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This is a brief description of the service,
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The case of the girl child on the street is still an underreported and
widely misunderstood phenomenon all over the world.
She is the 'invisible' street child because, unlike the boy child who
sleeps on street corners, she has to resort to the relative safety of
brothels and sleazy hotels, and indulge in survival sex. She is not
visible to the public eye, and although their numbers are at least equal
to the boy child on the street, there are but a handful projects
worldwide who caters for this child. The Alliance hopes to get
service providers together, to share information, and to further the
knowledge of the immense needs of these children.
Key Benefits to Society
- Saving large numbers of girl children from commercial sexual
exploitation will save much larger numbers of children being raised by
dysfunctional mothers--and the cycle of abuse and neglect can be
broken. During 1999 alone Theosis projects directly saved at
least 400 girls from the streets. The indirect influence we have
on public opinion, government agencies, motivating other agencies to
cater and care for the child, etc. cannot be determined.
- Saving more children from a life in prostitution, and educating them
about the perils of HIV, is making an effort to arrest the spread of
the virus to/by these girls--potentially saving society millions in
money terms and many thousand in human life terms.
- Mothers, not children, are the future of our world. Mothers
are the prime shapers and influencers of children and this is where
the new era must start correcting itself--start with the girl child
and teach her, equip her, train her, and help her to shape the future
for us all
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