Maison de la Gare

Maison de la Gare的使命是实现乞讨的talibe街头儿童融入正规学校和塞内加尔社会的生产性参与。在塞内加尔，成千上万的talibe儿童每天在街头乞讨6到10个小时，乞讨食物和钱，以便交给控制他们的“老师”或Marabout。他们生活在“daaras”的恶劣条件下，得不到自来水、基本的卫生或养育，往往没有住所，遭受严重虐待。人权观察组织在2010年发表了一份广泛传播的关于这种情况的描述，名为《儿童的背上》。Maison de la Gare的行为…阅读更多Maison de la Gare的使命是实现乞讨的talibe街头儿童融入正规学校和塞内加尔社会的生产性参与。在塞内加尔，成千上万的talibe儿童每天在街头乞讨6到10个小时，乞讨食物和钱，以便交给控制他们的“老师”或Marabout。他们生活在“daaras”的恶劣条件下，得不到自来水、基本的卫生或养育，往往没有住所，遭受严重虐待。人权观察组织在2010年发表了一份广泛传播的关于这种情况的描述，名为《儿童的背上》。Maison de la Gare的行动目标是结束圣路易斯的talibe乞讨，据估计其中包括7000多名3到19岁的男孩。在国际合作伙伴的资金和组织支持下，该中心于2010年在前火车站或“车库里”的租赁宿舍开始建设。该中心的项目将支持圣路易斯的塔利班获得基础教育，或为年长的塔利班学习市场技能。乞讨的塔利班情况很复杂，深深植根于塞内加尔和西非穆斯林的文化和宗教传统中。尽管联合国儿童权利委员会在其1995年和2006年的“结论性意见”中呼吁采取行动，但果断行动在政治上是困难的。许多倡议由于忽视了这种情况的文化和社会现实而步履蹒跚。 Maison de la Gare is working from within the present situation to effect permanent change. The organization's broad objectives are: 1. Integrate talibe children into the formal school system, through literacy classes and teaching the life skills necessary for success there. This objective includes providing literacy classes, hygiene instruction and nutritional support (allowing children to attend class when they would normally be begging for their food). It also requires documentation dossiers for individual children as necessary in the absence of any family support system. 2. Support talibes integrated into the school system with tutoring, nurturing and material support as necessary for success. This requirement will grow as more talibe are integrated into formal schooling. 3. Prepare Saint Louis talibe children, from the base of Maison de la Gare's Center, for integration into society, and support the success in Maison de la Gare's programs, through sports and arts programs, medical care, and nutritional and hygiene teaching and support. The talibes have in general NO access to medical treatment or support. Maison de la Gare has recently built an infirmary within the Center, and engages a nurse and hopes to train nursing aids. The Center's staff serves the medical needs of talibe children throughout Saint Louis, linking them to the Center and its programs and reinforcing relationships with the "Marabouts" who have control over them. 4. Prepare older talibes, age 15 and over, to be self supporting through apprenticeship programs, including tailoring and market gardening. This requires in-depth relationships with the talibe students, finding ways to reintegrate them into society, either in their home communities or in Saint Louis. 5. Collaborate actively with local, national and international initiatives working to end talibe street begging. Maison de la Gare's new Center has already made the Association a beacon for those concerned with a long term solution to the talibe problem, providing a base for establishing constructive working relationships with Marabouts around Saint Louis, the city administration, and with Amnesty International, Toscan, UNESCO and others acting for children on a national level.