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The National Project on Street Children, implemented by DSWD and a

network of NGOs under the National Council for Social Development,


now covers 27 cities and five urban municipalities. In are covered by
the project has an interagency body made up of government agencies
and NGOs. The interagency body carries out continuing situation
analysis, training and capability building, advocacy and resources
generation, organizing families and providing direct services. By the
end of December 1997, approximately 70,000 street children and
youth had been reached over a 10-year period. Over 400 government
agencies and non – government organizations were responsible for
various programs and services. These include education and vocational
training; livelihood, micro-credit and employment assistance; legal
protection; health and prevention education for substance abuse, STD
and HIV/AIDS; crisis counseling and other psychosocial services;
restoration of family ties; and opportunities for participation and
building of self esteem. These services are implemented in the context
of three major strategies that evolved over the years: centre – based
street – based, and community – based programmes.

There are now at about 350 government and non – government


agencies that are responding to the conditions of the street children
and their families. Their efforts can be classified into three categories,
namely, center-based, community-based and street-based.
Particularly, they provide their services in the forms of the following
activities:

a. community organizing;
b. income generating projects;
c. health and nutrition services;
d. educational assistance;
e. counseling services;
f. effective parenting seminars;
g. livelihood and skills training;
h. residential care;
i. temporary shelters for those street children who could not return
to their families; and
j. foster and adoption programs as alternative parental care and
family life.

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