street talk is an opportunity to
discuss a series of topics which affect youth living in poverty
around the
world with field experts who know the issues best.
Interact with
other
people concerned about global issues confronting youth.
street talk learning events:
supporting the rights of street youth
Street Talk is an exciting new series of audio conferences discussing issues confronting youth around the world. The second event looks at the youth rights of children in the Former Soviet Union.
Bindu Dhaliwal interviews Lena Vinogradova of Kazakhstan about effective responses for supporting the rights of street youth as they face the challenges of migration and accessing the informal economy in the Former Soviet Union.
Below find Lena and Bindu's bios to learn more about their backgrounds.
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Lena Vinogradova completed her education to be a mining engineer in 1986 and spent 8 years as a field geologist in the high mountains of south-east Kazakhstan. During the time of economic transition in the former Soviet Union, Lena had to change her profession and became a high school teacher, responsible for Geography and English. It was at this time she realized the potential of young people. In 1999, with her colleague, Alexey Mitin, she established the community development center Accord offering development programs that helped citizens and communities in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
In 2000, Lena was introduced to Street Kids International and quickly became an exceptional facilitator, central to the organization’s work in the region. Together, Accord and Street Kids have launched programming in health and livelihood throughout Central Asia using Street Kids’ health and business tools. Accord, now extremely established in the region, also provides management training and consulting services to corporations.
Bindu Dhaliwal is a member of the Board of Directors of Street Kids International. For the last 15 years she has been active member of the NGO community in Toronto. Her previous work has focused on issues of gender, race and class. She is co-author of Challenge the Assumptions, a resources guide on the issues faced by Canadian young women. While she is presently working as a lawyer, in her previous life she was a program coordinator with an national Canadian youth organization for 5 years, where that worked with youth at risk to develop educational/training materials on various issues including: the environments, sexual health, self-esteem and anti-racism.
