International Children Day: Group asks Cross River govt to rehabilitate street children

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The group says WTP the children are kids who the society with its laws, institutions, cultures and religion, have left behind.

, a non- profit organisation, We The People , has called on the government of Cross River State to address the issue of children living on the streets of Calabar.is celebrated annually on November 20 to promote togetherness and improve children’s welfare across the world.boys and Lacasera girls, troubled residents on the streets of Calabar.

The children are usually abandoned by their families and are pronounced witches or wizard before being thrown out, it said, adding that they are sometimes of accused of being criminals by families. “The other is that those possessed can be ‘saved’ through extreme exorcism which most times involves physical torture including flogging, branding with hot metals, burning, starvation, restraint through chaining, exposure to extreme weather, denial of sleep and prolonged incarceration.”

It said: “These approaches do not take into consideration the deeper and more far reaching issues including how the kids got on the street in the first place, and what needs to be done to reverse the trend.”

 

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