Bangladesh: helping vulnerable girls off the streets
Fact: more than 250,000 children live on the streets in Dhaka, Bangladesh,and more than half of these are girls.
Aim: to improve the lives of 5,000 girls living on the streets by running a drop-in centre, providing medical treatment, recreation, education and vocational training, and beds for 30 of the most vulnerable girls.
What you can do:
- £50 could provide bedding for a happy home
- £360 could provide basic health and medicine for 30 girls who stay at the home
- £480 could help 30 girls gain access to employment and housing
- £3,300 could pay the rent for the shelter for one year
- £4,600 could provide food for all of the children using the centre for a year
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photo : ©G.M.B. Akash/Panos/ActionAi d
Fact file
- The population of Dhaka has risen from 7 to 12 million in the past 10 years.
- Women and girls living on the street are vulnerable to exploitation by street gangs, pimps, police and traffickers.
- Only 45% of girls make it to secondary education.
- 37% of people live below the poverty line.
- ActionAid has been working with local partner, Assistance for Slum Dwellers, since 2000 and has already established five drop-in centres in Dhaka to help young people build the skills and confidence needed to change their lives
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