Foreword About this publication Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Ch. 1 Especially Difficult Circumstances 7 Street girls 8 Urban girls at work 12 Commercial sexual exploitation 17 Teenage mothers 21 Identifying needs and programme responses 25 Ch. 2 Income Generation and Vocational Training 29 Case study: Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative (YSEI), Street Kids International (SKI); Zambia 30 Case history: Profile of three participants of the Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative 34 Model programme: Servol Life Centres: Education for life and work; Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies 36 Model programme: Child Welfare Society of Kenya: Empowering domestic workers 38 Model programme: The SIMMA Vocational Training Institute and the WACAR Foundation: Empowerment of women for better prospects and sustainable development; The Gambia 40 Elements of success: Income generation and vocational training 42 Ch. 3 Formal and Non-formal Education 45 Cause study: Adolescent Mothers Programme of the Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation: A second change for education 46 Case history: Ellorine, from teen mother to nurse: Jamaica 49 Model programme: Enda: Literacy for domestic workers; Dakar, Senegal 50 Model programme: Paaralang Pantao; Children's Laboratory for Drama in Education and The People's School; Manila, The Philippines 51 Elements of success: Formal and non-formal education 54 Ch. 4 Health and Mental Wellbeing 57 Case study: Casa de Passagem: Health outreach by and for girls; Recife, Brazil 58 Case history: Betania, form street girl to mother; Brazil 61 Model programme: Kabalikat, Philippines: Health education for street children and bar workers; Manila, the Philippines 62 Model programme: Undugu Society of Kenya: 'Outward bound' for street girls; Nairobi, Kenya 64 Elements of success: Health and mental wellbeing 65 Ch. 5 Culture 67 Case study: Sasha Bruce Teen Mothers Programme: Rites of passage for African-American girls; Washington, DC, USA 68 Model programme: FACT: AIDS education through art; Bangkok, Thailand 72 Model programme: African Culture International: Theatre of change, theatre of tradition; Dakar, Senegal 74 Model programme: Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation: Linking the elderly and youth; Manila, the Philippines 75 Elements of success: Culture 76 Ch. 6 Advocacy and Protecting Girls' and Young Women's Rights 79 Model programme: The Kamla Project: Preventing sexual exploitation of girls; Thailand 81 Model programme: ECPAT: Legislation against cross-border sexual exploitation of children; Worldwide network 83 Model programme: Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children: Confronting harmful traditions 85 Model programme: Heart-to-Heart: Preventing sexual abuse among adolescent mothers and their children; Chicago, USA 86 Elements of success: Advocacy and rights 88 Ch. 7 Involving Boys and Men in Efforts to Improve Young Women's Lives 91 Reflections on working with adolescent boys in the reproductive-health field 92 Reflections on involving men in the prevention of domestic violence 94 Programme examples in working with adolescent boys 95 Case study: The experience of SIDH in India 95 Case study: ECOS's experience in Brazil 95 Case study: The experience of the Ounce of Prevention Fund in the USA 96 Lessons learned from work with adolescent males in gender equity 97 Ch.
8 Conclusions 101 Advocacy recommendations 101 Service recommendations 103 Looking to the future 106 References and Bibliography 107 Consortium for Street Children-Profile 119 CSC members working with at-risk girls and young women 120.