TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barker,Gary
AU  - Knaul,Felicia Marie
AU  - Cassaniga,Neide
TI  - Urban girls: empowerment in especially difficult circumstances 
SN  - 1853394750
AV  - HQ777 .B245 2000
U1  - 305.42091732 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London
PB  - Intermediate Technology
KW  - Girls
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Urban women
KW  - Young women
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Foreword --; About this publication --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Ch. 1; Especially Difficult Circumstances --; Street girls --; Urban girls at work --; Commercial sexual exploitation --; Teenage mothers --; Identifying needs and programme responses --; Ch. 2; 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 --; Ch. 3; 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 --; Ch. 4; 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 --; Ch. 5; 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 --; Ch. 6; 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 --; Ch. 7; 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 --; Ch. 8; 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
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