Street children taught about AIDS

Street children taught about AIDS

SEMARANG: The Central Java branch of the Indonesian Family
Planning Association is teaching various subjects to street
children such as arithmetic, writing, ethics and the dangers of
the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

Forty-nine street children will be involved in the program
starting February and going through to December this year, Antara
on Monday quoted the provincial association director, Farid
Husni, as saying.

He said apart from providing basic education the children
needed to know about sexually transmitted diseases including the
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

The program, which is funded by UNICEF, includes 70 girls.
Farid added street children in the province were estimated to
number 4,000 while before the crisis they reached 3,000.