World Vision - Frontline Focus

Frontline Focus Series



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.

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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	Photo Gallery
	As European governments work together during the Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005–2015,
David Ward's portraits of the Roma in Romania provide an intimate insight to Europe's largest minority group. World Vision supports this unprecidented committment to improve the socio-economic status and the social inclusion of Roma across the continent.
Education for One in Four Fifty years of Communism left Romania’s rural communities shattered, steeped in a culture of mistrust and suspicion.
Bitter Harvest The potential of Romania’s agricultural sector is going unrealized, a situation threatening to deny millions of small farmers the prosperity others are realizing since EU membership in 2007.
The Price of Hearts Better salaries mean better futures for families except when a better job means leaving the country. Then the children are vulnerable to Home Alone Syndrome.