Urban girls : empowerment in especially difficult circumstances /
Barker, Gary
Urban girls : empowerment in especially difficult circumstances / Gary Barker and Felicia Knaul with Neide Cassaniga and Anita Schrader. - 135 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword -- About this publication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Especially Difficult Circumstances -- Street girls -- Urban girls at work -- Commercial sexual exploitation -- Teenage mothers -- Identifying needs and programme responses -- Income Generation and Vocational Training -- Case study: Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative (YSEI), Street Kids International (SKI); Zambia -- Case history: Profile of three participants of the Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative -- Model programme: Servol Life Centres: Education for life and work; Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies -- Model programme: Child Welfare Society of Kenya: Empowering domestic workers -- Model programme: The SIMMA Vocational Training Institute and the WACAR Foundation: Empowerment of women for better prospects and sustainable development; The Gambia -- Elements of success: Income generation and vocational training -- Formal and Non-formal Education -- Cause study: Adolescent Mothers Programme of the Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation: A second change for education -- Case history: Ellorine, from teen mother to nurse: Jamaica -- Model programme: Enda: Literacy for domestic workers; Dakar, Senegal -- Model programme: Paaralang Pantao; Children's Laboratory for Drama in Education and The People's School; Manila, The Philippines -- Elements of success: Formal and non-formal education -- Health and Mental Wellbeing -- Case study: Casa de Passagem: Health outreach by and for girls; Recife, Brazil -- Case history: Betania, form street girl to mother; Brazil -- Model programme: Kabalikat, Philippines: Health education for street children and bar workers; Manila, the Philippines -- Model programme: Undugu Society of Kenya: 'Outward bound' for street girls; Nairobi, Kenya -- Elements of success: Health and mental wellbeing -- Culture -- Case study: Sasha Bruce Teen Mothers Programme: Rites of passage for African-American girls; Washington, DC, USA -- Model programme: FACT: AIDS education through art; Bangkok, Thailand -- Model programme: African Culture International: Theatre of change, theatre of tradition; Dakar, Senegal -- Model programme: Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation: Linking the elderly and youth; Manila, the Philippines -- Elements of success: Culture -- Advocacy and Protecting Girls' and Young Women's Rights -- Model programme: The Kamla Project: Preventing sexual exploitation of girls; Thailand -- Model programme: ECPAT: Legislation against cross-border sexual exploitation of children; Worldwide network -- Model programme: Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children: Confronting harmful traditions -- Model programme: Heart-to-Heart: Preventing sexual abuse among adolescent mothers and their children; Chicago, USA -- Elements of success: Advocacy and rights -- Involving Boys and Men in Efforts to Improve Young Women's Lives -- Reflections on working with adolescent boys in the reproductive-health field -- Reflections on involving men in the prevention of domestic violence -- Programme examples in working with adolescent boys -- Case study: The experience of SIDH in India -- Case study: ECOS's experience in Brazil -- Case study: The experience of the Ounce of Prevention Fund in the USA -- Lessons learned from work with adolescent males in gender equity -- Conclusions -- Advocacy recommendations -- Service recommendations -- Looking to the future -- References and Bibliography -- Consortium for Street Children-Profile -- CSC members working with at-risk girls and young women. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8.
1853394750 9781853394751
00693283
Girls--Social conditions
Urban women--Social conditions
Young women--Social conditions
HQ777 / .B245 2000
305.42091732
Urban girls : empowerment in especially difficult circumstances / Gary Barker and Felicia Knaul with Neide Cassaniga and Anita Schrader. - 135 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword -- About this publication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Especially Difficult Circumstances -- Street girls -- Urban girls at work -- Commercial sexual exploitation -- Teenage mothers -- Identifying needs and programme responses -- Income Generation and Vocational Training -- Case study: Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative (YSEI), Street Kids International (SKI); Zambia -- Case history: Profile of three participants of the Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative -- Model programme: Servol Life Centres: Education for life and work; Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies -- Model programme: Child Welfare Society of Kenya: Empowering domestic workers -- Model programme: The SIMMA Vocational Training Institute and the WACAR Foundation: Empowerment of women for better prospects and sustainable development; The Gambia -- Elements of success: Income generation and vocational training -- Formal and Non-formal Education -- Cause study: Adolescent Mothers Programme of the Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation: A second change for education -- Case history: Ellorine, from teen mother to nurse: Jamaica -- Model programme: Enda: Literacy for domestic workers; Dakar, Senegal -- Model programme: Paaralang Pantao; Children's Laboratory for Drama in Education and The People's School; Manila, The Philippines -- Elements of success: Formal and non-formal education -- Health and Mental Wellbeing -- Case study: Casa de Passagem: Health outreach by and for girls; Recife, Brazil -- Case history: Betania, form street girl to mother; Brazil -- Model programme: Kabalikat, Philippines: Health education for street children and bar workers; Manila, the Philippines -- Model programme: Undugu Society of Kenya: 'Outward bound' for street girls; Nairobi, Kenya -- Elements of success: Health and mental wellbeing -- Culture -- Case study: Sasha Bruce Teen Mothers Programme: Rites of passage for African-American girls; Washington, DC, USA -- Model programme: FACT: AIDS education through art; Bangkok, Thailand -- Model programme: African Culture International: Theatre of change, theatre of tradition; Dakar, Senegal -- Model programme: Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation: Linking the elderly and youth; Manila, the Philippines -- Elements of success: Culture -- Advocacy and Protecting Girls' and Young Women's Rights -- Model programme: The Kamla Project: Preventing sexual exploitation of girls; Thailand -- Model programme: ECPAT: Legislation against cross-border sexual exploitation of children; Worldwide network -- Model programme: Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children: Confronting harmful traditions -- Model programme: Heart-to-Heart: Preventing sexual abuse among adolescent mothers and their children; Chicago, USA -- Elements of success: Advocacy and rights -- Involving Boys and Men in Efforts to Improve Young Women's Lives -- Reflections on working with adolescent boys in the reproductive-health field -- Reflections on involving men in the prevention of domestic violence -- Programme examples in working with adolescent boys -- Case study: The experience of SIDH in India -- Case study: ECOS's experience in Brazil -- Case study: The experience of the Ounce of Prevention Fund in the USA -- Lessons learned from work with adolescent males in gender equity -- Conclusions -- Advocacy recommendations -- Service recommendations -- Looking to the future -- References and Bibliography -- Consortium for Street Children-Profile -- CSC members working with at-risk girls and young women. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8.
1853394750 9781853394751
00693283
Girls--Social conditions
Urban women--Social conditions
Young women--Social conditions
HQ777 / .B245 2000
305.42091732