More than 1,000 Sharjah youths need social help
Police fear that hundreds of young people in Sharjah are victims of abuse and deprivation after a new support service was inundated with pleas for help.
A committee for deprived children was formed early last year by Sharjah Police and Sharjah Department of Naturalisation and Residency. It has registered more than 1,000 children in need of social help.
The number was far higher than the committee had expected, Brig Humaid al Hudaid, the director of Sharjah Police, said at a recent committee meeting, which was also attended by Col Dr Abdullah Ali al Sahooh, the director of the naturalisation department. Brig Humaid added that there were increasingly more children being deprived of their rights in the emirate.They include abandoned children, child victims of domestic and sexual violence and abuse, children of mothers in prison and orphans, as well as children from families too poor to provide necessities such as food, education and health care…SOURCE
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