Volunteer Participation in Working with the Urban Poor (UNDP - UNV, 64 p.): II. Insights derived from community-based programmes: Children of the street

Volunteer Participation in Working with the Urban Poor (UNDP - UNV, 64 p.)

II. Insights derived from community-based programmes

		(introduction...)
		Urban informal sector
		Low-income housing
		Infrastructure and basic services
		Health and HIV/AIDS prevention
		Non-formal education and functional literacy
		Women, gender and development
		Children of the street
		Implications for VSAs

Children of the street

There also remains enormous scope to work with street children in addressing their needs and concerns. Albeit resource-constrained, numerous local NGOs, especially in the Central and South American regions, have already done much work in this area. In one project, for example, an NGO is training children to perform Primary Health Care work in low-income communities in Bombay. UNICEF and UNESCO, with specialised NGOs, are developing joint programmes for urban disadvantaged children in Africa. UNV has also started its own programme to work with street children in Central America, where VDWs will work closely with NGOs and other UN agencies to design projects to meet the inter-related concerns of these children: vocational training and income-generation; non-formal education: healthcare and HIV/AIDS prevention; prevention and treatment of drug abuse: and the special concerns of street girls.