Yesterday, 12th April is designated, though informally, International Day for the Street Child. The 2017 theme is ‘This us our time’. This year witnessed the United Nations making a General Comment on the right of the street child.
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| Director General of AWH giving out sumptuous eatables to children that live on the streets |
Tuesday, 11th April Achievers Wisdom House in partnership CLICE Foundation and Women That Lead celebrated with Street Children in Calabar, Cross River State capital city.
The celebration was tagged ‘Operation Clean-up the Street Child’. It saw these three NGOs shaving the hairs, giving change of clothes, feeding, counseling discussing, and dancing with the street children. The event held at Peace Park.
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| AWH, CLICE Foundation, Women that Lead had hairs of children who live on the streets cut/shaved clean |
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| Children who live on the streets had toiletries and change of clothings |
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| Promise Osan of Women that Lead counseling a 13 year old street girl |
Wednesday 12th April the duo of Achievers Wisdom House and Women that Lead were state owned broadcasting house, Cross River Broadcasting Corporation (CRBC), in the early hours of the day where they featured at CRBC Good Morning Cross River and CRBC Radio in a 10 minutes sensitisation talk before the reading of the news by 10AM.
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| L-R: member of Women that Lead (far R), DG of AWH (R in white top) street kids(middle) and Efio-Ita Nyok of AWH(far L) |
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| Group photographs with partners… |
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| Street kids having fun! |
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| Street kids departing Peace Park venue of event on 11th April |
It’s awesome! It’s fun!
Efio-Ita Nyok
Is a Blogger, the Editor & Publisher of NegroidHaven.org
