The Senegalese government has tried to remove children from the streets and protect them from mistreatment but its efforts have often suffered from insufficient resources and lack of coordination.
will take what I collect and sell it,” said Ahmadou, who comes from a small village in Gambia and has not seen his family for years. “One time when I didn’t bring back enough money he whipped me so hard I couldn’t lie down properly for a week.”Despite the many problems, officials and activists say that someor respected imams. The schools, whose roots go back hundreds of years, are often held in high esteem, and leaders have graduated from them.provide a free education.
Issa Kouyate, the president of a charity called Maison de la Gare in the northern city of Saint-Louis, said he first saw one of Senegal’s street children being raped in 2009. A middle-aged man fled as he approached, leaving a 10-year-old boy collapsed and crying. “The children who come to us are often sexually abused, have suffered violence and have psychological problems,” Diagne said.based in the Keur Massar suburb of Dakar who is responsible for 100 children, condemned the abusive teachers as charlatans.are a Senegalese tradition, but there are some who exploit the children,” he said, amid a racket of Quranic recitation from pupils in the background.
In 2005, the Senegalese government passed a law prohibiting forced begging, which if violated could result in up to five years in prison. It was implemented in 2010 when sevenwere convicted. They received six-month suspended sentences and a $171 fine each. None went to prison.
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