Trajetória do Movimento Nacional de Meninos e Meninas de Rua no Recife na década de 1980

Abstract

The National Movement of Boys and Girls of the Street (Movimento Nacional de Meninos e Meninas de Rua - MNMMR) is a non-governmental organization founded in 1985, made up of militants and social educators who articulate themselves politically in defense of the rights of children and adolescents who experience different forms of abandonment. The objective of this work is to analyze the Movement 's trajectory and its performance in the city of Recife in the 1980' s, its educational practices and its role in the struggle for the promulgation of the Child and Adolescent Statute (Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente - ECA). The cataloging and analysis of documents and publications of the MNMMR allowed the construction of a narrative about its birth, its organization and its atuation at city of Recife in the 1980s. The study of exposure publications and especially the newspaper O Grito de Meninos e Meninas de Rua, a periodical constructed by children and adolescents together with educators of the Movement in Recife, from August 1988, provided an analysis of characteristics of educational practices and the participation of boys and girls in claiming the demands and denunciations of violence made by the Movement.