Dear Madam/Sir,
We invite you to join us, the chorus of people who have decided to act against child homelessness. We are saying: No more homeless children. No sustainable development is possible in a country where thousands of children survive in the street as beggars, where they are denied access to basic education and decent sanitation.

The plight of these children is unbearable and they tend to be forsaken by society. They suffer from terrible diseases and have no support systems attending to them. They are used as black sheep and accused of carrying infectious illnesses in their errands. For society, child homelessness translates into a loss. These children with no education, who are bent towards drug abuse and prone to under-aged criminal activities, represent a burden instead of potentially additional human resources available. Unless we act and turn things around now!

A great event scheduled before the end of this year will bring together various stakeholders from civil society mainly NGOs and other community based organisations. In the programme, a seminar, an exhibition and testimonies of their policies and actions to fight child homelessness.

"L'Enfant a la parole" (The Child is Speaking) do thank you for signing up and to circulate this call too. We do count on you.

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Main text

At the time of globalisation of the economics, considerable wealth have been produced, particularly du to technological progress but those accumulated richness are little or not redistributed. One of the consequences of it is that the gap is digging beetween rich and poor. The homeless children phenomenon keeps growing ceaselessly everywhere in the world with its own cultural and social realities.
In our country, Senegal, this phenomenon wear a particular character. For more than thirty five years numerous associations with humanitarian goals work on the ground, several experiences had been done. By the way, we thank this associative craze wich work at wiping out poverly.
It can't have no durable development in a society in wich thousands of children beg do lack of hygiene and education. The whole society involved must act on various fronts : the authorities, the politics, the populations, the associative area, the economics sector, the artists and sportsmen. The whole society must communicate ceaselessly in order to change the frame of minds and act fast. We are close to those children as if it is a matter of fate whereas we can together change this situation.

Let's act, it's an urgency... No more homeless children !
No more children in rags and barefeet !
A family and rights for every child on earth !

We can feel like we love our continent or our country, but without showing everybody's will to do things fair the refusal of the intolerable any call upon solidarity and love would be a deception.

Mame Faguèye Bâ, Fashion and costum designer