Fars News Agency’s social damage group – Mehdi Amiripour: “The street is a dangerous place for a child, there is no place for a child on the street and any kind of abuse of a child may happen on the street, as long as there is this multi-thousand billion economy on the street floor, that is, until people help these street children. This economy will remain and the children will remain”; These statements Mohammadreza Heydarhaii, head of the office of socially disadvantaged people of the country’s welfare organization It has a direct reference to people not helping street children, children who earn millions of tomans daily but not for themselves. In this regard, we have had a conversation with the head of the Social Victims Affairs Office of the country’s welfare organization, which you can read further details about:
Explaining the functions of social emergency
Fars: As a first question and entering the discussion, please state the functions of social emergency.
What people have heard about social emergency is a program consisting of 4 main sub-programs, in the sense that line 123 of the welfare organization, mobile services, social emergency, crisis intervention center and social service base are the most important programs of this emergency. The base also has the duty to identify the damaged areas by being present in the damaged areas, this base is present at the site as a level 4 emergency and with the connection it has with the local trustees, it performs community-oriented measures that are part of its duties and finally With the help of local people, it makes a way to empower those local people.
One of the actions of the social service base is the door-to-door census in an area, for example, if there is a daughter in harm’s way in a house, or if the father is an addict, or the mother is the head of the family, it identifies and designs an empowerment panel for each of them with the help of local residents. .
After 3 to 5 years, after the site has reached a level of empowerment where they can solve the problems themselves, this group moves out and resettles in another damaged site and does the same. This is one of the levels and functions of our emergency.
Another function of the emergency room is the crisis intervention center, if we look at its medical and hospital model, perhaps it can be considered a pre-hospital emergency, so that if we intervene in an incident that is reported by the 123 line or the police force or The representative of the people to be present, has the duty to take empowerment measures for the target subject and the injured person within 21 days.
If he is going to stay with us for more than that time, the injured person will be referred to the subcategories under the social emergency office, such as our health center. If a girl is exposed to social harm, she is referred to the Health House, if she is a woman whose empowerment model is implemented and does not want to be on the path she was in before, she is placed in the effort house, if a woman is exposed to domestic violence in the home It is kept safe and if the person has gender identity disorder, it is placed in daily services and we serve these people in social emergency.
Report child abuse, wife abuse and elder abuse to this phone number
Fars: What is the function of 123 telephone, please describe this function as well.
123 phone number is active 24/7, without any holidays, and calls in the field of child abuse, spousal abuse, elder abuse, disabled abuse, acute domestic violence and attempted suicide. does, he needs a psychological emergency and should be dealt with quickly, if he threatens to commit suicide or has suicidal thoughts among those around him, our colleagues in the 123 system are ready to give advice and provide basic services.
123 calls 24/7 in the field of child abuse, spousal abuse, elder abuse, disabled abuse, acute domestic violence and attempted suicide.
If necessary, if the caller is on the phone, the person’s life may be in danger, they will appear on the scene and try to help, even if necessary, the person will be separated from the scene of the accident, he will stay with our psychologists and assistants for a while to get the right psychological conditions. achieved, after discharge our system is in place and we don’t leave him, we have follow-up for several months after discharge and we are in regular contact with the person and ask if he has reached normal conditions or not, for example, in the case of spouse abuse, we have to follow up After discharge, we have so that he will not be abused.
250,000 complaints to 123
Fars: What was the total number of calls made to the 123 system and what topics are they mostly dedicated to?
We monitor the total number of calls received by people in the 123 system, every incoming call is recorded in the system, and since the beginning of 1401, 250 thousand people have contacted the 123 system, child abuse and spouse abuse have been at the top of our calls in the 123 system. It definitely needs training. We are here to educate people, that people should not be indifferent in case of child abuse and should definitely call our friends at 123 and if they see a child or wife being abused in their neighborhood, they should definitely call our colleagues. We promise that all the information of the caller It remains safe with us. People should know that these actions prevent more harm to a human being. Definitely, if this amount of child abuse and wife abuse has increased compared to the past, more training is needed.
So far, 250,000 people have contacted the 123 system, child abuse and spouse abuse have been at the top of our calls in the 123 system.
The Law on the Protection of Children and Adolescents has various examples, one of which mentions that if a child or adolescent is abused, support agencies intervene and provide support.
One of the guardian institutions that should help the supporting institutions in the issue of information is the national media and it is the information institutions.
Social emergency needs 150 new vans
Fars: How many vans does the social emergency have? Do you have a shortage in this area?
At present, we have nearly 300 vans in the country, and since the number was small and the necessary resources were not provided, in the past years, there are no cars in the areas to provide customized vans, we bought and served from 150 cars, in addition There are also vans, these cars are at the disposal of the social emergency. The promise given to us by the plan and budget organization is that before the end of this year, a credit for the purchase of 150 new vans will be provided to the welfare organization. done, we hope that the government will also help in providing the credit and that these devices will enter the social emergency before the end of this year.
Street children under the welfare microscope 20 Care center for street children in the country
Fars: Identifying and supporting street children is one of the welfare organization’s policies. How do you identify and support street children?
We have some daily identification and social support centers for children. The Law on the Protection of Children and Adolescents and the Regulation on the Organization of Street Children have tasked the welfare organization to identify and attract children, take basic measures and provide them with social support. Through the social support centers, we have the task of identifying these children on the floor of the streets, directing them to the daily educational support center, creating a personal file, family file, and a worker file for them, who visit the home and design empowerment.
During the visit to the place of residence of the working child, the mother’s living situation is also checked, if she is in need, with the expenses of the welfare organization and introducing her to the technical and professional organization, we will bring her to a level of efficiency that no longer requires the child to work or, for example, in After visiting these same homes, we come to the conclusion that the father is addicted to drugs, we take the father to the addiction treatment center, after becoming an effective person in the family, we establish support for the family so that the child can get off the street. Sometimes we see the family. Currently, he is not qualified to take care of the child and the mother is not available and the father is an addict, we direct the child to care centers for street children.
Currently, we have 20 care centers for street children in the country, support and rehabilitation measures are implemented for the families, after a period of time the child was with us and if the family reaches the level of capability that the child returns to their arms, if we see that the family is qualified No, the child is introduced to our quasi-family centers and they are kept in these centers as children with bad guardians.
80% of street children are citizens
Fars: How many street children have you identified so far and what percentage of them are nationals?
Currently, we have identified 14,500 street children in the country, child laborers are working in underground workshops and other jobs for wages, but these 14,500 are just street children and fake jobs such as fortune-telling, hawking, weight lifting and They are begging. 80% of street children are nationals, some of them are authorized nationals that we can establish support measures for the family, but more than 60% of these nationals are illegal and due to the developments of these days last year, Afghanistan is facing a large amount of immigration. we became They have traveled to Iran from this country. We at the welfare organization as a supportive organization, regardless of the child’s race, color and ethnicity, we see the child as a child and take protective measures.
We have identified 14,500 street children in the country, 80% of street children are nationals
Why don’t street children cross the border?
Fars: Has there been an attempt to cross the border of the children of the street citizens?
Of course, the task of rejecting the children of unauthorized nationals is the responsibility of the Department of Foreign Nationals and Immigrants, but recently, according to the developments in Afghanistan, border rejection is not on the agenda at the moment, when we identify and absorb the child, in many cases the families are not available, because They feel that there is a danger of crossing the border and they hide themselves, according to the law I cannot cross the border without a guardian. The law allows the child to cross the border with his family if he is a criminal.
In many cases, nearly 90% of street children have families who have migrated with the family, but since there is fear of the border, the family is afraid and does not come to us. With the identification measures taken, the families come to us and promise not to send the child to the street again, and the child is discharged with the court order.
Gangs play a role in bringing children to the streets!
Fars: How do you evaluate the role of gangs in employing children as street workers?
The role of gangs in bringing children to the streets to work is also not without influence, to completely deny that there are no gangs in the country is completely wrong, after all, there are gangs in the country, to say that all children work on the street are under the control of a gang. Is wrong.
The role of gangs in bringing children to the streets for work is not insignificant, to completely deny that there are no gangs in the country is completely wrong.
There are gangs of street children, but in a limited way, they use 50 to 60 children. And maybe if you pay close attention, there is one of his parents working near that child.
Multi-thousand billion economy on the street floor/don’t help these children
Fars: Last word…
The street is a dangerous place for a child, there is no place for a child on the street, and any kind of abuse of a child may happen on the street, whether it is in cases of drug distribution, sexual assault, etc., it may happen to a child.
As long as this multi-thousand billion economy exists on the floor of the street, that is, as long as people help these street children in any way, this economy will remain and the children will remain on the street, the full capacity of support institutions such as welfare and associations should come to work. Instead of helping these children, it is better for people to help supporting institutions and organizations. These children take the least share in our financial aid to them. If they return to their parents with 100 thousand one day, you can be sure that they will get 300 thousand tomans from them the next day. They want, and even more hours remain to earn more money, and the following days these hours and money increase, and this is hitting the child’s future.
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