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\"\"GSI Italia continues its commitment to helping street children in Kinshasa, the Congolese metropolis of over 10 million inhabitants in sub-Saharan Africa.
\nHaving built, just a few years ago, a shelter for street girls in the \u2018commune of Tsangu\u2019, the densely populated shanty town near the Congolese capital\u2019s international airport, GSI Italia returns to Kinshasa with a programme to help street children and young people.
\nOnce again, the partner is the Oseper organisation, part of Don Guanella, the Italian congregation dedicated to serving abandoned children and those with physical and mental disabilities.
\nFrom the Oseper village, every evening for many years now, at 10 pm, two ambulances \u2013 donated to the Congolese association by GSI Italia \u2013 set off to provide night-time assistance to boys and girls in distress on the streets of the capital. One of the two ambulances was donated by the Croce Bianca di Foligno.
\nA year ago, the environmental journalist Francesco De Augustinis, who follows GSI Italia\u2019s work in Africa, outlined the organisation\u2019s activities for the Italian press, tracing the routes of the association\u2019s interventions in the capital and in the South Ubangi region, in the north of the country.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s initiative, led by the Terni-based association Lo Scoiattolo, which specialises in international adoptions, was funded by GSI Italia through the Commission for International Adoptions (CAI), the Italian central authority for international adoptions, established under the Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.
\nGSI\u2019s programme for 2026, starting in May and lasting one year, involves providing food aid for the children, paying their school fees, and training Oseper community workers: educators, nurses, social workers and psychologists.
\nThe children live on the streets for a variety of reasons: orphanhood, having been disowned for witchcraft, or because their families \u2013 very often single-parent households \u2013 are unable to support them. In many cases, the children have no legal identity, as they were never registered at birth.
\nThe project will also work towards securing legal recognition for these children, an essential prerequisite for them to finally become Congolese citizens.<\/p>\n

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