175 homeless children in Kosovo: Pristina gives only one of them seven solutions

The center is designed to reduce the risks and abuses posed to this category of children.

Pristina Mayor Shpend Ahmeti said that through this centre, the possibility that marginalised children will realise their dreams is being provided.

He said the Centre for Treating Children in Road Situations currently has the capacity for 25 children in the daily stance, but expressed readiness to expand capacities depending on the requirements.

This means that one out of seven homeless children will have the opportunity to be treated at this center, as a census for children on the street last year has been identified by 175 children in a street situation.

The director of “Terre des hommes (Tdh)” in Kosovo, Florina Sefaj, said this centre aims to help children in the street situation by trying to prevent the risks children face during their stay on the road.

Sefaj said this centre met the necessary conditions until it stressed that on the basis of a census conducted last year for children on the street, 175 children have been identified in a street situation.

Switzerland's ambassador to Kosovo, Jean-Hubert Lebet, as he expressed happiness that even in Kosovo there is already such a centre, the Swiss state's readiness for continued co-operation.

At this inauguration of the downtown children's street situations some of the children who are part of the center through a performance called on the children not to work.