Resilience and the Re-integration of Street Children and Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa by Walters Mudoh Sanji

Resilience and the Re-integration of Street Children and Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa by Walters Mudoh Sanji

Author:Walters Mudoh Sanji
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811320743
Publisher: Springer Singapore


3.4 NGOs, Churches, and Government

Much has been done already to enhance the eradication of this phenomenon despite its stubborn nature. Government efforts include the Ministry of Social Affairs and Belgian Red Cross that engaged in a project on the socioeconomic reintegration of street children in Yaoundé. This project interacted with nearly 15,000 children and could rehabilitate 480 of them. The Cameroon Ministry of Social Affairs, “program for the socio-professional integration of street children in the cities of Douala and Yaoundé registered 435 street children, of which 119 were returned to their families and 62 reintegrated in school” (Cameroon Concord, 2014, “Cameroon Government officials,” para. 14). In another report in the Cameroon Concord (2014), “for the fifteen years, charity organizations especially church groups have succeeded in returning at least 5000 street children and youth to their original families. Between 500 and 600 in Douala alone have been trained in various trades and accommodation has been found for about 170 of them who have since quit the streets” (“Cameroon Government officials,” para. 12).



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