Watoto wa mitaani

Watoto wakilala katika Mulberry Street, New York City, 1890.

Watoto wa mitaani huko Kabul, Afghanistan.

Watoto wa mitaani ni watoto ambao wamekosa makazi bora, malazi na mavazi kutoka kwa wazazi au walezi wao. Jambo hilo limesababisha kutokuwa na mahali maalumu pa kuishi.

Idadi yao duniani hukadiriwa kuwa milioni mia moja hivi.

Sababu

Kuwa mtoto wa mitaani husababishwa na ugomvi wa wazazi ambao hatimaye hutengana; hapo mtoto hukosa haki na mahitaji yake ya msingi. Mtoto huona bora akaishi mtaani ili aweze kufanya japo kazi ndogo aweze kupata mahitaji yake.

Pengine hutokana na vifo vya wazazi wote wawili, ambapo baadhi yao hutengwa na ndugu na kukosa mahali pa kwenda.

Kuna wakati watoto hao hukosa chakula, hivyo huona bora aibe ili apate kula. Wengine huingia kwenye makundi ya uuzaji wa madawa ya kulevya na ujambazi.

Majukumu

Jamii inatakiwa ichukue jukumu la kuwasaidia watoto haO ili kuwaepusha na mambo hayo. Sisi sote kama jamii tunatakiwa tuliangalie suala hilo kwa umakini kwa usaidizi wa serikali; jukumu hili ni la kila mtu.

Ingawa serikali nyingine zimetekeleza mipango ya kukabiliana na matatizo ya watoto wa mitaani, mpaka sasa suluhisho la jumla linahusisha kuwaweka katika makazi ya mayatima, nyumba za vijana, au taasisi za marekebisho.

Huko Kolombia, serikali imejaribu kutekeleza mipango ya kuweka watoto hawa katika nyumba zinazoendeshwa na serikali, lakini jitihada hizo zimeshindwa kwa kiasi kikubwa, na watoto wa mitaani wamekuwa kundi la watu walioathiriwa na ukatili wa Polisi na Usalama wa Taifa, kwa sababu, wanadhani ni watumiaji wa madawa ya kulevya na wahalifu.

Katika Australia, majibu ya msingi kwa wasio na makazi ni Programu ya Usaidizi wa Makazi ya Usaidizi (SAAP). Mpango huo ni mdogo kwa ufanisi wake. Inakadiriwa moja kati ya vijana wawili ambao wanatafuta kitanda kutoka SAAP hugeuzwa kwa sababu huduma zimejaa.

Jitihada za kufaa zaidi zimefanywa na serikali mbalimbali kusaidia au kushirikiana na mashirika yasiyo ya serikali.

Marejeo

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• Boswell, John (1988). The Kindness of Strangers: the Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226067124. 
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• Cottrell-Boyce, Joe (2010). "The role of solvents in the lives of Kenyan street children: an ethnographic perspective" (PDF). African Journal of Drug and Alcohol Studies 9 (2): 93–102. doi:10.4314/ajdas.v9i2.64142. Ilihifadhi kwenye nyaraka kutoka chanzo mnamo 2016-04-20. Iliwekwa mnamo 2017-07-16. 
• Ennew, Judith; Milne, Brian (1990). The Next Generation: Lives of Third World Children. Philadelphia, PA: New Society. 
• Flowers, R. Barri (2010). Street Kids: the Lives of Runaway and Thrownaway Teens. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 9780786456635. 
• Green, Duncan (1998). Hidden Lives: Voices of Children in Latin America and the Caribbean. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780304336883. 
• Hecht, Thomas (1998). At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521598699. 
• Kirk, Robin (1994). "Bogotá". Katika Cynthia Arnson. Generation Under Fire: Children and Violence in Colombia. Human Rights Watch. ISBN 9781564321442. 
• Scanlon, Thomas J.; Tomkins, Andrew; Lynch, Margaret A.; Scanlon, Francesca (1998). "Street children in Latin America". British Medical Journal 316 (7144): 1596–1600. PMC 1113205. PMID 9596604. doi:10.1136/bmj.316.7144.1596. 
• Verma, Suman; Saraswathi, T. S. (2002). "Adolescence in India: street urchins or Silicon Valley millionaires?". Katika B. Bradford Brown; Reed W. Larson; T. S. Saraswathi. The World's Youth: Adolescence in Eight Regions of the Globe. Cambridge University Press. ku. 105–140. ISBN 9780521809108. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511613814.005. 

Viungo vya nje

Wikimedia Commons ina media kuhusu:

Watoto wa mitaani

• Street Child: is a UK charity, that aims to create educational opportunity for some of the most vulnerable children in West Africa.
• The Hope Foundation: Offering protection, education and healthcare to street children in Kolkata, India
• Street Children in Gimbi, Ethiopia, including documentary of a specific boy
• Streetconnect.org Archived 20 Aprili 2010 at the Wayback Machine.: A clearing house of information for and about homeless youth
• Hummingbird: a documentary about two NGOs in Brazil that work with street kids
• The Goodman Project Archived 19 Juni 2017 at the Wayback Machine.: A foundation set up to help the street kids in India and Asia
• Street Children: Article on the Children's Rights Portal
• Street Children's Day - 31 January (in German): Day to highlight the situation of these children and young people.