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In South America:
Helping Homeless Children

Children who actually sleep on the pavements are afraid of institutions. Some come to eat breakefast and lunch for free, but most of the day, and every night they are intoxicated from sniffing glue and it is impossible to sommunicate with them. For this reason we organized a city wide Football Championship just for them on saturday morning, 7 June 2003: and they came in impressive numbers.
“We combined the competition with medical, dentasl, psychological and social services. We also gave them a meal and change of clothing..

Our unstated mission, and the main point of the project, was to encourage some of the children to enter one of three shelters in the city dedicated to receiving such children. Directors and social workers from two of these institutions participated with us in serving the children, and when the competition ended and we all sat down to a meal together we were able to present them with their options: :
continue to live as they are, suffer the cold nights and dirty unhealthy conditions, pass in and out of juvenile detention centers and perhaps one day soon die from the wretched affects of inhaling their drug, Terocol. Or else check into one of the shelters and receive three good meals a day, a comfortable bed in a warm room, care from caring people, and best of all bwecome educated.
Mundo De Niños was represented by their Coordinator, Monina, plus a social worker and volunteer child minder.
Hogar San Jose was represented by one of their directors and two staff members. Both of these shelters are for boys only.
The main girls shelter in Trujillo, Hogar de la Niña, will participate in a similar event here next Saturday.
“When the event ended many of the children did not want to leave - understandable as few of them have any place to go other than back to the street. But they left with smiles on their faces, with the knowledge that there are shelters where they will be welcome when they deciode to give up their young criminal and drug addicted lives on the street. They also left with some winter clothes asnd a few of them with prizes. In fact all they left behing were a few broken windows and some extracted teeth.We entertained 35 the first Saturday, and we expect this number to grow week be week. God willing many of them will find a way off the dangerous streets and into a life with shelter, health, safety, sanityand education. Right now many of them, boys and girls, are beggers, petty thieves, drug addicts and some of them prostitutes.
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