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Welcome to EFSC

The European Foundation for Street Children (EFSC) is a Brussels-based foundation committed on a non-profit basis to the improvement of the rights and situations of children at risk and particularly street children. As a platform for lobbying and advocacy towards the European Union, it provides non-governmental organisations committed to this cause with information and advice concerning all children and youth-related policies and assistance programmes of the EU and facilitates the exchange of best practice between them.

"Thanks to the support from the European Commission through the Progress Programme, we are currently reshaping our website. Our new website is under construction but we are nevertheless continually updating this current website in order to provide you with latest developments on child rights issues. A better structured and more user-friendly website will soon be operational. Thank you for your understanding!"

EFSC gets Commission support via Progress Programme
Network Life and News______________________
In this section, you will find news on latest developments and activities of our Foundation as well as of our partner organisations.
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Advocacy and Policy_________________________________
The European Foundation for Street Children welcomes the inclusion of children’s rights in the internal and external objectives of the new Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe
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Second EU Child Rights Forum: Margarida Barroso asks for specific and targeted measures for street children within a holistic and European approach to overcome the insufficiency of normal social intervention methods

Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe Mrs. de Boer-Buquicchio addressed at the COE Spring Session held on 27.03.2007 the problem of street children in Europe and calls for adequate measures to protect them. EFSC will co-operate with the Council of Europe in drafting a Study on successful projects on the re-integration of street children carried out by its member organisations jointly with different municipalities in Europe.
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"Romania's tunnel children" reported by Gavin Hewitt, dated 7 February on the BBC website
BBC shocking report on the situation of street children who are living next to underground heating pipes in Bucharest. This is just one, though extreme example of the living conditions faced by street children in other European capitals
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Tallinn Centre for Children at Risk, UNICEF Estonian National Committee and Estonian Union for Child Welfare condemn the message of SEB Eesti Ühispank campaign "Help the street child!" "EFSC supports the UNICEF calls for EU help on Roma children. In particular, UNICEF confirms that the percentage of Roma children not attending school are 60-80 percent in Bulgaria and Romania, where the situation is getting worse in spite of their accession to the EU".
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The European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security elaborates on the European Strategy on the Rights of the Child at the meeting of First Ladies in Paris on 17 January 2007 and outlines a new Commission initiative on missing children in Europe.
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European Conference on Children and Migration in Warsaw, Poland on 20-21 March 2007
The conference aims to create a meeting arena for researchers from Universities, Non-Governmental Organisations