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PHILIPPINES - THE STREET CHILDREN
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Every morning, in the streets of Manila, little faces appear between two cars, alongside the pavement, waking up from a night spent on the streets.
Every day is a new fight to survive.
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Program details
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| Purpose: To ensure assistance for street children in the Philippines
Beneficiaries: Street children, young mothers, disabled children and young adults, families victims of toxic waste in Pampanga.
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Budget for 2011 : 240 000 Euros
Partner : Virlanie Foundation
Period: 10 annual programs
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Context
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Around 500 000 children and teenagers live currently in the streets of Manila. They have no access to education, healthcare or appropriate diet.
Some of them manage to survive day after day, living from casual jobs. Some others find their way out through street gangs.
Frameless, with no reference, their only way of life is to try to survive among the drifts of the streets: drugs, deliquency, prostitution.
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Objective
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In order to become self-sufficient and responsible adults, these children have to get out of the streets universe and learn again how to live in society. Above all, they need to be secured, listened and loved.
AMADE is proud to support the work of the Virlanie Foundation in the Philippines. For many years, Virlanie's social workers strive to provide the children with the love and support they need so much. AMADE funds all or part of ten programs of Virlanie: residential, outreach or support programs.
Below are the major programs in stake.
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Programs & achievements
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Objective: To take in young mothers aged 15 to 20 years old, abandoned by their family - To teach them the basis of education and social life, and prepare them to live on their own. Whenever possible, the priority remains to reunify them with their family.
Beneficiaries in 2011: 86 young mothers and their babies
Objective: To serve children and families forced to live and / or to work in the streets - To bring them a medical, social and legal assistance - To help them out of the streets and become self-sufficient. The Center is a day shelter where to find food, hygiene and comfort.
Beneficiaries in 2011: 122 children and their family
Objective: To bring assistance to children and young adults suffering from physical or mental disabilities - To guide the most independant beneficiaries toward an income-generating job.
Beneficiaries in 2011: 32 children and young adults
- Children's legal rights office
Objective: To provide a legal assistance to children and teenagers in conflic with the law - To ensure the defense of their essential rights
Beneficiaries in 2011: 102 children and young adults
Objective: To organize creative and artistical sessions for street children - To help them developping their artistical potential
Beneficiaries in 2011: 221 children
Objective: Assistance to the families and children victims of toxic waste abandoned by the US army. Living close to the contamined zones, these children are suffering from serious disorders and handicaps.
Beneficiaries in 2011: 30 children
Objective: Temporary shelter - 3 to 6 months - for children left alone or children with legal issues - The Center is Organized on the basis of the Flipino family to readapt the children to social life and if possible to help them get back to their family.
Beneficiaries in 2011: 62 children
Objective: To ensure the future independence of the young adults formerly helped by the residential programs.
Beneficiaries in 2011: 58
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