Buy a day and spend, the other side of the Skopje metropolis.
Buy a day and spend, the other side of the Skopje metropolis. Children beggars (not) visible to the state
11.11.2018 | TV 24
In the baroque gown of the Skopje metropolis, hundreds of sad fates are hiding under the glare of massive monuments, bridges, boulevards. In the center of the city, and yet hidden from the public's eyes, they live as tramps. Today they are here, tomorrow who knows where they will be.
Where we find there we go. An empty space, where we find it, we will pop up, says Senat, the oldest member of the family.
Senat lives on the Vardar quay in the city center. In a makeshift shed he lives with a dozen members of his family. Their family business is the plastic bottles that they collect all over the city. The youngest ones also help on collecting plastic bottles.
Now I came from the bins, here behind the wheelbarrow, I went to search maybe I find something so I can cook for the kids to eat, what can we do, we have nowhere to go, says Suzana, the daughter-in-law of Senat.
The children don’t go to school, although some of them, so far, had to start. That’s why they are waiting with special joy Friday to come - the day when they visit the Children's Embassy, which they experience as a school.
Children that come to our organization is the smalest thing that a civil organization can do to solve the problem of children on the street, which every day are from 500 to 2000 in the whole country. Simply they are forced to earn because none of the family members work and they live in substandard conditions , says Dragi Zmijanac, president and founder of the First Children's Embassy in the World Megjashi.
For forced begging and exploitation of child labor, his wife was convicted, although Senat claims that she is not guilty. The child still lives with them. Social services say they visited this family and offered them accommodation in Chichino Selo, but they refused. Senat considers that it is a dangerous place for his daughters.
Housing, chances for employment, education and health were the key spheres on which Macedonia committed herself to work to improve the lives of Roma comunity and their integration into society. But, research of the effects of the famous Roma Decade are disappointing . They show that in fact, in the last ten years, almost nothing has changed.
From the Ombudsman's office, they alarmed that for real changes, they need money, and they say that the strategy for integration of the Roma comunity has been done for the most part with projects with foreign donations, and for real changes, a lot of work should be done, emphasized from the Children's Embassy Megjashi too.
Employment of one of the family members, involving children in preschool and primary school and a roof over their head – only like that we can fight child poverty, fight illiteracy and abuse of child labor - says Zmijanac.
From the Ministry of Social Affairs assure that child poverty is the number one priority and that they have prepared a thorough reform of the social system and child care.
They announce higher social assistance, employment of vulnerable and higher child allowances. In the meantime, the results are vigilantly awaited and the international factor that has repeatedly stated that the protection of the hungry people is key for opening the doors to the EU. Until then, we will peep through the keyhole.
CHILDREN IN THE STREET-CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL IN MACEDONIA
The children of the streets are children excluded from the education. In Macedonia they are 18.500 children that are not attending the obliged elementary education that is guaranteed with the Constitution and the Convention for human rights. Over 2000 children everyday are on the streets crossroads with open hands and norm of earning. That offends the basic children rights that are right for healthy and dignified life, right for education, right for health care and warm home. A lot of these children are victims of prostitution, children trafficking, distribution and usage of drugs, sexual abuse. We had cases when the parents were selling their children to other adults for sexual services.
In Macedonia, over 2000 children spend their day on the street under the clear sky in abnormal conditions. 30 % from them are children without parents or parental care.
The children on the street in Republic of Macedonia are part of every age and nationalities, but the biggest population - 58%, are the Roma people. We are also concerned by the fact that 15,5 % of these children are in pre-elementary age, 64% are in the age of 7-14 years, 88,5% manifest socially unexpected behavior, and 11,5 % have tolerant social behavior (according the Office for social affairs in Skopje).
The abuse of the children labour means work performed by children that are under the age prescribed by the law. We accent here that the abuse of the children labour do not means only physical work, but also commercial sexual abuse (child prostitution and pornography), children trafficking, children solders.
First Children's Embassy in the World Megjashi, Republic of Macedonia
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Mother Teresa, known in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒiu]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Macedonia for eighteen years she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.
In 1950 Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation which had over 4,500 sisters and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics; children's- and family-counselling programmes; orphanages, and schools. Members, who take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, also profess a fourth vow: to give wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor.Teresa received a number of honours, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was canonised (recognised by the church as a saint) on 4 September 2016, and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is her feast day.
A controversial figure during her life and after her death, Teresa was admired by many for her charitable work. She was praised and criticised for her opposition to abortion, and criticised for poor conditions in her houses for the dying. Her authorised biography was written by Navin Chawla and published in 1992, and she has been the subject of films and other books. On September 6, 2017, Teresa was named co-patron of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta, alongside St. Francis Xavier.