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Urban girls : empowerment in especially difficult circumstances
- Title
- Urban girls : empowerment in especially difficult circumstances / Gary Barker and Felicia Knaul with Neide Cassaniga and Anita Schrader.
- Author
- Barker, Gary (Gary Thomas)
- Publication
- London : Intermediate Technology, 2000.
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- Description
- 135 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- The text focuses on the way in which low-cost programmes can help at-risk girls and young women in four difficult circumstances - street living, domestic servitude, sex work and teenage motherhood - improve their lives. It uses the work of the Consortium for Street Children UK as a case study.
- Subject
- Girls > Social conditions
- Urban women > Social conditions
- Young women > Social conditions
- 71.68 socially handicapped
- Girls > Social conditions
- Urban women > Social conditions
- Young women > Social conditions
- Armoede
- Meisjes
- Steden
- Hulpverlening
- women
- women workers
- social conditions
- girl
- child labour
- nonprofit organization
- urban area
- homeless person
- domestic worker
- prostitution
- pregnancy
- vocational training
- training programme
- income generating activities
- education of women
- health education
- medical care
- mental health
- ethnic group
- cultural factor
- womens rights
- womens organization
- men
- statistical table
- femmes
- travailleuses
- conditions sociales
- jeune fille
- travail des enfants
- organisation sans but lucratif
- zone urbaine
- personne sans abri
- employé de maison
- grossesse
- formation professionnelle
- programme de formation
- activités rémunératrices
- éducation des femmes
- éducation sanitaire
- soins médicaux
- santé mentale
- groupe ethnique
- facteur culturel
- droits de la femme
- organisation féminine
- hommes
- tableau statistique
- mujeres
- trabajadoras
- condiciones sociales
- niña
- trabajo infantil
- organización sin fines de lucro
- zona urbana
- persona sin hogar
- trabajador doméstico
- prostitución
- embarazo
- formación profesional
- programa de formación
- actividades generadoras de ingresos
- educación de la mujer
- educación sanitaria
- asistencia médica
- salud mental
- grupo étnico
- factor cultural
- derechos de la mujer
- organización femenina
- hombres
- cuadros estadísticos
- Brazil
- developed countries
- developing countries
- Gambia
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Philippines
- Senegal
- Thailand
- Trinidad and Tobago
- USA
- Zambia
- Brésil
- pays développés
- pays en développement
- Gambie
- Jamaïque
- Sénégal
- Thaïlande
- Etats-Unis
- Trinité-et-Tobago
- Zambie
- Brasil
- países desarrollados
- países en desarrollo
- Filipinas
- Tailandia
- Estados Unidos
- Trinidad y Tabago
- Genre/Form
- recommendation.
- recommandation.
- recomendación.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Landmark treaties and conventions on women and girls -- The strategic objectives from Section L of the Beijing Platform for Action (1995) -- Why is investing in girls and young women important? -- Especially Difficult Circumstances -- Definition of terms -- Street girls -- Street and working girls: comparison of selected studies 1987-98 -- Urban girls at work -- Commercial sexual exploitation -- Teenage mothers -- Research in Tanzania -- Births to adolescent mothers world-wide (selected countries) -- Identifying needs and programme responses -- Income Generation and Vocational Training -- Case study: Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative (YSEI), Street Kids International (SKI); Zambia -- Case history: Profile of three participants of the Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative -- Model programme: Servol Life Centres: Education for life and work; Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies -- Model programme: Child Welfare Society of Kenya: Empowering domestic workers -- Model programme: The SIMMA Vocational Training Institute and the WACAR Foundation: Empowerment of women for better prospects and sustainable development; The Gambia -- Elements of success: Income generation and vocational training -- Formal and Non-formal Education -- Case study: Adolescent Mothers Programme of the Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation: A second change for education -- Case history: Ellorine, from teen mother to nurse; Jamaica -- Model programme: Enda: Literacy for domestic workers; Dakar, Senegal.
- ISBN
- 1853394750
- 9781853394751
- LCCN
- 00693283
- OCLC
- ocm41465627
- 41465627
- SCSB-1233816
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library