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WORST CITY - La Paz, Bolivia |
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La Paz, Bolivia
Population:
800,000
Worst Feature:
Street children using solvents as a form of escape from their awful lives.
Best Feature:
Organisations such as Toybox seeking
to help.
Look up La Paz on the web and you will find lots of sites where the name is
linked to ‘street children’ – and no wonder for there are estimated to be
10,000 of them, some as young as 3 years old similar patterns exist in other
Bolivian cities. 20% left home because there just wasn’t enough to eat
there. Many other are just abandoned by parents who cannot cope. The
majority though, according to UNICEF, leave because of the violence they
meet at home.
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Witches Market La Paz, Bolivia
- great place to buy dried llama foetuses -
yum yum |
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Jessica Jordan Burton, Miss Bolivia |
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Llama foetuses, La Paz |
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Help street children in
La Paz, Bolivia with
ToyBox
* There are over 2,500 children living on the streets
of major cities such as Cochabamba, La Paz and Santa Cruz.
* UNICEF estimates that 800,000 children work in Bolivia.
* 75% of street children are 12 years old, 25% aged three to 11.
* UNICEF also states 60% of street children left home due to physical
violence.
* 20% left home because there wasn't enough to eat and 20% were abandoned by
their parents.
* 80% of these children inhale "clefa" [glue] and some adolescents are
alcoholics.
* More than 100 post-pubescent young women live in the streets of Cochabamba
without any sex education or advice.
* More than 40 babies live on the streets of Cochabamba.
* Most street children are functionally illiterate because they left school.
They can read and write with difficulty.
* 90% use solvents as a form of escapism.
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