THIS YEAR MANY PUPILS WILL REMAIN VICTIM OF BEGGING, INSTEAD OF SITTING IN SCHOOL DESKS
- I am 13 years old ... and do you go to school? ... Yes ... Where? In the social ... It's not a school…So I go there…
Over 20 thousand children do not attend school and 2,000 of them beg every day. Excluded from the educational process they are just the most frequent targets of sexual abuse, pedophilia, trafficking with human beings and organs. The First Children’s Embassy warned that this statistic is from 5 years ago and they fear that the number is much higher. Most of the children who do not go to school are Roma, from the rural areas and poor families.
- There are cases when children leave school because of the social status. They are not properly dressed, they do not have clothes as their peers, so they are ashamed to go to school and leave the school desks. Here the teachers have to work on the acceptance of these children in the schools.
Often there are cases where the child is prevented from going to school because it is the desire and decision of its parent.
- Frequently it happens to girls aged from 10 to 12 years, where parents believe that they were late in the educational process and exactly then they conclude underage marriages ...
One of the ways to return the children to school is a greater responsibility of the institutions in the system through timely information and work with parents as well. Megashi say that punishment is not the model that should encourage parents to enroll their children in the compulsory education, but there should be a system of motivations.