Working with Children on the Streets of Brazil: Politics and Practice Contributor(s): Oliveira, Walter de (Author) |
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ISBN: 0789011549 ISBN-13: 9780789011541 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2001 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Social Work - Social Science | Human Services - Social Science | Children's Studies |
Dewey: 362.74 |
LCCN: 00053867 |
Physical Information: 0.95" H x 6.3" W x 8.76" (1.33 lbs) 264 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Reaffirm your political and spiritual commitment to helping the poor and oppressed!How can teachers and social workers reach the endangered kids who seldom come to school? By going to the streets, where the children live, work, fight, steal, get sick, sell their bodies, and all too often die. Working with Children on the Streets of Brazil is an in-depth study of Brazil's homeless children and the street youthworkers who offer them food, clothing, beds, hope, medical attention, education, and simple respect.The street children of Brazil live in unimaginable poverty and squalor, stealing jewelry or selling their bodies to survive, wandering homeless and untaught, pursued by death squads who clean up the streets by washing them with blood. Yet the street youthworkers interviewed in this moving, powerful book--some inspired by the Catholic Church's Liberation Theology movement, some employed by the government or private agencies--continue their efforts to help and heal these children, often with remarkable success. Their work is widely respected, and their unique viewpoint on serving throwaway children can offer creative solutions for social service workers around the globe.Many of the issues discussed in Working with Children on the Streets of Brazil will be painfully familiar to social service workers everywhere, including:
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