As It Is: Street Children in Ethiopia Need Shelter – Not Getting It
06/11/2013
An Ethiopian man uses his mobile phone to take a picture of street children sleeping on a street of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, (File photo).
From VOA Learning English, welcome to AS IT IS!
Hello, I’m Steve Ember.
Today on our program, we learn that life is not so sweet for sugar farmers in Nigeria, and of the need for shelter for street children in Ethiopia.
And, we celebrate the anniversary of the birth of the German composer Richard Strauss. He was born on this date in 1864, and while he could not have known it at the time, he wrote a very notable piece of film music.
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First off, Christopher Cruise tells us about street children in Ethiopia. They believe that their most basic need – for a roof over their heads – is not being met.
Shelter is among the many things that street children in Ethiopia wish for. But a study shows that local nongovernmental organizations and community groups rarely offer what the street children want. Azeb Adefrsew is a researcher with Save the Children, the international aid group that did the study. The researcher says the limited services provided by local NGOs do not match what the children see as their greatest needs.
“The children said that their major problem was shelter. But the street children organizations were providing, of course, mainly food and other items -- clothing and so on.”
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