TOGETHER AGAINST NEGLECT…SAVE THE STREET CHILDREN

Write: Philippe Youssef

Eating, sleeping, and working in the streets. Children are overwhelmed by harsh circumstances which led to being in such a cold miserable, and nightmarish place for everybody ...the streets. The roads transform them from innocent creatures to ruthless and horrible demons that subconsciously turn them into a big wolf pack that may destroy others or even themselves.

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Since the 1980s, the media reveal a crisis that hit Egypt which is homeless children... Luckily, some of these children were rescued by non-governmental organizations and many not-for-profit entities that pick them up and Help to reshape and recalibrate their manner and their future. They Achieve this by providing accommodation, food, and healthcare.

many non-profit organizations have responded to the call and began to provide the basic services for these homeless children. SamuSocial was one of the NGOs that answered the call. SamuSocial was founded in

France in 1993 and established in Egypt in

2008 it delivers quality services to these poor souls... Victims of the unfortunate. SamuSocial has chosen a specific way to apply its agenda; as it doesn’t focus on providing nutrition and clothes for

children as any NGO does, but it is a medical based and artistic

Discovery organization where offers medical and psychosocial aid for these little unlucky ones, this what differentiates this organization from any other one.

the Egyptian MOSS (ministry of social solidarity) and MOH (ministry of health) has a collaboration with SSI (SamuSocial international) related to Training moss and moh staff in return for issuing permits and facilitating Administrative procedures. Moreover, to achieve its agenda, SSI uses an uncommon tool which is the mobile units. These mini vans that carries medical and psychosocial personnel. They spread out in targeted areas that became familiar to the children these vehicles provide medicine a

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nd sometimes clothes. At first, it wasn’t easy for SSI to work, as the locals do not accept them and accusing them of organ trafficking and kidnapping. Soon enough the people started to know about SamuSocial and began to

collaborate by sending many homeless children to receive Medical consultations. By consequence, it became the only foreign entity that Collaborates with the Egyptian government to deal with such a crisis.

The main reason of this phenomenon that was nominated by many entities is the divorce of parents and the dissolution of the Family itself. So, the children have no solution than to be left in the Cold, miserable streets. Living on theft, this is the life of about 3 Million children

“independent 2011”. Now, we are watching the third generation of these homeless children. They were reproduced by rape and sexual assault with no official record of their existence, neglected by the society and out of the government’s scope for almost 3 Decades. Now the question will this poor miserable souls will

Finally have peace and security, instead of being exposed to drugs and smoke and being found dead lying in the railways? How catastrophic is the situation of these Little children?

still, there is a question not answered, will these techniques will be effective?

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SamuSocial, for example, deals with roughly 8,500 children, which represent around 2.5% of the total of homeless children in Egypt. This small percentage can be Increased by raising awareness about how dealing with a street kid and how we can help him Instead of exposing them to the Cruel world and hands behind

the back watching them slowly drifting to a dark unknown future. “streets do not give birth to these children... Bad decisions do’’ commented dr. Youssef replying to the common phrase of “sons of streets”

shared by most of the society. Now, many NGOs are planning to have an artistic, cultural and education - Al plan. Let us take our example, SamuSocial, this organization has a partnership with total

Academy, to collaborate in building an artistic personality that will evolve the children and draws a new future for them.

In conclusion, neglect is not an option for solving this problem, as it devouring further in the streets of Egypt, it has to come to an end by just not let these children benefit from the streets, begging and theft is the mainstream that feeds this minor society, as it was neglected

For more than 60 years it became a small country in Egypt, a harmful plant growing in our backyard. Luckily there are many NGOs that react with the figurative plague that encountered many of the population. NGOs cannot do this alone,

It is essential to have public support and a public stand by these entities to end this nightmare for good.