The Juvenile center is located on the outskirts of Yangon and hosts 700 youth, both teenagers and pre-teenagers: near 70% of them have been sent by court for crimes, since robbery to even murder or others major crimes.  The rest are street children sent by other departments.

The center has no jails, armed guards or security controls, anyway it is indeed  a detention center.  Youth are split into 6 sleeping quarters: in 4 of them there youth who committed crimes, remaining 2 hosts street children or youth with other problems. Conditions at the center are really precarious: bedrooms are very tight, beds made by cement while bathrooms need to be repaired.

When we started to work at the center it wasn’t foresee any doctors or psychologist, there wasn’t any kind of school inside the center and only a minimal number of children could attend some educational activities. Thanks to a good collaboration with center’s staff and the director, much progress have been made.