First street children survey launched in Yemen
The Source: sana'a/ hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 09/05/2010
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Yemen in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) have launched the first comprehensive field survey of street children across the country.
The survey aims at establishing a database over the size of the street children phenomenon which has in the last few years witnessed an increase due to the economic situation and expanding poverty.Executive Director of the survey, being implemented by the Central Organization for Statistics, Ahmed Salem Al-Bashiri said field teams comprising of 315 researchers have already started paying field visits to governorates to collection information from the families about street and working children.
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