A mother may be around. But the mother is sick and can't do anything. The problem in Mozambique is not just the lack of adequate food and education but the damaging psychological effects that war can have on children, especially those who fought themselves. The South African Broadcasting Corporation reported that an estimated 10,000 children were used as soldiers in Mozambique, and for many of them the emotional scars from watching or performing atrocities will never leave them. A report by Robyn Curnow looked at efforts to rehabilitate about 150 of these children, making use of traditional healers and ancestral connections to help the children regain self esteem.
Special attention is placed on former female child soldiers.
And so they create a taboo and don't want to speak about that. Philippine street children struggle to survive Many children in the Philippines, and their families, are simply trying to survive the mean streets of greater Manila . A homeless mother and child beg on the streets of a Manila suburb Jay Taruc, a reporter for GMA-7 News, focused in a recent contribution to CNN World Report on several homeless families who live on a small bridge in Quezon City, a Manila suburb and the Philippines' former capital. She earns more than I do through begging. That's why my wife shoulders most of our expenses.