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The Minister of Good Governance and Child Protection, Mrs. Ndèye Ramatoulaye Guèye Diop closed yesterday in Toubacouta, National Child Week. She took the opportunity to recall the important steps taken by the Senegalese government to fight against begging of children, through the effective implementation of the national strategy for the protection of children, modernization and support for "daara".
Message from the Minister of Good Governance and Child Protection, Mrs. Ndèye Ramatoulaye Guèye Diop, on the important measures taken by the Senegalese government to fight against child begging, through the effective implementation of the national strategy for the protection of children, did not fall on deaf ears since the representative of the masters of "daaras", who magnified these efforts of the State, recognized the complexity of the phenomenon of the begging for children who have ended up taking increasingly worrying forms that endanger the safety, health and well-being of children because of exploitation and the resulting abuse.
A real fact that led Minister Ndèye Ramatoulaye Guèye Diop to ask "how can we remain indifferent to these children in rags, miserable, barefoot, exposed to bad weather and other dangers of the street. They suffer physical, psychological, verbal abuse and abuse, kidnapping, murder, among others. " Moreover, studies show that the vast majority of child beggars in Dakar are talibés and that the 95% come from the interior regions of Senegal and neighboring countries. That is to say, she added, especially to the parents, all the risks to which our children are exposed when they are no longer in the hands of their ancestors.
Mrs. Ndèye Ramatoulaye Guèye Diop came back on the painful tragedy in December that hit children in the village of Keur Baka Diaw, in Keur Saloum Diané commune, innocent victims of the fire of their "daara" in Mbour. She dwelt on a number of measures taken by the state to clean up the environment of "daara" and accelerate the abandonment of begging. In any case, the announced measures seem to agree the masters of "daara" of the zone of Toubacouta. The imperative need to reorganize the system emerged in the various interventions.
Attention to be granted to the wards of Betenty
The deputy mayor of Toubacouta, Pape Seydou Djancko, pleaded for the cause of the 50 pupils of the nation, following the tragedy of Betenti caused by the capsizing of a canoe, resulting in the disappearance of several women parties to pick oysters. Their children are still left to their own devices. Although, said the mayor of the locality, carnivals were organized to allow these wards of the nation to have records of civil status. "It is this operation that has delayed the procedure for better care for these orphaned children," as the Minister for Good Governance and Child Protection pointed out, which is currently running the second phase of the plan. of removal of street children
Mohamadou SAGNE
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