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MOZAMBIQUE RED CROSS (CVM) STREET CHILD PROJECT 1. BACKGROUNDThe Street Child project comprises 2 open child centres: Tinotenda in Beira and Boa Esperança in Maputo. Activities were started by local CVM youth groups in 1998 – 1990. For many years the majority of the children supported by the centres were children who had fled from the rural areas during the war. Most of these children have been integrated in their families. Due to the poverty of families and social conflicts, the number of street children has been rising in the main urban centres. Lately the centres also assist other children in very difficult circumstances or urban children at risk, including AIDS orphans. 2. PROJECT OBJECTIVESTo help street children as well as other urban children at risk in their psycho-social development, by providing a space where they can develop educational, recreational and vocational activities, promoting their social (re)-integration in the family and community. 3. TARGET GROUPPriority groups are orphans, children who do not know the whereabouts of their relatives, children living in the street, children who have been victims or physical and moral abuse, and children from families whose socio-economic condition does not guarantee their social integration. 4. ACTIVITIES
The Tinotenda Centre in Beira has simple boarding facilities (mats and blankets) and has normally about 80 internal children. Since 1998 the Boa Esperança Centre in Maputo has no longer children sleeping overnight in the centre. On the average 70 children per day attend activities at the centre, while the total number of children supported per year is around 150.
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