Street children

We will create a hotline for the community to report to us about the children being abused around their area. Also, we will be giving tips on how to assists the situation of helping the minor. It is our duty to report the complaint or concerns dealing with the endangerment of adolescents. To seek out minors who needs help…

With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth on the Road and in the Streets by anthropologist Marni Finkelstein, is an ethnography that studies 50 “street kids” between the ages of 15 and 20, living on the streets of East Village, New York, in Tompkins Square Park, during two consecutive summers. Finkelstein chooses to interview homeless kids on their own territory; the streets. To be able to see what they do in their everyday life, see the world as the way they see it, what they have experienced and…

Street children in Brazil have always been a hot topic catching the attention of journalists, photographers, the United Nations and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Although street children come under the umbrella of poor children, the former seems to mobilize more social actors than the latter and attracts more funding. The anthropologist Tobia Hecht presents a very interesting ethnography of street children in his book At Home in the Street, Street Children of Northeast Brazil. Through…

overall situation of street children in Durban and to determine the causes and impact of living on the streets 1.6 THE OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY The objectives arising from the aim of the study are: * To ascertain the push and pull factors that contribute child to live on the street * To explore some of the victimisation and challenges that community children faced on the street * To identify the physical , psychological and consequences of living on the streets * To provide…

million street children in Pakistan, the only home they know is cruel, crowded and concrete. ABSTRACT We see children roaming on streets every day, they usually sell flowers, cloth, copies, toys, polish boots, and some survive on begging. There are 1.2 million children on streets of Pakistan including all the major cities and urban centers. According to UNICEF Street children are children who live on the street including children who live in public places, without their families; children…

Question arises, who are street children? It is beyond the bounds of possibility to describe street children as every soul has different story. However, a considerable number of them have common characteristics, for instance, they are under the age of 18, roads symbolize home for them, they wear unhygienic clothes, etc. They are the result of the society and government that did not expand their hands for them to pull them from hell and to place them on the route of paradise. Due to many problems…

would be like trying to teach an old dog new tricks. In this time period, education is the key to unlocking their greatest potential. Young children who receive the right support and encouragement arrive to school on their very first day excited to learn. They're ready to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. For many, many years Sesame Street has been here and around…

The reality of street children is seen as a major issue in Latin America, especially because it involves having children worry about their everyday survival. This developing problem is apparent in numerous countries all over the world; but its existence in Brazil and Latin America is mostly focused on. In order to recognize this problem, one must understand what ‘street child’ means and where they come from. The United Nations Children's Fund defines street children as kids who work on roads and…

running away. Young people also desire autonomy. For many street children, freedom from adult control is the most important attribute of their adopted way of life (Scharf et al., 1986). Street children who experience harsh social conditions and broken family relations tend to have behavioral problems. They seek alternative ways to fulfill their needs, by running away from their homes. Pringle (1974) grouped the psychosocial needs of children into four main areas: i) the need for love and…

have ADHD”. The problem is there are children being overmedicated for ADHD.According to The Center for Disease Control some symptoms that the child had ADHD are: they day dream,they lose things,they squirm or fidget, talk a lot, make careless mistakes, have trouble taking turns, and have trouble getting along with others. Children are being overmedicated for ADHD because their doctors think the children have ADHD when the children really don 't have ADHD. Children are being overmedicated for…