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Foreword | ||
About this publication | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Ch. 1 | Especially Difficult Circumstances | 7 |
Street girls | 8 | |
Urban girls at work | 12 | |
Commercial sexual exploitation | 17 | |
Teenage mothers | 21 | |
Identifying needs and programme responses | 25 | |
Ch. 2 | Income Generation and Vocational Training | 29 |
Case study: Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative (YSEI), Street Kids International (SKI); Zambia | 30 | |
Case history: Profile of three participants of the Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative | 34 | |
Model programme: Servol Life Centres: Education for life and work; Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies | 36 | |
Model programme: Child Welfare Society of Kenya: Empowering domestic workers | 38 | |
Model programme: The SIMMA Vocational Training Institute and the WACAR Foundation: Empowerment of women for better prospects and sustainable development; The Gambia | 40 | |
Elements of success: Income generation and vocational training | 42 | |
Ch. 3 | Formal and Non-formal Education | 45 |
Cause study: Adolescent Mothers Programme of the Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation: A second change for education | 46 | |
Case history: Ellorine, from teen mother to nurse: Jamaica | 49 | |
Model programme: Enda: Literacy for domestic workers; Dakar, Senegal | 50 | |
Model programme: Paaralang Pantao; Children's Laboratory for Drama in Education and The People's School; Manila, The Philippines | 51 | |
Elements of success: Formal and non-formal education | 54 | |
Ch. 4 | Health and Mental Wellbeing | 57 |
Case study: Casa de Passagem: Health outreach by and for girls; Recife, Brazil | 58 | |
Case history: Betania, form street girl to mother; Brazil | 61 | |
Model programme: Kabalikat, Philippines: Health education for street children and bar workers; Manila, the Philippines | 62 | |
Model programme: Undugu Society of Kenya: 'Outward bound' for street girls; Nairobi, Kenya | 64 | |
Elements of success: Health and mental wellbeing | 65 | |
Ch. 5 | Culture | 67 |
Case study: Sasha Bruce Teen Mothers Programme: Rites of passage for African-American girls; Washington, DC, USA | 68 | |
Model programme: FACT: AIDS education through art; Bangkok, Thailand | 72 | |
Model programme: African Culture International: Theatre of change, theatre of tradition; Dakar, Senegal | 74 | |
Model programme: Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation: Linking the elderly and youth; Manila, the Philippines | 75 | |
Elements of success: Culture | 76 | |
Ch. 6 | Advocacy and Protecting Girls' and Young Women's Rights | 79 |
Model programme: The Kamla Project: Preventing sexual exploitation of girls; Thailand | 81 | |
Model programme: ECPAT: Legislation against cross-border sexual exploitation of children; Worldwide network | 83 | |
Model programme: Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children: Confronting harmful traditions | 85 | |
Model programme: Heart-to-Heart: Preventing sexual abuse among adolescent mothers and their children; Chicago, USA | 86 | |
Elements of success: Advocacy and rights | 88 | |
Ch. 7 | Involving Boys and Men in Efforts to Improve Young Women's Lives | 91 |
Reflections on working with adolescent boys in the reproductive-health field | 92 | |
Reflections on involving men in the prevention of domestic violence | 94 | |
Programme examples in working with adolescent boys | 95 | |
Case study: The experience of SIDH in India | 95 | |
Case study: ECOS's experience in Brazil | 95 | |
Case study: The experience of the Ounce of Prevention Fund in the USA | 96 | |
Lessons learned from work with adolescent males in gender equity | 97 | |
Ch. 8 | Conclusions | 101 |
Advocacy recommendations | 101 | |
Service recommendations | 103 | |
Looking to the future | 106 | |
References and Bibliography | 107 | |
Consortium for Street Children-Profile | 119 | |
CSC members working with at-risk girls and young women | 120 |
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