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The Indian Association is to send 11 children to India for open heart surgery. The body's Executive Committee Chairman, Naren Mehta, said the children will be leaving on Monday, November 30, for Narayana Hrudalaya Hospital in Bangalore, India, where they will spend three weeks. (AllAfrica)

IN the recent past, concern has been expressed over the conduct and behaviour of the youth and many who have commented on the matter have expressed worry at the immoral behaviour that the young people are falling in. (AllAfrica)

THE just-ended workshop for Organisation of African First Ladies Against HIV and AIDS will go a long way to ensure that maternity protection is used as a preventive and care strategy against mother-to-child transmission of HIV. (AllAfrica)

For most, a father epitomizes love, protection, care, a safe place. But for some, these are the monsters that they wish they could flee from. (AllAfrica)

year-old Shanae Muir disappeared from her Warner Beach home in KwaZulu-Natal on 9 July 2005, the nation was gripped with anxiety and sorrow for her family. (AllAfrica)

The National Forum on Orphans and Vulnerable Children in collaboration with the Department of State for Social Welfare and the World Initiative for Orphans on Monday began a two day consultative workshop on the protection of vulnerable children and children without parental care. (AllAfrica)

A two day national forum on orphans and vulnerable children, organised by world initiative for orphans (WIO), is currently underway at Paradise Suites Hotel. The forum started on Monday 23rd November 2009, with the theme Â'Bridging the gapsÂ'. (AllAfrica)

The Government of Ghana is making frantic efforts to alleviate unemployment, especially among the youth in the country. To this end, the government, through the Ministry of Youth and Sports has rolled-out the 2010 National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) for a massive recruitment drive to further rope in more unemployed youth into the programe. (AllAfrica)

The Agency for the Development of Women and Children (ADWAC), on Friday, observed the Day of the African Child with the theme: Â"Africa fit for children: A call for accelerated actions towards child survivalÂ". (AllAfrica)

The 'Future Youth Development Association' in Farato recently held a massive cleansing exercise at the Farato Health post in western region. The purpose of the cleansing exercise was to ensure a healthy environment within the campus of the post as well as the surrounding areas as the health post plays a major role in creating health for the people of Farato. (AllAfrica)

The Neighborhood watch groups namely: Manjai, Kololi, Bakau, Kerr Sering, and Bijilo in collaboration with the Child protection Alliance (CPA) on Friday 21st November met at the president Awards Scheme to inaugurate and discuss the way forward in avoiding child sex tourism. (AllAfrica)

This is a clear indication of the value the association attaches to young people - Secretary-General (AllAfrica)

THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) last week gave Namibia's Church Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) a huge budgetary boost with a N$9,1 million donation. (AllAfrica)

ZANU PF Youth Minister Saviour Kasukuwere and his MDC Deputy, Thamsanqa Mahlangu, left Harare for Rwanda on Thursday. Mahlangu, who was a guest on our Behind the Headlines programme, told us they were going to the Rwandan capital Kigali on a 'study trip" to learn from that country's experiences and how they dealt with the 1994 genocide and subsequent national healing and reconciliation efforts. (AllAfrica)

The Niger Delta Youth Mirror for Good Governance (NDYMGG) has threatened to stage a mass protest unless the members of the House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Affairs apologise to the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Ubong Ufot Ekaette over their recent "uncomplimentary" remark on him. (AllAfrica)

THE Police have arrested the parents of a 15-year- old boy who was discovered abandoned in a chicken house. (AllAfrica)

Workers living on a farm settlement about 35km from Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, bury their dead children secretly because parents cannot afford to get them to a clinic or hospital in time. (AllAfrica)

The 39th founders' day lecture of the University of Benin held was x Monday marred with protests from students of the institution over the imposition of N5000 on students who paid their school fees late and the poor state of hostel facilities in the school. (AllAfrica)

Management of the Brass Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in Brass Local Government Area (LGA), Bayelsa State is to train 120 youths at the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), while local contractors would boost their knowledge in procurement and contract execution through workshops. (AllAfrica)

Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Salamatu Suleiman, has called on the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and other law enforcement agents, to ensure prompt report of violence against women and children. (AllAfrica)

Ekurhuleni Mayor Ntombi Mekgwe has recommitted to protecting women and children, not only for 16 days but beyond the campaign. (AllAfrica)

The North West Public Safety Department is in a process to develop a Provincial Gender Action Plan which intends reducing sexual offences by 7 percent to 10 percent. (AllAfrica)

Men who get children outside wedlock will have to provide for the children, even if they do not live with the mothers. (AllAfrica)

PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has implored the youths to desist from engaging in activities that quickly fade away their fame saying such acts have in the past ruined the future for many. (AllAfrica)

A group of 22 children, aged about 10 and 11 were freed by Lord's Resistance Army rebels Sunday night. (AllAfrica)

Despite progress in Sudan in the past two years in tackling the problem of children in armed conflict, many challenges remain, ranging from reintegrating child soldiers to dealing with youngsters abducted by the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) who have been brainwashed into killing their own parents, a senior United Nations official said today. (AllAfrica)

UNITED Nations Children's Funds (UNICEF) has lamented the fate of children in the country, stating that the only genuine way of showing commitment towards their protection was passing into law, the Child Right Bill by the various State governments. (AllAfrica)

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, charged members of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) in the state to focus on community-based development projects in their national assignment. (AllAfrica)

The youths constitute the largest percentage in any society. Therefore, they represent the strength of the nation. But this segment of society is faced with several challenges. (AllAfrica)

An applicant, Ameh Joseph, 18, was yesterday arraigned before an Ejigbo Magistrate's Court in Lagos for allegedly defiling an 11-year old girl. Joseph, however, pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge of having canal knowledge of the girl without her consent. (AllAfrica)

Following the resuscitation of five uniformed voluntary organisations in Lagos State public primary and secondary schools early this year, school children have not only been registered as members of these clubs but are already actively participating in their activities and programmes, a development that now enables them to utilise their time and energy usefully and productively. (AllAfrica)

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