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It is horrifying to think that many Africans are condemned at birth to a future of poverty, disease and premature death. It is not surprising then, with communities and families under stresses such as these that street children emerge.
Congo Family Restoration exists to address the needs of children in the street and to orphans to restore their lives and reunite them, if possible, with their families.
Many Street Children Are:
- Orphans because of disease and conflict
- Seperated from families because of domestic violence and abuse.
- Through HIV/Aids passed on congenitally, or through unprotected sex. Malnutrition severely affects their growth and resistance to tropical diseases such as malaria which kills over one million Africans every year.
- Stigmatized, they live on the edge of society.
- Uneducated, they have no access to schooling.
- Abused, they are at best seen as a nuisance and worth beating.
- Anonymous, they have no birth registration documents, no health care, no identity within their communty.