Children living in the street. How could we help?

Children living in the street. How could we help?

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It is estimated that worldwide there are about 120 million children living in the street (30 million in Africa, 30 million in Asia and 60 million in South America). In addition, these children are often victims of all types of abuse.

What is a child of the street?

They are less that they live (or survive) in the streets. Often they grow in public landfills, stations of train or under the bridges of large cities. By the conflicts which have with their families, these children do not want to or cannot return home.

Why a child lives on the street?

There are several reasons why a child should be or decide to live on the street. The combination of family, economic, social and political factors plays an important role in your situation and, therefore, it is very difficult to point out a decisive one or more causes.

Children who have wondered, however, claim that the family, poverty, abuse or war, among others, are frequently reasons to go to the streets.

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Are problems the children on the street?

Growing up in an environment generally considered as dangerous, lI street children face a large number of problems.

As a result, some of their rights are frequently committed:

Right to food

The street children often do not have access to a healthy diet not enough. Sometimes, they don't even have food, because they don't have to live in the streets how to produce it, nor do they have money to buy it.

In addition, these children do not have the benefits of a balanced diet: eat what they find. Sometimes, when they have the opportunity to choose, leaning by some healthy foods such as ice cream and cakes, in such a way that they are at risk of malnutrition. The problems of growth are also common among these children.

Right to health

The health of children growing up in the streets is strongly committed. In fact, they have no access to sanitary facilities and are often dirty and lice-infested.

These children are exposed to various diseases due to lack of hygiene and, often, their health is worrying. Without a family who take care of them, these children must take care of themselves.

In addition, the street children often consume cannabis or alcohol, or inhaled natural gas to escape from his reality.

Unfortunately, these harsh living conditions have a negative impact, not only in their physical and psychological development, but also in cultural and economic development.

Right to education

The street children receive no education. For this reason, they do not have the same opportunities as other children. In fact, not visualize any future for themselves and not relying on vocational training, disabled persons are to find employment and to change their situation.

Right to non-discrimination

Seen as marginal, street youth are often victims of discrimination. Usually, adults have prejudice that stigmatize them and, in consequence, often associated with the dangers of the streets. It is often these children difficult to reintegrate into society.

What can you do to help the street kids?

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The problem of street children depends on your situation and not their status. In fact, each child has a personal history with the street that can not be generalized. Therefore to make efficient care of street children it has to depend on the different situations of the streets; in other words, of the various "profiles of the children". It is important to analyze the relationship each child has with the street.

Aiming to better understand children that live and grow in the streets, it is essential to both make them participate as put you in touch with institutions or key people, seeking to understand the structural causes of their situation.

In Venezuela as in Latin America there are too many children on the streets. I would like to hear from you solutions to this problem and what politics or ideas have worked in their countries to combat this evil.

God bless you.