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| New NGO Helps Street Children In Baghdad |
| 2004-06-24 |
| EFL from RFE/RL Thousands of homeless children are living on the streets of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. They are begging, stealing, selling, or using drugs, rooting through garbage for food, and sleeping on the pavement. Some of them have been living this way for just days, but others have been on the street for more than a year since leaving state-run orphanages after the collapse of the regime. RFE/RL correspondent Valentinas Mite is in Baghdad and reports the problem is causing mounting concern among new Iraqi NGOs. -snip- who is there to help? will it be the UN, the French, or the WWP? Asmaa Rasheed, a Sunni Arab, is a program manager for the Kurdistan Save the Children Fund (KSC), an NGO that has been operating in northern Iraq since 1991. The organization opened a Baghdad branch a year ago, just after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It opened a shelter for street children in the Iraqi capital in November. -snip- The KSC, a Muslim charity that probably doesn’t funnel cash to AQ or Hezzbolah. |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #1 That's how it's supposed to work. Shhhh - don't tell the Western NGOs; they'll do everything they can to screw it up. Wouldn't want an NGO doing the right thing and showing up the rest. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-06-24 11:53:58 AM |