Children from Afghanistan found in Rome manhole

[bigtree]

Apr 4th, 2009

Italian police inspecting a manhole at a railway station in Rome have discovered 24 children from Afghanistan living in makeshift shelter of cardboard and blankets.

Officials believe the children, whose ages range from 10 to 15, travelled from Afghanistan unaccompanied by their parents, according to news reports Saturday.

It was not immediately clear when the children arrived in Italy, although it appears they may have spent some time in Turkey after leaving their homeland, officials said.

The children shared their living space with over 90 adults at Rome’s Ostiense train station where many of the city’s homeless seek refuge, especially on cold winter nights.


report: http://www.sindhtoday.net/world/83110.htm

[theoldman]

1. A lot of people live in the sewers in Las Vegas.

Some even have furniture.

[sakabatou]

4. Really? In Vegas?

[JTFrog]

7. Yes really.

Vegas even outlawed feeding homeless people in parks until they were ordered by a federal court to stop enforcing that law.

And according to statistics from hud:

16 percent of homeless people in Southern Nevada are employed, 25 percent are veterans, 31 percent are disabled, 33 percent have lived here at least 10 years and 73 percent have at least a high school education.

[MADem]

2. There's an "Underground Railroad" of sorts that goes from Pakistan to Turkey

and points beyond. If you know what you are doing, you can travel that whole distance, mostly on buses, occasionally with people who take you across the very sloppily guarded borders, and never show nor need a passport or papers of any kind.

This is pretty profound, though: During checks this week carried out at the city’s four main railway stations, police identified 95 homeless people, 85 of whom are immigrants.

[aquart]

3. A friend just helped repatriate Afghan refugee children from the last war.

That group ended up in Greece.

[jwirr]

5. Do their parents send them away to be safe? Are these children

like the Iraqi refugees?

[aquart]

6. Yes, they were sent to Greece to be safe. For ten years.

That's not an easy homecoming. She made a documentary of it and it was online at a Greek TV site for a while.