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Article: Kuleana Centre for Children's Rights.
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- October 1, 1997
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In 1992, kuleana conducted an extensive situational analysis of street children in Mwanza, Tanzania. Kuleana's research revealed a way of life very different from the traditional stereotypes that characterized street children. It found them to be remarkably resilient and ingenuous, capable of facing responsibilities and forming deep, caring friendships despite dealing with violence, sexual abuses, stigma, prejudices, and emotional trauma. It showed that they were routinely denied their right to speak by a society that seemed to be making the lives of these children as difficult as possible--in the hope that they would just disappear and cease to be a problem.
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