Mehr News reported:
Now, there is about 30,000 children living or working on the streets of the country -- out of an estimated total population of 70 million, social deputy of state Welfare Organization said here on Saturday.
If the necessary budget is funded, several programs for rehabilitating street-working kids will be implemented in 20 parts of the country, seyed Mohammadi said.
The programs including some strategies and tools needed to give street kids around the country the skills and opportunities to make a better life for themselves, would be developed and disseminated by some NGOs.
Only "30,000" street kids? I think it's pretty safe to say that if the Iranians are comfortable releasing this figure, then the actual problem is at least two or three times worse.
ReplyDeleteMarkj - add a zero and double just for the capital city.
ReplyDeleteThe closer number is over 500,000 just in TEHRAN and add to these another 100,000+ abandoned women. These have either been divorced (usually for younger wives or for disobeying the orders of her husband) and thrown out into the street to fend the best they can or women rejected by their own families as too expensive to keep and feed and clothe.
The half million or more census in Tehran has gradually built over the past couple of years as trying to meet the costs of life have risen to where three jobs at the same time may not be enough.
A recent article on AntiMullah.com examines the inability of Islamic Iran's urban populations to afford to buy food.
A tomato omlette now falls into the "food for the rich" as shown on a video from Tehran.
All this poverty and misery at a time of exraordinary oil prices providng enormous windfall profits for the Mullahs.
The half million kids are just in Tehran. To get a coutrnywide figure try to extrapolate this.