26 November, It's the day of the children of the streets #MyMadagascar #MahajangaMaVille
26 November, It's the day of the street children.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the rights of the child, which was signed in 1989, UNESCO organizes each 26 November the street children day.
Many associations fight for street children, whether in Latin America, in Asia or in Madagascar, whether or not they are denominational. Their action in the field makes it possible to carry out real painstaking work in favor of children., of their education, of their safety, sometimes going as far as a real revival of social and family ties.
Madagascar, the Father Pedro Founder of Akamasoa, is known for his fight against poverty.
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The AKAMASOA Humanitarian Association was created in 1989 to help the poor people of Antananarivo, who lived on the Andralanitra landfill and in the streets of the capital. His goal was to get these people out of inhuman places where they lived, so that they lead a human life in dignity
The white smoke rising from the heights of Antananarivo intrigues him. In May 1989, he then goes with young seminarians to the hills. He discovers there women, men and children wandering in the dump of the capital, among dogs and pigs, waiting for the dumpsters to dump the waste. It will take him six months of long discussions, to convince these families, living among garbage, to fight for a better future for their children. He will succeed in convincing 70 families to leave the dump to create a new village on a rocky land at 7 km from the city, made available by the authorities.
In December 1989, before Christmas, Father Pedro founds with his Malagasy friends an association whose name in Malagasy Akamasoa means "good friends", to be precise "reliable and sincere friends".
Its objectives are to restore human dignity to the poorest populations, from the street, thanks to decent housing that they help to build, compulsory schooling of children and paid work.
Today, After 27 years of fighting, Association AKAMASOA came to the aid of 500.000 Malagasy. 4.000 houses were built, and 25.000 people live in our villages. Each of these villages has schools, a dispensary and workplaces for adults : career, masonry, carpentry, Agriculture, crafts. 14.000 children are educated in our schools. And in 2004, the association has been recognized as a public utility by the State, which endorses the need for its presence and action in the general social functioning of the Island. AKAMASOA is proud of its achievements, but AKAMASOA also knows that it is impossible to rest on the achievements. The struggle is daily, that it concerns the problems of each of the villages, or the poor people who continue to come asking for help from AKAMASOA, and that the Reception Center has listed among the number of 43 487 people for the year 2016, who received temporary emergency assistance : meals, clothes, cover, Savon.
For the millions of children around the world living on the streets, education is the most effective way to reintegrate into society. UNESCO's work in this area has a dual purpose, on the one hand, develop basic education for street children and other, preventing difficulties to prevent children from ending up on the street. Activities focus on : (i) raising awareness of the general public on the issue of street children and the non-application of the rights to education for all ; (II) providing technical support to organizations and institutions to meet the basic needs of these children ; (III) strengthening public-private partnerships at national and international level to ensure sustained and effective action.
The United Nations estimates that 150 million the number of children defined as street children. The causes can be multiple : Violence, dope, alcoholism, death of a relative, family blast, armed conflict, natural disaster or simple socio-economic collapse. But the result is the same : these young people find themselves forced to make a living on the streets, rummaging through trash cans, Beggar, selling on the street in poor neighborhoods and polluted cities in the developing world.
It is now recognized that the phenomenon of street children is not a consequence of poverty alone. It is more a sum of different phenomena that can explain it. When it comes to responding through actions to operational needs, the following causes are commonly advanced : • rapid and poorly controlled urbanization ; • the population explosion ; • family disintegration ; • unemployment and insufficient income ; • the deficiency of the educational and social systems • the inadequacy of the formal education systems leading to failures, school dropout or rejection ; • the inadequacy or lack of institutions for caring for children who have dropped out of school, etc.
What are their needs ? Like everyone else, street children need to be housed, fed, cared for, Protected, socialized and educated, to have vocational training. They need all the favorable conditions for their education. who comes to their aid ? people of good will, religious or secular institutions, Non-Governmental Organizations, ministerial departments, the United Nations system (UNESCO, UNICEF, BIT, WHO, UNAIDS etc.) try to provide for the needs of these children. According to their motives, interventions take the form of advocacy, survival projects based on a preventive or curative approach to the problem, rehabilitation, education, legislation or repression. These different actors often encounter difficulties due to the limited knowledge of the phenomenon., to its denial by certain governments, lack of qualified personnel, the dispersion of efforts and the insufficiency of resources. UNESCO, through its Education Program for Children in Difficult Situations, street children, gives them hope through education.
