1. Overview
The problem of street children is found in nearly every part of the world. Homeless street children, spend day and night in the streets, no one to look after them, are without shelter, usually do not survive in petty jobs, become beggars or sexual abuse and other social sins.
They live in abandoned buildings, parks, car garages, workshops and under the open sky. They are deprived of family care and protection. They can not process this society and become a liability instead of an asset. A lack of education, from which the labor force that has no future. Mostly these are teenagers, but some smaller than in the seven years to twelve years.
2. Reasons
There can be many reasons for this problem. These include;
- Rampant poverty
- domestic violence
- Family breakdown,
- orphans
- The armed conflicts
- Displacement
- famine
- natural disasters
- Physical and sexual abuse
- Exploitation adults
- of urbanization and congestion,
- acculturation
- diseases and others.
For these reasons, children are subject to neglect, abuse, exploitation, and sometimes even murder. Moving to cities to find work in order to survive. They feel scared and helpless. They can not even save themselves from the cruelty weather and lack of access to medicine if you fall ill. After the unskilled, the education and skills necessary to adjust to the society, split off and end up on the streets.
3. Categories
street children is primarily found in two categories. The one that will be kind of a bully or those who learn to survive also means illegal civilized society. They end up doing criminal or unethical activities. Their activities vary from picking pockets against vandalism, theft, dacoity, rape, murder, child trafficking from dealing drugs. They become a protege of gangsters, police face torture and sometimes become violent with strangers.
It all begins with the basic instinct of survival. A street kid will do anything to survive. He will be the first party illegal, but would do it if he is hard-pressed to do so. Since illiterate and non-vocational training, they are facing difficulties in finding a suitable job. Also, public opinion overwhelmingly negative views about them. The public holds them with suspicion and fear while many people want them to disappear. Street children are victims of illegal activities, sometimes in response to the above-mentioned discretionary attitude of them and sometimes in order to maintain themselves.
Many of these types of street children become juvenile offenders and find a place in the overcrowded prisons. There is every chance of becoming hardened criminals. Even under fellow street children to do the bidding. Some become members of street gangs, drug mafia and child trafficking rackets. They form their own pressure groups. They exploit and manipulate the stronger man than private business entrepreneurs, civilians, law enforcement personnel and security forces.
street children in the second group are those who have become victims of their peers and other man-made problems. They lack tactics, willpower and physical endurance to keep up with the demand for a hard life. These are the most vulnerable to social ills such as physical and sexual violence, torture, exploitation, child trafficking, begging and drugs among others. Girls and boys may be subjected to prostitution or other sexual activity by force, coercion or fraud is lower.
The fourth child trafficking as an example
Child trafficking is a concrete example of these children standing in front of horrors. Victims of child trafficking are mostly in the second category of street children. They are recruited, transported, received and harbored various exploitative purposes. Trafficking in human beings can be so exquisite purposes of forced labor, servitude, slavery and the removal of organs, or it may include such activities as prostitution, sexual exploitation, early marriage, child soldiers and begging. Nations and other NGOs are working continuously prevented this practice. Many governments are also laws to prevent this practice.
Developing countries constitute a source of cheap labor. House maids, shop boys, hotel staff, couriers, delivery boys, babysitters and even servants to see that a pool of cheap labor.
A particular case is that of South Asian children shipped to the Middle East as camel jockeys. These children are considered unhealthy crowded places no or limited access to basic amenities of life. After that, an eye bandaged, and how to ride a camel races. Food and other salaries are tied to their performance in competitions. If the child is not performing well, they may be tortured or kept without food for days.
5. The main problems facing street children
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a big problem, these children;
- Hunger
- Diseases
- Solitude
- delay
- uncleanness
- prostitution
- violence
- slavery
- Child trafficking and
- abuse
These problems are mostly which the street children, but to eliminate these problems effectively we have to solve some important problems first. These include;
- illiteracy,
- Professional training
- setting up help in the future
- Sense of Alienation and
- lack of love
6. Some work
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