Cape Town is keeping it's street children out of sight and out of mind for Soccer World Cup in 2010 with the children undergoing (COMPULSORY?) performing arts training.
Under Cape Town's Second Chance initiative, street children will undergo performing arts training from groups including the Zip Zap Circus School and the Cape Dance Company.
"This is one of many programmes we have designed to break the cycle of poverty among street children in Cape Town," said Mansoor Mohamed, executive director for economic, social development and tourism in Cape Town.
He said the project would run throughout the year and be "accelerated" during the World Cup.
In addition, tourists in the Mother City would be discouraged from dishing out cash to beggars.
Instead, Cape Town was developing a programme allowing tourists to buy food or shelter vouchers to hand these out to the needy instead of cash.
Cape Town's chief of special law enforcement services, Rudolph Wiltshire, said 170 new seasonal law enforcement officers would be appointed next month. They would undergo "sensitivity training programmes" to help reintegrate street people back into their communities and their families. He said they had already successfully reintegrated 30 people. - The Sunday Times
"At least Cape Town's homeless kids can dance!"??? WTF!!!????
Under Cape Town's Second Chance initiative, street children will undergo performing arts training from groups including the Zip Zap Circus School and the Cape Dance Company.
"This is one of many programmes we have designed to break the cycle of poverty among street children in Cape Town," said Mansoor Mohamed, executive director for economic, social development and tourism in Cape Town.
He said the project would run throughout the year and be "accelerated" during the World Cup.
In addition, tourists in the Mother City would be discouraged from dishing out cash to beggars.
Instead, Cape Town was developing a programme allowing tourists to buy food or shelter vouchers to hand these out to the needy instead of cash.
Cape Town's chief of special law enforcement services, Rudolph Wiltshire, said 170 new seasonal law enforcement officers would be appointed next month. They would undergo "sensitivity training programmes" to help reintegrate street people back into their communities and their families. He said they had already successfully reintegrated 30 people. - The Sunday Times
"At least Cape Town's homeless kids can dance!"??? WTF!!!????
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