Future in My Hands
Future in my hands has been planned to make children living and working on the street part of social life.
Because children living/working on the street are deprived of these basic rights;
- The right to shelter in a safe environment,
- The right to healthy nutrition,
- The right to access to education,
- Right to follow the children's development process.
Children starting to work on the street at a young age discovers after a while the purchasing power of money and escape from their families or from the places they find shelter (home, nursing home, relatives) because they do want to share this with anyone and become desolate on the streets. The children whom the people thinks that they help by buying paper tissues or simit or letting them shoeshine are exposed outside to unimaginable abuses during the day. Children alienated to society by sometimes outrageous sometimes violent actions choose the method they consider best to bear the actions they are exposed to and stand out of the physical conditions of the environment and begin to use substance. Substance use bringing with permanent disorders and unconscious actions, negatively affects the child's life and bring such unfortunate consequences as death or the child's being put into prison.
Yet, it is the responsibility of all individuals in society to communicate with these children and win them. Well, how do we do it?
- First, we make contact with the child with various tools, in a way appropriate with the level of the age of the child. (Acquaintance Games, etc.)
- We enable the child to know us by including the child the Foundation’s social works.
- In the mean time, preparing a draft report from what children willingly tell, we make a list of question marks over minds and complete the answers of these questions in appropriate times and environments.
- Making a list of issues from the problems of the children, the reports of whom are completed, we create a "BRIDGE" plan, on their behalf, to ensure their inclusion in society.
- Following the “BRIDGE” report containing items ranging from sheltering to education, from employment to rehabilitation, from food aid to family care assistance, we slowly make the children part of the community.
Performing all of these works with volunteers and scholars, the Foundation is waiting for you. A child on the street today may be a symbol of abuse, a head of a family unaware of birth control or responsible for an unconscious action tomorrow. No child we pass by remains where we leave him/her; sooner or later he/she stands before us.
