Eurochild is delighted that the position of the European Parliament’s Employment and Social Affairs Committee includes an additional priority to promote children’s rights and well-being in order to protect children at risk and tackle child poverty within the European Social Fund (ESF) 2014-2020.
Even before the ‘credit crunch’ of 2008 and the economic crises of 2011, the globalization of neo-liberal economic and fiscal regimes was generating growing social, economic and cultural polarization.
The present two numbers of the Newsletter “Young for the future” are edited under the project “Empowering NSA’S AND LA’S in Moldova and Ukraine to promote social inclusion of young care-leavers”, a project financed by the European Union and implemented by the Association “Amici dei Bambini”.
Eurochild is currently producing a scoping study as part of its contribution to the European Year 2012 on Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations.
The Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating the Trafficking of Human Beings of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe(OSCE), Maria Grazia Giammarinaro visited Moldova and reported the terrible increase in number of children with intellectual disabilities assessed as victims of human trafficking.
According to the former Ministry of Ukraine for Family, Youth and Sports (dissolved in 2011), the number of or-phaned children and children deprived of parental care in Ukraine accounted for 103,452 in 2008.
Disclosure of information concerning the health of children and problem behavior is a prerequisite for discrimination and stigmatization. This can affect very negatively the relations of these children within the community in which they live, and the circle of peers with which they study and communicate.
A care leavers’ charter will launch later this year in a bid to improve the support councils provide as corporate parents.Janet Rich, a trustee at the Care Leavers Foundation, said care leaving services are patchy around the country, and the charter could raise standards among the worst performing councils.
As we are being made hopeful, that the European Commission will eventually publish its Recommendation on Child Poverty, (probably in 2013), the first studies and findings are being published by NGOs, Intergovernmental organisations like the UNICEF and research bodies on the impact of the austerity measures on family and child poverty.
When I was only one month old, I lost my first family. I lived for five months in an orphanage in China sharing a crib with two other babies. Because of the shortage of food, the nannies or ayis (pronounced “eye–ease”) thickened our bottles with ground rice to keep our stomachs full.
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