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCI nON Plae Slawianski 6 · Budyn k C · 6'S 096 Zidona Gora Tel. +48-68.20 2205 PROJ Activltirs wIth Chlldren and Teenagers Provtd ng Sexual RESP lelf PERSON ZBIGNIEW IZDEBSln 'fIIto OffOniSaffon .Ims to tthlmk' .l1Oung FOPir ondJolflifics 011 'rcspolISiblC" er bnd pumathood, l1irth control and conlratrptlOJl,. 0_ to rrsrncl tlrt spmul ojseruall). tnJllSIrt.t1I:d I/ISI!GSU. [II rltt- Gtrnwn-PolJ.sh bonkrlmul 5nrmJl tuJrio iliu lire callflll up In prostitulItm as d'tgal tmplDynmtt. II! it is tam to find urll opportunlrf~ there. Tlct p"fjfCt -PJIds young prosritulr!s as wrI1 as tfnIIlgm Jrom local schools. 71t pNgmntmt' ..dwl", Inftinl rontact willi "'t lorgtts metffngs to dt:rJIonstrrlit 'hI! problem arul poss;blt solutJlltfS (IrJiIOll'I;Ig soeJaI UlOrlftrs, tftJ('hm, h('(dlh CO" sUUf nfJ. tI~/ia'iOfU ullth tM fiurtUio l?f Ihl" chr/ df'l'Jl, IIJJJI tr.vd,., 0/ volwucrr U/OT~, wlto 0" mostly snulmts oj tift Ptdngogy and Soc-iol Policy 1nsri/uk'. '17K' ~ttl IIfm$ Iq res"'fl till' IIlImbtr ufchild pro rfllllt.s lind igllffictrntly incretlSr the 1",·tI uf 1D ~ ad t'OmllUUtity rrspons.bility. PLACE' Gdansk TEL/fAX +4l8-56.349 4690 "Ant-hDl" Club f Social PR:vc:ntion ANNA DOLE KA 71tr 0 ni~ation is ilU'ullrtd in' httlUlt promonon, addu'/iun pm'nll.on, ('duration, (0Il/ls"lI;n9 and youth dtl't'/o;m('nt. . TIlt prfljrn ",rg!!lS dllidren and young proplt from rh(' poor'(' r a"d mo t prolt/rmalic families in tltt Oda - Wrz zc district. and airR.S to Itrlp tllem delltlop productive acti,'" t ,,, ,It('ir pa/'f! li1llt and impTO~ rhd m ,al and physical #tttlith. Thl' programmr i"clwlr rtgular sessions on srl/-h"lp, hralrlr and tdUdatiDf', indiVidual rhn'opy at tlrt YOllth rh('rap)' emtn'. U('urs;ons and camp PROJECT POL PlACE umochowa ORGANlSAnON :rHERAPElTfIC DAY CENTRE fOR CHILDR AND YOUTH HOUSE OF PRINCE MOHAR AS 0 nON ADDRESS AI. Wo)nosd 44 42 200 Custoc:hova TEL/FAX +48-34.324- 3256 PROJECT NAME tmsion of "thr HEl.P1!RS" prograaunr with regard to stm:t tbmapisB work TOMASZ Konow III The "Hauu o/~" Dpy ~~ /INIS ~a~ 011 t~ IHJ.sis of 'mIIJtOft~' stnrt ",,,,. IIffIt is ,t1CYIkII fft tI ft'lltmml hI flte mtln' 0/ Cznto MUla, wltm tit"" art IIfIl"Y/alllllies ~ /rollf IIMr11pleJ)'mtllt, ddfltqllftlC:Y ... IIlNlIolfsm. About 10 dulJlrr:ll agd betwmr 5 lind 11 Cllrrmt/y attetuJ tilt ~ aruilU projttt mIllS to .dOUble rids Iftmrftr. '11t P"'Ifdfffmt i1IChldes II dIII'y strM '$m';ce', tltr ~;mr oftlllif1GCtiPU#!f /gyrrr, tift InIJl "'11$;" IPOrtlhp,. " llDUJdtftpirr, ~/lrsr dr.) ill tII(' ~, an4 Ulimrr IUUl oSUJUm' etzmps. 6f1rJfluaily * Ito~ is to emir II "mumi of dlly Mltrrs jJl llW"~f pari of tJtr dly. «H~'" rogc,lfrr: PLACE Warsaw OfIGANISATION EDUCATION AND OOAL ANIMAl'ION SOCIETY. NP DISTRICT ADDRESS ul. GibaJakicgo BIt · 01 190 Warsaw TEL +48-228.632 7694 PROJECT NAME Education and Sodal Animation in an Opm EJavirorunen of the North Praga Oi trict RESPONSIBLE PERSON lRfNA CHMIIiL As it IIQIt ;"'pll('s, Iltu orgtlrrislltion jorusr OR the prtmlotiOtJ 0/ sodlJI allil cillic affillules among strftf rliUdml, au GddidioJl Fflnltitifl. TIre' ttugd group for tltri, P"d«1 Is "",*, 50 rhiUlmt fro. 'problem'j'atilies q/fmtII by a/eobli6rrr, fIJImtplDyftmu. tJimasr tutd 'IIrgl«l. Thr progra",me IfI"lrules stmmftr __ wirrtn Itdlftl4y ~s. llItnl· pnak trips. "ruI iftdlrifdNJ Ihnapy. tlnillIi",s to irrrpnwe ffttnptfSolllJl tOlflad$ ort4 lj-a1ftM " ..0119 tire C'lJildmt lIS IIftll os to /Gti/It4It thrir rr-intqrotioll ", ui$ting rdllt'JJtimlarul CflIr stelllS PLACE Warsaw POLISH P CHOLOGY ASSOCI-AllON ADDRnS uJ. K.aliska I m. 20.02 316 Wusaw T£l/fA)( +48-228.822 74 n ..Mrrting on a trttt" ANNA CIUrA This sod.Ulnr.pnnlld~ p.JymologWal ,ruinJ", for Ftlpl~ u.rmiill9 with chUdrm Gild ~rwgrrs. lind runs tmrll ('ourst'S lor '''e lann-. The prICIjn:1 ~ d,Udrr:n hangi", abo,,' ill IlmJS of pnwiruncm '" War3llw such os Trzedr qlla" aruI 1M tml Raiblray ,atlon. Ojtnl tht" dliJdmr tifT tltm! to esctlF problrnt at "amt lind foul ,MI'rr. lI"d C'rt I(drnlngs, ou' of !'Nell Of rhe' poUet. n~ r«T.in:r irrd to tducott th~t ddJdrm em Ihdr rightS IIIUI mill« 1M .frtq,,~cy of UlltltImu mulling in Ihf .C'.sdIpt" lind upwitatfon. It i"uo/~ tralllhtg IIOhmtttrS ro 'P"""" rhe OIWJ$ ('O"rmrrd. pm1UJI/i tilt' cWld~ft fO IIItmd «ntres for discussiofl and 11CtfJ!ttk's. mill cratift9 II bra"hu" on tit", rlglsts. PLACE Warsaw SOOAL POUNDATION OF POwtSLE IN W W ul. Molkolowslla 55 00 542 Wmaw Tel .-48-228. 625 1922 PsydtoJogitaJ Prevmdon Projert hi IMal AJU - Crisis Caft Cmtte ANNA ORZliCHOW KA TM IUI4IKm /Onls on trro""ml tIIUI SDd41 fTlitlbiUtodon bf yo"n9 IWOple with probkm · allll lite tal" rll. Tht JPffi«t is _1ftI in "" IIrtG oj abolll 50,000 inhabilllJllJ> ('Olflll;lIf"lI areas of t'.J1Il'ft1~ poIItrIy IIn4 Puultifiuut ,,;. C(JndllioftS. It is almd lit "'dl4t~ JlDlltIu and famil'r5 tltrr.tl~d by 4nrtOTGlisalio", crUflll pd l114icfion, aJld j,uoolvc thC' nraliOJl of II Crisis Hosl'd IIIh~ 1S 0' 20 dlildmr II' II tfmt CllII suty /tr a jtfII fir t'lftn """,,Irs Ulhllt ,ht: problrms In thd, fam,ly (co'!ftirts, vlDlmC'r, IlkohoUJ", trr) II,.. Iv~j. wi Iht "rip oJ rhmptsts. TIlt ptOgTIU8IJIt twles Jirul..ing and rqll,pplttg II 'oclltion for drt' Hos/rl. rrcruitmmt alld traiJllng of st· .u. and i tmf llitruPlNtit wm with tltt /omit/es - resulting in a rrdurnon of rhe numbtT of C'hildrrtl ~r to ~ atory ~ool$, arullln impromnml ofJnmily tit's and tduC'atitnUll ~U.s. PRO J E TS POL A D PLACE W:jhcrowo ORGANISATION FRIEND OP FAMILY A AOOR£5S ul. DwoTtowa 12.84"200 Wejherowo m +43-58.672 4591 PROJECT NAME: Dirty Yards - Psychological and ducational Support for chUdren and Youth. ll1cir Families and Educators in Wc;jherowo RESPONSIBLE PERSON ZOFIA Ku TERSKA This orga,,; 41iOlI "'Q""flt a d"y Crnln." for ~1n."('1 ('hlldn."" praJlId.n9 Munttion,d and p ycholDg,ntl "tip. IlIId a rparatt C'I.'IIfJT (or preu('ntion and solulions Of alroltol-rtlaled ptoblntlS. /I Us shown poslt;rtt results .sincr It opnttD i" 1992. Th(' larget group for tht projtCI is ab"ut 300 rhlldral oj whom 0""" haU rrquirt sprdlJl cart, and ma,,), hal't' dnlg or almhol prob/('ms" Tir,. programm(' in.'OIl'('!r wtdly 6 iOll5 oJ ODt' hour",. mon." on 'h~ dtllt'lop mmt pf cultural ;nt~m plrjsicaJ education find sportl. tht' family uwit ,mil p Itologiclll tdurarlon ro in~C'a sntriti.rit)' ro "lationship , probltn.-sot, /ng and odal rrsponsibfllty. PLA E tarachowice ORGANISATION TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION -HEALTHY SCROOL~ ADDRESS ul.Kun tyfu~i 3 Maja 15 · 27 200 Starachowi« m +48-47.274 8056 FAX +48-47.274 7478 PROJECT NAME "Stret't Children" RE PONSIIlLE PERSON GRAlYNA JABLON A Th~ organisation Jocu.~t: on rtainlng oJt('llC'h~rs. runn;/lg spa~timC' arNutriC' for chUdrtn/lttnagns d (witll dav c('ntrrs, camp ric). and pra/li, in9 psyrhologiC'at <"on ultlltion. Thr projrcI i"l'Oll'~ two sp«(fi<" arras, Poludni(" and OrlOUIO, orig;nally dn~'oFj/ to "oust' ulorlrns III "It S,ar ar plant bifrm It Jdl on hard timrs. TIl" main problnru among cltltdfTn and rttlfDgns In tilt'. (' alT1J5 an." alrohollSm. petty flU!ft aHd physical l,jol(,If(,(,. Thr team lncl.lltt·s 4 NiuC'(ltor!' aiming IU C' fablisll ('.O'('c1l, C' contact u'itll groups oj tn:cf cllildrtn. and to ' pmuad(' II,em ftJ jQ;II rhr progromm~ and Iram to 1LlI(, thrir sparr time molt' iHttlt'slillgly. Efforts arr also ptannl!d ro gain rh~ ro-opt'rDtlon of pafTn . and fh~ "Pport oj local coml'Jlunflies fa $1.'\"IIf'e rht u C' oj dllY l.'C'ntn' and playgroullds. PRO R 0 Budtar N PHIUP'S HOUS Str. Petre TWlSU nr 9 · sector 5 · Buchamt TEl/FAX +40-1.423 28 80 E~MAll phillip@dial. ppa.tD "The Right to l.cam" 18ll PEISON OVIDItI FIUPESCU ·Cl7lltbJul- Phil FouMatioll 0PmJ'(!$ irr tile poor Fc-rntari ,,~a ..·Ir~ ilia", p"rt'fttJ do rlDt Iunre eIfOIIglt moll to IfI4lntain thflr rhliJJrt'n at dool. TII~ projec1 ai,to ensure fm: GCCess for "bout 10 st'I'ttl hi/4"", ro somt' ftmff of eltoon",. alld 10 provide Pltal I )11 po tiM (ou.uelling to poor prmlllS tt! st:rtt'1 dt/Id/'rIL 11 in va ~rotlort (1M I~tion of 'prqb/nrt' /llmilics. PTr]lsriIfM ",porr pIaNlJrrr"ftlrlt cmld. CO"tJiIorotlOfl w Ii ,lte local school No. 148 for inc'u ion of ,lte. cltildml in cliw6, alld 1Iftr:r'-~ltool ctur in Fou/ldori", 's sociAl $t7J'iff ttfttrt'. fo, "o~ 'llul n:trrfJriolf#l drtivitla. TIlt' oundlilion colfllbomtn witlt rlfC' "Coso Deschisa" Ass«iatiOll tntd,1r "Robin Hood" platt'fftOtl tt'Ur~. PLACf Buchilrest FAMILY AND CHILD PROTECTION FOUNDATIO Str. ~ri Ie Ghtotghlu nr 15. or 5 BuchaJ'r$t TEl +40-1.3 6 6 53 FAX .....0-1.]37 48 63 £ MAIL foc@dialkappa.ro HoWE Rrintegration of trftl chi1dm1 RES SIBl! PEflSON CAT LI GANEA Tht' undatiD plaru tD atablc " II P",,,,Ulftnl sC',,,irC' waning to prtUf.1t Sf'"' duldtr1l /ram obaNlDning ('ho and to pnwidC' condition Jar ocial mntt'g1Qtiorl in til family. ('11001 and warlt. Tilt proj"t'l 10~lS -rlTC'1 dlildrt'rt b"twml 9 and 16. «'ho hUI'!! nOI lit" rompltld.... nlt'rtd lIlt' linb u.'.irh their ami/Yo T1rr progrom",c includes ('onlarllng rllildtr1l in difficulty, f1l(Jiuation qffamily P'l"SOUm'S. t' lab hm"", oJ an ind,viduall$C'd mtmtt'ntlo" pia" lC'oding 10 a 'sonol ~ntTlJ " u,ltli tht bnu:/iciarirs. and ouragrnfnlt of "'Ort' autonomy. S(,hool ~ults will b" orrtiltuously monitol1!d 0,,,1 disC'ussttd wi,lr ~o('h hild "",h a I'it'll' 10 o"hlt'l1lng full rtilltt'granon, PROJECTS R. O M A I A PLACE Bucharest ORGANISATION mE OPEN HOUSE ADDRESS TEL/fAX +40-1.332 20 00 E-MAtl casadesc@dial.koppa.ro PROJECT NAME Big-Bm:eni RESPONStBLE PERSON CLAUDIA LUCA The' orgmrtslllio" 4lmuly",n tilt "Casa lksc:hjsa" Day Ct'nrrr tatgt'/ing hUrtmr llIitltin 1M 8-18 tl{It' group. Tltt projtt:lluas two IJSpttt.s: apport Jor ronti1lurd activities in flri doy-ttrltrr, tJnd a IsrQn~ to otll" insti hltioru i.mtsItd ill rna"" lting dAy mJtl'a Jor SIrN't ('hildrr.lI. It obj«tiv(> is ~paf'UI/O" for OC'iul. fom;lv tutd muctUionaJ mnttgnltioll, and amsfancr to c:hildrm p"'red in wnhJtiorts .",til rrinl~rutio" IS ac:llitRd. '17k proJf'U"''''~ ilWOWes cdutationol gamn and rtspoM billty-build'ng wsJrs In ,ht tIII.v rnurr. and mOt'tlI suppart jor r:mltlrrn who Iuwr kft ,Itt rrnlrr It, Jamil. ('haul or IlIOrl! ituMions. To lJSSisf oth"r'illtm'Strd llUifhltions, prirJItrI malmm (1If tilt mdlJods aJUl techniques of Casa D~r:hIsa are plsnntd to Ix> productd tutd dl.ssnrU1IlIttd. IJJ art merting! for br/ormatfoll r.rd,allgf'. TlrC! Optn HOUlt rolJaboral with srlfnal rrorr-g01'f'rnmental in tatutiorrs as "'tII as 'Iff' 1000ai Policr Dqltrtmmt turd Dql for Crlmf' Prr''f'nNon. PLACE Bu bartSt ORGANISATION SUPPORT FOR THE SOOAL INTEGRATION ASSOOATION-ASIS ADDRESS Calea Calaralillor Dr 4. BI. 105 A c.4. el.1. Bp.94 TEL/FAX +40-1.323 3855 E-MAtlssis@diat.kappa.ro · PROJECT NAME Cultural support for th social integration of unckrprivikdgrd t~m and youth RESPONSIBLE PERSON RODICA OR GORIAN AS1S Iuu m:tJJtly r tablisbrd IJ rt'Sidnrtial rrnm to pro'lidr ,11(' opportunity Jor sOC'W1 mlllf'gratiolJ for di tIlIttomagrd JIOIl,It. 'llr project alms to tIISInr II roJrid.'/uU and table socio-prqfrssiorrQI rrillltgration for at Ittut 20 dWulvlJII fIIgftIlmttIg(f$. witlt priority giml to boYS. wIlD famr Ihe majority of rho (' In tilt strttl tnUl art nmsidrred 10 be morr tt1pt1~ ofsvsllJi.dn, a fomjly lorn; Tltt approach tutti is II Jtrp~.'1 stq 1ftC1l1od, from obSmoatiOIl to c:orrL'f'TSalion. rolr-playlng. grallp dlsnlSSioru and progresiVt dtkgation qf authority. ~ ultillu.lle obJrc'til't is to IIdp 20 IffIUJgm C'l'f'1)' )'Nr in rJJ sway. FI'fI".dai SIlpporro"as bmr prumisd 11)1 sm:raI orgorrisatiarrs induding Cltild Can- Rommtill-UK and Child Hapt UK. s KIA PLACE Nib'a - Stitlirc: LONA» Fabryho 5 · 951 50 Nitta m +421-87.65190 MOBIIX pHONE +42)-903.506 296 FAX 42J-87.6S00 ChiJdren in Crisis Q litre RESP SllIlE PERSON MARIA A KOvAcovA/VIOLA DROmOY SLONAD ( Iol''''' Ch,lJrt'fI IlopeJ IVa farmrd 'If 1994 to he'p IItgl«kd IIIJtl obusrd r'lilJme. WlDi,", thruuglr ChII"",1I Tdephonr Lint' of Saillatioll (a,Off 180 (,IIUs a do la"d a Odlilrrn Crisis tIItrt' i,. Bans By.mira Thr oj of rIIr projrcl is la Opt'ft and rvll II msls crntl'l' UI Nilra wit" II spraallst IrlUfl of 0 psydJoIrIgist. odDIlIIOrkc!F, dactor. pt)IiMffan to counsd 'Ire r:hUdrrn. 1f1lf1itl rtptatN dlImagt arid prtptlrt rh~ for rttu", wh~ '0 01 Mil benrr family lifo Slrrping a«otirHKIdttrlofl is pltl""¢G for up to 12 chllllrrn tnUI frqftQry, their muthus. PLAC£ Ziar ~d Bronom. Levice, Stary Tekov, pis ka NlJVa Ves SCHOOL WIDE OPEN Moysesa 12 · 965 0] Ziar nad Hronom TEL +421-857.6723' 7 or +421-857 67164.53 fAX +421-851.6723137 [-MAIL nsd@bb.tdccom sit -Let start together" VINCENT CUVEN I JOZ!f BREZOVSlY T1te to dewlop rhildrtn's putnlrial. The ('IIm'rIl ,rojctlllilV to hrlp inttgralt strtrl chUdmI in,o tlttformal dlool J1StmI. 01 to,/onrl MDtItI rrnrm Jar ,.,"n ring theiT ",al nrtds and prwiding approprlatt stimuli,IM dn>tlop",tttt. Two grofq15 ~ involved: 5-6 utilifllnnt their start I" pri1ftll1')' rhool, introduction to mming/writ,"g/matlts tIc, plus variolU Q rit:f ~ · painting...1 · 6~ t rrlntr:grtJllng info "r~ school syst~". through tutflMg support growp. C'Ullll5tJling for tJiblidioJJ ~ntio", Itnil regular C'U"sultations with PlJrtnlJ. PROJE SLOVA PLACE Roznava Region ORGANISAnON SALESIAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION - ROZNAVA ADDRESS Zefruuonlc: saJttians)(~ mladeze · Nam ti banfkov 30.048 01 Roznava TIl +421-942.215 18 or +4'21 ~903.613 850 £·MAll inc:mtrunl@milil.pvt. It PROJECT NAME Creation of crisis ntrc for street children RESPONS18U PERSONS MAtlA FAoIANovA/lVAN TRUNKO The urganiJatioJl hos lI10riIN II1fth s~r dlild~n for 6 .\'t'MS prolliding aft~r- chool aNhritie and lI",meT ramp whid! oho currr for hallditllp,w4 childrrn. Th J17U;erl to'gel5 a IOttll oj 67 ht'et rhildrrn .from thl" RozIUI'IQ region. mostly from tltt C'IIdllngerrd housing ~tQtr JlJ}l, '4/fmrtg from '''e c:/frrl of""emp!O,V1fU!lIt. addictitnu alUl ncB'ret by tllf' pornlls. It Irr"o/~ Ihe ~NO" aruI equipping of a rui5 «'IIlrr "'ht'IT thesr clrtldmr oms mrtlfnr NJulISdUrrg o"d prodlU'til'e ortivitirs. and also rontorl with the part'Jlts 10 lromOlr 'I('oll"i~fomill~. P~CE Bardc:iov ORGANISATION SALE IAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION - DOM ADDRESS KeUerova 7 · 08501 Baniejuv TEL +421-935.727 401 FAX +421·935.722678 E-MAIL mikam_97@yahoo.C'om PROJECT NAME Hdp for bUt dtDdrm RESPONSIBLE PERSON INa. MaR.PETER BESENYEI Thr Youth AsSot';OflOIi targets mainly RomllJlY c:hildn-n who do not (,ttMld rltllol. bur 01 II VOling coup/~. rrtamtd and unmorTied. who orr unmlployrd. A youth centn' is alrrady uP",oflrt9 III the vlllagr of Postdrka whr'rt" il pTOrrtOI~ rhr dtl'tlopmenr ofyoung ~opll! anti prol1des thmr uIIII, tdllrOlion. PlACE Radosina QUEEN OF PEAC COMMUNITY P~Canska 11/18 maaor house. 956 05 RadosJna TEl(FAX +421--815.981 02 PROJ NAMf Bridges MG!t. BRANKO Tun Tht lHfallisarimc provides basic. "cords such tJ5 food 1Kt'Oltfmodluio", htoillt Nft' IU wcoll tJ5 SOtlit' niUnlliollal "rlp to boys who Itaflg aroWtd the strms Jor-lac"- oJ./aMfly smmrp UT stllb,Hty. 11Ie P '.irrl IIlrg a ,olal of 18 boys agtd bttwml 18 aJUJ 22, aJI»/tD", 18 aft' lucal"d hi "'" htsIitunoll 'F.am a/Good Rapt", ""d wh~ po ,bit', ,hd, poft'"ts. TlrC' prvgra"""" ;n"olut'S cOllrrsrlllng od cariagjor bO}' WiD /tD~ oftm ~ft rrform drools tljter comp ory tdllc:lltian. and htlping tht". find uitllblt t'tftplayntnlt. PLACE Bratislava CIVIC ASSOCIATION PJUMA Bagarova 22 · 841 01 8ratisla a ~2'-7.5333 249 E-M.AIL monilut.dutti@rad.pha~.llk PROlE NAM£ for hidden population or dnag users IBIE PERSON PRlMIt, U IIIIn-:lOIJrrn",mtal and nOI-for-profil orgaJJi$Drionfo""r/l In July 1998. plans to opnt and op~' t1tt'Jlrst Ptstitution (n Slol1olrlo con~ntratf"g all th" hlJdf'JI population oj drug addin . . Thr trr' IUill GJlm dail. from lOam '0 IOpm and pNwidt~oll$vlla,,('y OIJ legal. ht4llh Dnd sodD psy"" ogicril ".C1m. information an ,Itt' ri ls of drug addictIon Dnd ho", to aUn'ialC' th"III. pfus basiC' "ealtlt ·Im.",fooflcmd I,jramin smlln', and n«dlt/inj«,ion C'1JD1Ig('s. Baaska 8ystrica ORGANISATION HOPE F.OR CHILDREN ADORESS P.O. Box J2 · 974 11 BaDSi4 8)"StriCa Tn +421-88.411 06 98 FAX +421;.a8·.tlJ 60 39 PltOJEcr NAME CbIIdml in streets RfSPONSIBLE PERSON STEFAN NATHER n~ O"""i$oIfOIl nm.s ~(Jt" tletiult~,for ddldtm durjltg tftco ScIeoOi ~ ..." tJ/~ ltolillD)l$. It ~$ 011 socilll1y ~ ftmtilin ..m"ly qf Ro",o,,>, origin hi tift IIIOIr sptrf/ft! I'lngn !Pf'Mp is 15 cJrilllrm oj II""",, 17 do lIor tlntJId sclIOfJI til aU alld 4 anrntllmgulart, ThC' progruMmr I~ ml' pilla,., of tltt!SC' driltlrrll nuo 0 dlUly crisis ~ oa ~ wbC'Te tltty will m.'ftl1r Itdp whit muliJl, flUltk$ ~Ir. as wril as coalUC'Ui",. OJI Ir,ygitM orul dtnfltStk "oblms. '0 Ml'ftings /IIHh rhtir yrmtf' lPiU IJIso lH! "",,_ tDgC't"u /IIltII ,.. PJ1dtolDflst cfian&ss topics ~It as Iltl' cltil4 "fill elrool. PlACE ORBANISATION CHARITY Of ARCHDIOCESE OSICE Ttl +421-95.143983 FAX +421-95.743 901 E-MAil adch-b@dodo.sk 'ROJEcr NAME RESPONSIBlE PERSON MOR.ING.JAN JI!LINElC nt MtlriI) nnrs II networt qf am sm1Icr ad social mttrtsfor yGIlftf propk. tlt.r ddm,s '''.~ d~ ,toplt. TIir prop targrB slrM tltil4mt ". tlrl' C'7f4llagrml1unIshtg rstlrtr G/T#I1tartOPtt. l11li""" to "oflfdt · crisIS murt ~ ~ (for ... . , tad]. MltilH6Yt1lo1oJkal etl""","" ~ tdivitits for dtll4m 0/all , . Tlrt prag","''''" illlIOI1!ef tift Cmmolf 0/p«r grollpS tnId tutor grrJUPS jbr edlU'lttfonal, tulhmrl a4 SJIfftfUtJI ,"efT 4U'tiIlitin ,,1Id IfItttIngs.. It IlUo , . 10 null' /I duh jor YllIUfIIf1 Iciltfmt to ltdp tht school ~"'. 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