EDUCATORS OF STREET ... AND QUALITY OF LIFE

The pilgrimage to a kid in the street starts at the age of 7 or 8 years is a path full of crossroads possible that social and personal circumstances will determine RIEF. Possible wrong branches of this path will lead to the world of marginalization and maladjustment.

When the child is starting this walk, we propose Street Educators intervene on the basis of a precautionary approach, but understanding the intervention in the sense of quality of life.

The goal is not to prevent maladjusted behavior and its consequences for the social system, but to provide the individual with a sufficiently satisfactory

factory for they can develop their individual capacities.

It seeks to enhance the individual at risk of marginalization, as a subject in the first place of rights and duties later.

It tries to intervene on the individual when it is still a subject at risk and, if not when maladaptive behavior poses a threat. When this happens, the legal system involved labeling the boy, putting it in a spiral of trouble and bad experiences that will leave a deep mark on his personality. The mark as a criminal, vicious, barbaric, responsible for evil in the world, dregs of society, filth, ... and so sweet, playful and innocent boy of 7 or 8 years will be abandoned and condemned by those who one day promised to defend their Rights of the Child.

Not many years ago the street was a place to learn with friends from the neighborhood, where purchasing unforgettable experiences, along with school and family, were our personality. At that time, the streets did not pose danger. People did not lock the car nor were radio-fashionable removable cassettes. The street was a stimulant to our independent education, to make friends and share adventures and misadventures. They were not fashionable street educators.

The street to the kids in some neighborhoods, and not a place to explore and experience this adventure. Rather, it is sometimes a place to learn to be criminal.

In the 70's is appearing in La Rioja Spain, and Barcelona, ​​the first street educators. His work emerges as an extension of the educational role of the family and school, but the "students of the street? are those that just do not go to school too often and not have a family to care for them, they want to protect them.

Sometimes home is no "hard feelings? or spend even hunger and school "hobby takes them? for his antics, bad manners and "lack of education?. However, in the street are others like them and some fun and exciting occupations, even dangerous. Often find an organized gang, where the chief or leader directs the group with some justice aggressiveness and survival in the concrete jungle. Its most common approach consists to schools to get some friends or other children, the shows and parties, bars with slot machines, department stores, where appropriate some trifle, and so on. When you do something Older begin the game with alcohol and other drugs, later moving to the fiddle and theft, which inevitably will lead the juvenile court or jail if they are over 18 years.

A street workers were charged with the task of working with these kids to stop this way of excesses lead them to jail and almost consequently, to a spiral of violence and marginalization if we'd be no difficulty. First make a study of the area, and by any rationale, approach the group of kids and earn their trust. After. If this is the case, explain their work and why they do. From here opens a path of progress and setbacks difficult if not end in rupture, which occurs soon begin to bear fruit-positive. Most of them end up in jail and that this occurs is then reintegration easier.

One task of such vocational and social importance of this can not be ignored as the Administration, in practice, is one of the few that directly affect the specific prevention of crime in neighborhoods and everyone concerned, as the surveys.