Children Living or Working on the Street

Children living and working on the street are some of the most excluded and unprotected in the world. While some are homeless with their families, or return home at night after working on the street, many others are without parental care or a home and have no viable alternatives. This may be the result of family disintegration, conflict, poverty, HIV/AIDS, abuse or neglect. Life on the street exposes children to a myriad of risks and robs them of the safety and comfort that a family environment can offer. 

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Consortium for Street Children and University College Cork, Ireland,

Presents case studies of interventions aimed at preventing street migration. Some emphasis on methods for identifying high-risk groups.

Consortium for Street Children,

A summary of strategies to prevent the migration of children to the streets as presented at a 1999 conference in Ireland.

Iman Bibars,

This paper explores the factors surrounding the lives of children that live on the streets or in institutions in Egypt.

Barbara Brink, UNESCO,

Ideas and country examples on how to create or transform an educational centre for children living and working on the street.

Apt, N.A. and M. Grieco - RESPONSE and UNICEF, Social Administration, Centre for Policy Studies, University of Ghana,

The sections featured in this report provide case studies of 25 street girls and discussion and conclusions based on these case studies.

Nana Apt Van Ham; E. Q., Blavo; S. K. Opoku - Department of Sociology, University of Ghana for the Department of Social Welfare and Save the Children Fund (UK),

The chapters featured in this report offer a prognosis on the future of street children and offers recommendations to government and non-governmental bodies on how to help these children.