Invitation to attend
the “International Forum for Stakeholders on Street Children and Street Work”,
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I have the pleasure to invite you to
the “International Forum for
Stakeholders on Street Children and Street Work”, to be held on 25-28
November 2002 in Brussels and which is jointly organised
by the European Network on Street Children Worldwide (ENSCW) and Dynamo (a
major Belgian mobile youth work organisation).
This innovative Forum will bring together relevant
stakeholders involved in the issue of street and excluded children in order to
raise public awareness and call for political attention and commitment. In
particular, it will call on the European Union for a global and concerted plan
of action to improve the situation of street children and to support them to
enjoy their rights in
The International Forum builds upon the experiences of two
projects
carried out by ENSCW (“Satellite Street Children Project”) and Dynamo (“Action
Research Project”) in the last two years and involving NGOs working with street
children and children at risk in more than 40 countries. Both aim at improving
the practical performance of work with street children, to embed this work in a
wider setting to avoid social exclusion and to ask public and political
attention for the most vulnerable citizen in the world: street children.
Based on field experience of social workers and facts about
street children all over the world, the Forum intends:
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To take stock of the measures already adopted by
the EU and increase the visibility of what has been achieved until now with
regard to children in difficult circumstances
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To provide policy-makers with examples of
promising practices directly linked to the expertise of field actors and with
recommendations
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To raise public awareness about the situation of
street children in and outside
The Forum is divided into two parts:
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the first part from
25 to 27 November aims at formulating recommendations by field actors and
other involved stakeholders, includes a series of workshops on important themes
concerning street children and street work, as well as cultural and social
events. The event is to be held in Le Flagey
building.
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on Thursday 28
November a Public Session will be held within the premises of the European
Parliament and will involve representatives of the European Union,
International Organisations and other relevant stakeholders.
For your information, I enclose a preliminary leaflet
on the International Forum and the latest Programme of the Forum’s Public
Session.
If you want to participate in the whole Forum, please
fill in the attached registration form and send it back to us as soon as
possible, in any case by 15 November 2002.
If
you wish to participate only in the Public Session of the Forum, please fill in
the shorter registration form and send it by
You
will receive all relevant information and documentation on
Stefania@enscw.org.