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	STREET CHILDREN IN GABORONE BOTSWANA
		This issue of children's future was already touched on during the first phase of the Programme through a study on the rehabiliation of street children in a french speaking country (Congo).
		These children are not at school and are separated from the home for the most part of the day with the result that they are deprived of parental care and guidance in their formative years.
		It is evident from the field that parents' views on the factors which influenced their children's decision to be on the streets are somewhat inconsistent with those of the street children.
	www.uaps.org /Rapports/street.htm (4051 words)

	Who are the Street Children?
		Broadly, street children are those for whom the street (in the widest sense of the word: unoccupied dwellings, wasteland, doorways, sewers…) more than their family, has become their real home, a situation in which there is no protection, supervision, or direction from responsible adults.
		“Children of the streets” are those whose ties with family are completely broken and who are completely alone, without support (even the support of extended family, step-family, or god parents) and must struggle for daily survival.
		The street children that we have worked with have told us that it is impossible to survive in the streets without using drugs such as terokal (a toxic glue used for shoes), crack, and cocaine.
	www.streetchildinternational.org /WhoAreTheStreetChildren/default.asp (647 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Street Children
		Street children throughout the world are subjected to physical abuse by police or have been murdered outright, as governments treat them as a blight to be eradicated-rather than as children to be nurtured and protected.
		Street children also make up a large proportion of the children who enter criminal justice systems and are committed finally to correctional institutions (prisons) that are euphemistically called schools, often without due process.
		With the exception of the massive killings of street children in Brazil and Colombia, often by police, which Human Rights Watch reported in 1994, very little attention has been paid to the constant police violence and abuse from which many children suffer.
	www.hrw.org /children/street.htm (701 words)

	Working with Street Children in Nepal
		Street children can be defined in various categories on the basis of the amount of time spent on the street, the job they take up for a living and their personal and family background.
		If these children, who are deprived of love, care, education, health care and other fundamental children's rights and are compelled to live a struggling life in the streets, are treated with compassion and understanding, there are a lot of possibilities of reforming and developing them into able citizens.
		Street children are among the high risk and insecured groups and vulnerable to various forms of exploitation and abuses.
	www.cwin.org.np /resources/issues/street_children.htm (1861 words)

	Toybox - Why there are street children - toybox.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Street children are likely to have come from areas of poor housing, with little access to running water or adequate sanitation.
		Often these are children who come from high-risk areas and who have been spending the majority of their days on the streets.
		Drug addiction - children who spend most of their time of the streets may be encouraged by the street children to try glue sniffing or other drugs.
	www.toyboxcharity.org.uk /street_children.html (415 words)

	CHILDREN IN THE STREETS OF BRAZIL
		The use of the street as a place to live and/or work is not unknown to most industrial economies, but the presence of vast numbers of unsupervised and unprotected children is a phenomenon that is visible only in developing nations, and particularly in Latin America (Rizzini and Lusk, 1995; Lusk, 1989).
		Street studies in Rio de Janeiro have concluded that a "second shift" of children are visible on the streets at night.
		Because street children are seen as having been harmed by their environments, hundreds of church and voluntary programs have been organized in their behalf.
	www.udel.edu /butzin/articles/child.html (7694 words)

	Street Children in Cambodia
		All these factors have lead to an increase of the urban migration and, therefore, to an increase in the population of street children and their families.
		Depending on the definition and according to the figures accepted by UNICEF, there are between 600 to 1,000 street children who have completely cut ties with their families and have made the streets their home and 10,000 street children who have kept ties with their family and return home either regularly or irregularly.
		For its work, Friends has adopted the wide definition of street children (children who spend most of their time on the streets, returning or not to a family setting on a regular or irregular basis).
	www.streetfriends.org /CONTENT/background/children_in_cambodia.html (518 words)

	Children in the Street
		This committee was created to give our children in and on the streets an opportunity to obtain a good life and become responsible men and women in the community.
		We have "street workers" who are professional teachers and psycologists, and whose job it is to be a friend to these children in their own environment.
		The children in the public schools and in our little school need materials, uniforms, shoes, socks, etc., in addition to a basket of food (bi-monthly or monthly, depending on the size of the family) so that child will not be back on the street to work.
	www.honduras.com /children (834 words)

	Street children - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These children are homeless as a result of the policies of former Communist ruler Nicolae Ceauşescu, who forbade contraception in the hopes of ruling a populous nation, or of his successors, who consider the economy of greater importance than social welfare.
		Street children are subject to malnutrition, hunger, health problems, substance abuse, theft, CSE, harassment by the city police and railway authorities, as well as physical and sexual abuse.
		First and foremost is to ensure that, the children who are 'trapped' on the streets have an access to their rights and possibility of availing basic amenities like food, clothing, shelter, education and viable and sustainable career option on the long run.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Street_children (941 words)

	Street Children Project
		The street children project is a personal effort of a group of young professionals in Singapore, working together with the Salesians of Don Bosco, Trivandrum, in the care, protection, development and rehabilitation of street children, child labourers, slum children and youth in difficult and special circumstances.
		To prevent children from the slum area dropping out from school and become wanderers on the street, the project also extends its efforts in the educational and development work the poor of the neighbourhood.
		Such events also provide opportunities for children and adults to participate in baking, and selling of various items, where all proceeds are for the street children's fund.
	www.geocities.com /streetchildrenproject (221 words)

	BBC News \| HEALTH \| Street children surprisingly healthy
		The rapid increase in the number of homeless children in cities in the developing world is a matter of grave concern.
		They found that homeless children who lived in urban were in better health, and had a better chance of survival than children from stable homes in agricultural villages.
		The researchers examined 51 street children aged from 5 to15 who were associated with a street school in a highland city in Guatemala.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/1920570.stm (406 words)

	About Street Children - Childhope Asia Philippines
		Street children are young people who spend a considerable time living and/or working on the streets of the world’s cities.
		Street children usually come from large families, with six to ten children per family.
		Street children are prone to street fights and bullying from bigger youth, harassment from policemen, suspicion and arrest for petty crimes, abuse and torture from misguided authorities.
	www.childhope.org.ph /about-street-children.html (181 words)

	Street children Statistics, StreetKids.net a ministry of Street Kids for Christ, links to organizations that rescue and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Street children Statistics, StreetKids.net a ministry of Street Kids for Christ, links to organizations that rescue and help children on city streets around the world.
		At least 100 million children worldwide are believed to live at least part of the time on the streets.
		According to a 'Crisis' report half of the beggars on our streets spent their childhood in care and a quarter slept on the streets before they were 16.
	www.streetkids.net /info (812 words)

	World Vision Australia - Connect - Street children
		There are street children in both rich and poor countries all around the world.
		Street children don’t live with their family, are not in school and have no official person or institution to care for them.
		Children may be lured by the prospect of a more exciting life in the city or a chance to earn money.
	www.worldvision.com.au /wvconnect/content.asp?topicID=73 (670 words)

	Street Children in the Philippines
		These are the singing voices of the Street Kids Choir - a small assembly of street children chanting tunes about love, hope, and yes, Christmas.
		From the dirty streets of Manila, they found a home at the Kaibigan Ermita Outreach Foundation Center, a non-profit organization established in 1986 by a group of kind-hearted Canadians headed by Alain Pronovost.
		Driven to the streets by parental neglect and social indifference, they are forced to quit school and resort to scavenging, begging, washing cars, and yes, pick pocketing.
	www.txtmania.com /articles/kids.php (353 words)

	Children's street culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Children's street culture refers to the cumulative culture of rhymes, songs, jokes, taboos, games, folklore, and places (e.g., places "known" to be "haunted" or "a den" or "forbidden"), etc. among young children.
		Children's street culture is invented and largely sustained by children themselves, although it may come to incorporate fragments of media culture and toys in its activities.
		Since the widespread use of the motor car, children's street culture has often been forced to retreat to pavements and backstreets, and into parks and playgrounds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Children's_street_culture (690 words)

	Grim Time for Iraq's Street Children
		Iraqi society attaches a heavy stigma to street children, whether they are orphans or war victims.
		The newly orphaned and deserted children on the streets, said to number at least a few thousand, are objects of scorn.
		About 50 of the 163 children who were there before the war are back, and a call has gone out for men to go to their mosques and arrange marriages with the older girls.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /news/2003/fjun/4_children.html (1148 words)

	bibliography on street children
		Street children: a growing urban tragedy: a report for the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986, 123, [8] p.
		Street and working children: summary report of the Innocenti Global Seminar on working and street children, Florence, Italy, 15-25 February 1993, Florence, Italy: ICDC, 1993, 56 p.
		Who are "street children"?: a hierarchy of street use and appropriate responses, Child Abuse and Neglect, Vol.
	www.geocities.com /joelmermet/streetchildren.html (2195 words)

	Street Children - SOS Children Projects
		In Bogota, the capital of Colombia, the street children are known as “gamines”.
		They hired “death squads” to clean up the streets, and during the 1990s thousands of street children were just murdered.
		Increasing the awareness among women and children that they can actively shape their own lives, and that a life away from the street is possible, is a process of many small steps.
	street-children.org.uk /colombia.htm (415 words)

	Madagascar's undaunted street children.
		Shacks were torn down and the street children were taken off and dumped in a reception centre 50 km outside the city.
		Teenagers on the street have their own children who are left to fend for themselves during the day, when their parents go to work.
		Children swing on the gates at the entrance of Antananarivo’s central park as they wait for passersby.
	www.unesco.org /courier/1999_06/uk/dici/txt1.htm (1570 words)

	News: Great Lakes, Rwanda's street children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The street children are in part the legacy of the 1994 genocide in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred.
		It is currently trying to reunite as many as possible of 3,600 children now living in 25 orphanages across the country with their families.
		And there are many children, particularly girls, who have been forced to assume control of households after parents and other adults lost their lives to Hutu killers during the genocide, or subsequently to AIDS.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6FB3RA?OpenDocument (719 words)

	Street Children Ministry Challenge
		We aim to provide shelter for rag pickers and orphaned children between 5 and 10 years of age, demonstrating and encouraging social skills and hygiene, and enabling them to bathe, rest, play, and wash their clothing.
		Street children represent the end point of a complex set of factors, which require a multitude of resources and efforts to address the problem.
		We also aim to create a movement that will challenge the exploitative situation imposed on the street child, a situation that has sadly robbed children of their right to a joyful safe childhood.
	www.agapeindia.com /street_children_challenge.htm (504 words)

	Every Child Ministries :: Street Children in Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Children who are able to walk spend long, hot days carting cardboard displays of goods for sale between cars at intersections.
		It is evident to all that the children are thrilled to have their very own pastor.
		Most street children are illiterate, but they cling eagerly to the reading and teaching of the Word.
	www.kidsyes.org /streetchildren.htm (585 words)

	Street Children in Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Children decide to live on the street, because home life is not good, they need to find other ways to get food, or they are orphans.
		Before living in the streets, they existed in favellas, the most impoverished of slums, dug in garbage dumps for food, and encountered family violence because of the stress of poverty.
		Street children face serious health problems ranging from malnourishment to lack of sleep, to no healthcare, to exposure to the elements.
	gbgm-umc.org /umw/umwtest/globalhealth-yth/streetchildren.htm (432 words)

	Street children in Mexico
		There are many reasons why children are abandoned and left homeless, such as domestic violence and family breakup, as well as economic migration of the parents to the United States.
		The street child is very prone to abuse and exploitation in these circumstances.
		In addition many children living in the streets have developed problems of substance and drug abuse such as glue sniffing.
	www.mexico-child-link.org /street-children.htm (570 words)

	Street Kids Rescue Prog.
		State sponsored, socialized dental care does not include painkillers such as Novocain, so the children are petrified to go to the dentist.
		Our dream is to have a drop-in center where the children could come to bathe, to eat, to get a change of clothes, medical help, and counseling.
		It is truly amazing that we have been able to do so much over the past few months with our limited resources, and when we see the children responding to our help, we know that we must keep doing this vital work.
	www.vladmission.org /Street_Kids/street_kids.htm (597 words)

	Street Children - Community Children Worldwide Resource Library
		Increasingly, these children are the defenseless victims of brutal violence, sexual exploitation, abject neglect, chemical addiction, and human rights violations.
		This collection of readings is provided for those concerned about protecting and improving the lives of the world's street children-- our community children--and helping them to their full human potential.
		IMPORTANT NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material on Street Children Worldwide is provided as a public service without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
	www.pangaea.org /street_children/kids.htm (326 words)

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