giới thiệu đến bạn IELTS Academic Reading Sample 161 - Micro-Enterprise Credit for Street Youth nhằm giúp các bạn có tài liệu ôn tập, luyện tập nhằm nắm vững được những kiến thức, kĩ năng cơ bản, đồng thời vận dụng kiến thức để giải các bài tập đề thi một cách thuận lợi. Chúc các bạn thi tốt! | You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 161 below. Micro-Enterprise Credit for Street Youth quot I am from a large poor family and for many years we have done without breakfast. Ever since I joined the Street Kids International program I have been able to buy my family sugar and buns for breakfast. I have also bought myself decent second-hand clothes and shoes. quot Doreen Soko quot We ve had business experience. Now I m confident to expand what we ve been doing. I ve learnt cash management and the way of keeping money so we save for re-investment. Now business is a part of our lives. As well we didn t know each other before now we ve made new friends. quot Fan Kaoma Participants in the Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative Program Zambia Introduction Although small-scale business training and credit programs have become more common throughout the world relatively little attention has been paid to the need to direct such opportunities to young people. Even less attention has been paid to children living on the street or in difficult circumstances. Over the past nine years Street Kids International . has been working with partner 3 organisations in Africa Latin America and India to support the economic lives of street children. The purpose of this paper is to share some of the lessons . and our partners have learned. ZIM ACADEMY Room 2501 Ocean Group Building 19 Nguyen Trai Thanh Xuan Dist Hanoi Background Typically children do not end up on the streets due to a single cause but to a combination of factors a dearth of adequately funded schools the demand for income at home family breakdown and violence. The street may be attractive to children as a place to find adventurous play and money. However it is also a place where some children are exposed with little or no protection to exploitative employment urban crime and abuse. Children who work on the streets are generally involved in unskilled labour-intensive .
