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Disposable Humanity

posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 09:33 AM

Modern day slavery, people trafficking, child pornography. These are issues which rightfully raise our concerns, but how often do we consider the source, the raw material of disposable humanity at the heart of the problem.

Here for example are some disturbing facts, in just one country - Ukraine

1. There are over 100,000 orphans in Ukraine.
2. The older an orphan gets, the chances for his/her adoption drastically decrease.
3. Each year many orphans between 15 to 18-years-old leave the orphanages.
4. Most of these orphans have no one to turn to for help.
5. About 10% of them will commit suicide after leaving the orphanage before their eighteenth birthday.
6. 60% of the girls will end up in prostitution
7. 70% of the boys will enter a life of crime
8. Only 27% of these youth will find work

Sources:

www.musicmissionkiev.org/news_detail.cfm
www.everychild.org.uk/article
www.everychild.org.uk/media/documents/The_Silent_Crisis.pdf
www.everychild.org.uk/media/documents/Children_and_Disability.pdf

P-CED as an advocacy for Human Rights and Social Enterprise has been active in Ukraine over the past 5 years and here are a couple of our observations: Starving street children and the death camps awaiting the disabled:

eng.maidanua.org/node/331
eng.maidanua.org/node/581

Advocacy continues, with a proposal for reform. large scale intervention and empowerment:

www.netsquared.org/projects/proposals/targetted-economic-development-for-social-and-economic-empowerment

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