Dossier

• 13 March 2004
  AMERICA/BRAZIL In Brazil the child’s “working week” grows with the child: 12 hours for a 5 year old to 37 hours for a 16 year old. Particularly serious problem of domestic work: little girls kept in semi-slavery and often abused. Sao Paulo (Fides Service) - The average working week for children between the ages of 5 and 9 years 12 hours per week, but children between 10 and 13 work 22 hours a week. Adolescents workers aged 16 to 17 do as many as ...
• 13 March 2004
  AFRICA/BENIN - Little girls in Cotonou: education changed the lives of many little girls Cotonou (Fides Service) - The number of little girls at the Baraque Rouge, at the centre of the market in Cotonou in Benin, continues to grow. They are learning to be hairdressers and cooks and the programme is funded by ...
• 5 January 2004
  VATICAN - HEALTH IS A RIGHT DENIED TO MANY AND A CHALLENGE FOR EVANGELISATION. EVERY MISSION HAS ITS BASIC HEALTH CARE CENTRE: FIDES DOSSIER ON CATHOLIC HEALTH CARE Vatican City (Fides Service) – The dossier prepared by Fides wishes to offer readers a picture of the health situation in mission countries where conditions are difficult or tragic. It is precisely in mission territo ...
• 12 December 2003
  TOMORROW FIDES DOSSIER ON TELEVISION IN AFRICA PART TWO Vatican City (Fides Service) – Despite the diffusion of programmes from the West most people in Africa are not reached by foreign cultural influences due to a lack of adequate electricity service in vast areas of the c ...