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Police round-ups continue during the Street Child World Cup

On Wednesday morning Durban's Metro police continued to round-up street children. Despite the positive impact of the Street Child World Cup taking place, the seriousness of the issue facing Durban's street children is brought home. Watch this short film opposite. Read the latest on the SCWC site: www.streetchildworldcup.org

A report last month in South Africa's Sunday Times highlights how Durban's Metro Police are forcibly removing them from the centre of the city and dumping them on the outskirts, busy freeways or at unregistered shelters with no supervision or social workers support.

Welcome to Durban 2010: The Deloitte Street Child World Cup

"Once you see them as children, and you see them doing art, you see them as humans again"(John Wroe, SCWC arts team). Day Five is a rest day from the football at the Street Child World Cup, but today's film explores how the arts is helping to change the way people perceive street children.

As one of the founding members of the SCWC, and a long-term partner of hosts Umthombo Street Children, Nick Turner, co-director of Street Action will be in Durban supporting the event, blogging and tweeting as well as posting a daily three minute film of the highlights from the days events.

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  • Check our new video out -- NEW GENERATION VILLAGE APPEAL http://t.co/36FN056 via @youtube
  • @JoeWalkerUK Tom Hewitt of @umthombodurban speaking on winning the campaign against round-ups of street children in Durban, SA. #gb10
  • Bulelwa Ngantweni Hewitt, co-founder of #Umthombo in conversation with BBC Radio 2's Simon Mayo. #gb10

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