§ 21. Mr. Ian BruceTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans she has to support612W non-governmental organisations working with street children in South America. [18441]
§ Clare ShortWe are co-funding five projects with NGOs in South America amounting to approximately £288,000 in 1997–98. A detailed table is attached.
Support for local NGOs working with street children has also been provided through some of the British Partnership Schemes administered by our Embassies across South America. In addition, we are contributing £25,700 this financial year to Consortium for Street Children UK for the production of two Resource Packs on Non-Formal Education and Empowerment of Street Girls and the Prevention of Migration. These packs will be used by NGOs in South America and elsewhere.
Street children projects funded through the Joint Funding Scheme Agency Country Project name 1997–98 Childhope Brazil Judicial and Institutional Protection of Child and Adolescent 30,713 Childhope Brazil Projeto Ibeji for the Streetchildren 50,636 International Children's Trust Ecuador Street Children of Guayaquil 88,200 Jubilee Action Brazil Street Girls Education, Training Centre and Residence Home 88,287 Teesside Council for Voluntary Service Peru Care, Education, etc for Street Children 30,451 Total 288,287 Figures in respect of block grant agencies of the JFS for 1997–98 are not yet available.