A boy holds a basketball at the Lakou Centre, a UNICEF-assisted foster care facility for street children in the Carrefour Feuille area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Each day about 200 children come to the centre to play and have a safe space to gather.
UNICEF supports the provision of medical and psychosocial support to street children including: HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, treatment, counseling and peer education; reintegration of vulnerable children through schooling and life skills training; and the training of social workers and other facilitators to assist vulnerable children.
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