A Case Study of Migrant Children at Baity Center, Enrolled in Public System Through Civil Society Organisation, Delivering Integrated Services – Arousing Lives - From Dust to Dawn

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DOI: 10.21522/TIJAR.2014.11.03.Art002

Authors : Nuzhat Rafique, Waleed Albarghathi, Rakha Badi, May Abdulwanis, Ahsan Maqbool Ahmad

Abstract:

From “Dust to Dawn” a case study of 10 migrant children, to eastern Libya from Egypt, Syria and Sudan. The stories of six boys and four girl, highlight the efforts and potential of a civil society organisation and its role in bringing these children from extreme vulnerability to the mainstream of public system and realization of their basic right – getting access to education, health, protection, wellbeing, and opportunities to develop to their full potential. This case study is nested in the Baity center “My Home” project, operational research to see the feasibility of a cross sectoral integrated services package for the vulnerable children under one roof. Future Makers, an infant civil society organisation in East Libya, operational since 2011 civil conflict implemented the project. In Libya, like other conflict affected countries, migrants, refugees and IDPs face difficulty in accessing education, health, and protection rights due to multiple factors. During first year, Future makers delivered services to more than 700 children in need through Baity center, extending their services to families in case of gender-based violence and MH issues. Case study elaborates the challenges of young migrant children and restrictive policies in Libya which poses difficulties to them in accessing basic rights. It is also tribute to Future makers who had been able to bring these children out of the dust and showed them a brighter dawn - to look forward to a beautiful future, under the rising sun.

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