ASSISTANCE FOR STREET CHILDREN PROJECT MOLISA in partnership with EC ASSISTANCE FOR STREET CHILDREN

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ASSISTANCE FOR STREET CHILDREN PROJECTMOLISA in
partnership with ECASSISTANCE FOR STREET
CHILDREN PROJECT(8/2004 7/2007)Vietnam
Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs
In partnership with European Commission
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Situation

• few real street children
• more working children
• children at risk to in rural areas
• seasoning street children
• child trafficking

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Projects Objectives Purposes

• Overall Objective
• To restore street childrens rights to health,
  education and family care and to preserve these
  rights for children at risk.
• Project Purposes
• reduce the number of street children through
  reunification with family
• if not possible, support with alternative models
  for care
• prevent new children to leave home for the street

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Scope of intervention
In total 50 communities in 10
Provinces Number of street children and children
at risk 5,439 children
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Organization
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Comprehensive Model

• The Project is implementing 5 components
• Strengthening of institutional capacity in
  planning, managing and coordination actions
• Strengthening of operational capacity of
  institutions involved
• Fostering family reunification and social
  integration
• Establishing alternative forms of care and
  education for those children who cannot be united
  with their families
• Organizing awareness campaigns and mobilizing
  interest in preventing/halting the out-flow of
  street children

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Implementing steps

• Step 1 Identification
• Step 2 Counselling
• Step 3 Individual Plan
• healthcare
• educational support
• vocational training and job-finding support

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Implementing steps
Step 4 Family support Social Development
Fund Income generating support Step 5 Community
support Alternative care Family or community
based
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Implementing steps

• Training in basic social intervention
• Monitoring
• Follow up

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Projects structure

• Local level DOLISA and local committees on
  children and families at risk
• Provincial level DELISA and Provincial Project
  Task Force
• Central level MOLISA and Project Task Force

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Projects results

• 5,947 children at risk on the street and children
  at risk provided with counseling services by
  social workers
• 1,098 children at risk on the street sustainably
  reunited with their families

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Projects results (cont.)

• 2,340 children at risk on the street and children
  at risk reaching National Education Standards
• 1,995 children at risk on the street and children
  at risk gaining access to health care that brings
  them close to National Standards

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Projects results

• 372 boys and girls undertaking vocational
  training
• 142 of children who cannot/not yet be resettled
  receiving alternative care support including
  accommodated in foster families
• 1,349 of families receiving income generation
  support

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Projects results

• Good Governance
• Strengthening democracy and participation
• Poverty Alleviation

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Challenges

• Vocational qualification standards
• Guidance for basic social interventions at
  community level
• Vocational training on demand
• Sustainability
• Multipliable

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