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July 20, 2006

The Post Online (Cameroon): Are NGOs And CIGs Performing Their Tasks?

The Post Online (Cameroon): Are NGOs And CIGs Performing Their Tasks?

Blogged story from Cameroon newspaper about street children and ngos.

"…Street children, as young as 10, have taken the Bamenda Municipal Stadium as a home, engaging in drug consumption. They also engage in robbery as pass as porters, targeting housewives who go to the market on a daily basis. They also live in school fields, cemeteries especially at night where they do awful activities like casting dices, playing cards, draughts, and many other dangerous games. Franklin Soh is an underprivileged child who roams the streets in Bamenda. He blames his mother for her irresponsibility, which led him into the streets. His mother did not only refuse to show him his father when he demanded to know him, but did not send him to school as well…."

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