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Nearly three generations of Angolans have been at war for 41 years. Despite the shortage of data in Angola, reports indicate that a large numbers of girls were abducted during the war. Little information is available regarding the nature of the abducted girl’s experiences and the impact of their experiences on subsequent integration into community life. The anecdotal evidence gathered here (from interviews of 20 young women from peri-urban Luanda and rural Huambo provinces) suggests that when these girls return to their communities, they lack the emotional, social, legal and economic support…
While children are now found on the streets of cities in both the developing and developed world, programmes for street children have a longer evolutionary history in developing countries, and in particular Latin America. Through systematic research and attention to the voices of street children and their families, policy makers and practitioners are moving from understanding the more observable risks posed to children in the street environment, to the conditions that push children there in the first place. Given what we have learned about the processes that create street children, to…