The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Rajshahi

Speakers at a function here on Wednesday said concerted efforts of all government and non-government organisations along with other stakeholders could rehabilitate street children to build them as worthy citizens.

Similarly, community participation along with requisite financial help is very effective to rescue the street children from their vulnerable conditions, as they are the integral part of society, they added.

They said importance should also be given to bring them to the mainstream of society so that they could make themselves skilled for taking part in the nation-building process, they added.

The speakers were addressing a ceremony arranged on the occasion of distributing birth-registration certificates among some rehabilitated street children at Safawang Community Centre hosted by Protection of Children at Risk (PCAR), a project under the Ministry of Social Welfare, in collaboration with its local partner organisation - Assistance for Slum Dwellers (ASD).

Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi Shefaul Karim and silk industrialist Alhaj Sadar Ali addressed the meeting as the chief and the special guest respectively with Divisional Coordinator of PCAR Project Abdus Sobhan in the chair.

They distributed birth registration certificates among 150 rehabilitated street children.

ASD Project Manager Abdul Bari illustrated the objectives and activities of the programme in his address of welcome and said some 70 street children are being rehabilitated and imparted with training on 16 vocational trades.

They observed that various social crimes, including terrorism, bomb blasting, drug-addiction and stealing, could be reduced to a greater extent if the rootless children could be made worthy for beneficial purposes.