ASSISTING CHILDREN IN DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES

There are between 60 and 65 children that go to the center everyday that don”™t attend to school or suffer from work exploitation. They give them all kind of living support although normally they live in their houses, they are against having them 24/7 in the center. Thus the support arrangements are spread over three areas: - Children who were found in the street, not attending to school. - Children working to get money for their families, not able to attend school because of this reason. - Children suffering from work exploitation. The center has a preventive axis: day care for children who require professional counseling, enrollment in non-formal education, school re-enrollment and administrative and legal assistance especially for non-registered children marital status and children victims all kinds of violence. Ways of insertion: - Family support: When the problem is about broken families, the center looks for a better one that can host/adopt the child, so that they can guarantee their right to education, dignity etc. - Personal: Providing the children that go to the center with food, cleaning etc (two women helping), 1 person in charge of administrative issues, 1 person accompanying families for the correct development of children”™s lives. The mission and objectives of Bayti is: The prevention of exclusion, violence and exploitation The physical, social and legal protection of children Psychosocial rehabilitation Scholarization and family reintegration Internal continuous education and training of other staff associations The Advocacy for the promotion and defense of children”™s rights Their values: Respect for the principles of the International Convention of the 1989 Children”™s Rights: Best interests of the child, no discrimination, Right to life and development, to Identity, to health, to protection, to education, to participation... Volunteer”™s tasks:They will help the children out with every day”™s tasks. They will be in the center from 9 am to 1 pm, until the children go to public schools and then from 7 pm to 9 pm, when they will keep doing activities with them. The volunteers are free to establish their own programs or activities, making up games for entertaining. They will help with scholar support, artistic activities, sports etc. When possible, if the volunteer has knowledge about it, he or she can help with administrative tasks or with the families follow up, learning about the way the center does it.