The Ministry of Children and Adolescents (MINNA) has increased the monitoring area of the Immediate Response Device – DRI Calle, covering new areas in different cities to provide assistance to minors in street situations.
According to the most recent MINNA report, the DRI Calle device approached a total of 126 children and adolescents in situations of social vulnerability during the last week of octoberincreasing monitoring to 87 foci.
These foci cover the cities of Asunción, Luque, Fernando de la Mora, Mariano Roque Alonso, San Lorenzo, as well as Ñemby and Lambaré where follow-up is also carried out with officials of the institution.
To the Open Center Shelter they were moved 20 children and adolescents in a situation of calland, within the framework of immediate protection. Likewise, at Kuarahy Rese shelter an indigenous girl was transferred who was in a police station in San Lorenzo.
Similarly, through DRI Calle, the transfer of an adolescent from the Comprehensive Care Center-CAI of the Mercado de Abasto to the San Pablo Hospital for a medical consultation, as a girl from the Rosa Virginia Shelter who also consulted in the same hospital.
The Open Center of the Hug Program of the city of Mariano Roque Alonso received 5 children that were found by the DRI in child labor situation. It should be remembered that these spaces offer the food services, school support, recreation and direct carein the open mode, while the parents or guardians work on public roads.
Through a socio-environmental evaluation processa total of 18 children in different situations of vulnerability were transferred back to their homeswhere subsequent periodic monitoring and evaluation by a special team from the Ministry of Children and Adolescents.
A total of 28 reports of different situations of violation of rightsreceived throughl Service 147 Phone Helpwere covered by the DRI Street team for subsequent referral to jurisdictional instances of the Protection System.
