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Children's voices
during the Study
 “There is discrimination. For instance, my schoolmates call me “paralised” but I don´t care what they say because it’s not true. I would be paralised if I couldn’t move at all, but I can move my arm.” |  “At school, for example, we are not allowed to express freely what we think. We may have an idea, a suggestion, it may be the first time we speak up… but what we say is not listened to… so we are left traumatised, we are unable to think anymore, we will sit at one side because what we say is not considered important, we are not allowed to express what we wish, what we feel, what we think.” |  “When older children at school hit us, abuse us, steal our lunchbox, and do things to us in the rest rooms, too” |
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 “Violence is hitting your children with a stick, burning them with a ladle that has been heated up on the stove, giving them blows on the head, abusing them by saying things like you’re useless, you’re a clown, you don’t know anything, you’re stupid, using coarse language or verbally abusing them.” |  “Teachers pull our ears, hit us with a ruler or a belt, hit the older children, abuse us, make us kneel on soda lids, send us to pick up stones, kick us.” |  “Violence is when parents take advantage of their children: rather than getting a job themselves, they send their children to wipe windshields to earn an income. They try to outsmart us. Parents take advantage of us and use the money earned by their children to purchase alcohol for themselves, instead of buying food, and they hit their children if they fail to bring in some money.” |
 “I left home because my brother took me out of bed at about two or three in the morning and made me do things that I did not like to do… he offered me to his friends, uncles, strange people… but I really left home on the day my dad tried to abuse me sexually…” |
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