World Vision - Frontline Focus | Family under the Stairs

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Pakistan: Bartering in Children’s Lives	Children's Voices - Are you listening?	Romania: Still Paying the Price
Up to 19 million children are suspected to be working fulltime in Pakistan, often in unsafe circumstances. Despite the risks of abuse and exploitation, as breadwinners for struggling households, they are worth more as labourers than they are as students. Without an education and life skills they have no hope of breaking free from poverty and realising their full potential. find out more... US Department of Labor, http://www.dol.gov/ ILAB/media/reports/iclp/ sweat/pakistan.htm	From courageously sharing their own stories, raising awareness on human trafficking, or advocating for peace in their violent societies; children and youth across World Vision's Middle East, Eastern European and Central Asia region are changing their world. Hear their voices and join them in making that change. find out more...	Two years as an EU country and 20 years after Communism, home-alone children, farmers and the 1 in 4 children attending high-school in rural Romania, continue to pay a heavy price; often the price of hearts. In the midst of them Europe's largest minority, the Roma, face a harsh reality of exclusion, stigma and severe poverty. find out more...

Being an Afghan Girl	Micro Credit vs. Poverty	Refugee Children
Illiteracy, drought and tradition conspire against them.	Access to capital scores big wins for families and communities.	As many as 5 million children are refugees in an area from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Hindu Kush.
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Children on the Edge	AIDS in Russia	Iraqi Children Trapped
Children with special needs are the most likely kids to turn up in government institutions..	Russia is experiencing the fastet growing HIV and AIDS epidemic in Europe.	2-million Iraqis have fled their country and are scattered throughout Middle East.
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	Family under the Stairs
	Small group homes give youth the chance to break the suffocating cycle of institutionalization.
Two generations of women raised in institutions. Four generations living in a basement with a dirt floor, no doors, no windows, no water and no electricity. A 14-year-old girl takes the first steps to break the curse.
	Slowly, slowly, slowly
	Being there for single mothers keeps children out of institutions.
	Useless People
	Keeping children out of institutions and at home where they belong.
	Never a Bad Word
	No one wants family reunification more than children in institutions.
	The Miracle Worker
	World Vision needs a few good hearts to give their all to children, then let them go.
	Making House Calls
	Neither rain nor bad roads nor vicious dogs hamper this angel of mercy.
	Surviving Transitions
	Street children are too often seen as the problem, rather than one of its symptoms.
	A Day on the Streets
	You’ve got to be tough to live on the streets. Even more, you must be smart.