Challenges Faced by Street Children
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ScribdTranslationsSocial Problem
(Children In Street Situation)
Childhood in street situations
has turned into a problem
social that, forced to fend for themselves
for themselves, they suffer the
effects of poverty, hunger, and the disintegration of the
families; are often easy victims of abuse,
negligence and exploitation, sometimes they are even
murdered.
The so-called street children are in serious danger.
to engage in activities that sometimes constitute the only
survival means such as: prostitution, consumption
of drugs and various forms of criminal behavior.
There are several reasons why a child must or decides
living on the street. The combination of family factors,
economic, social, and political factors play an important role
in their situation and, therefore, it is very difficult to point out
determinately one or more causes however the
family, poverty, abuse or war, among others, are
frequently the reasons to go out to the streets.
Growing up in an environment generally considered as
dangerous, street children face a large number of
problems. As a consequence, some of your rights
are often compromised such as:
Right to food
Street children often do not
they have access to a healthy diet
not enough. Sometimes, not even
at least they have food, because by living
On the streets, they have no way to produce it, nor do they have money.
to buy it.
Right to health
The health of children who grow up on the streets is
strongly committed. In fact, they do not have access to
sanitary facilities and are often dirty and
infested with lice. These children are exposed to
different diseases due to lack of hygiene and, with
frequency, your health is concerning.
Right to education
Street children do not receive
education. For this reason, not
they have the same
opportunities than other children.
In reality, for not being able to
visualize no future for
themselves and for not being able to rely on training
professionals are hindered from finding
employment and change their situation.
Right to non-discrimination
Seen as marginalized, the street youths are, with
frequency, victims of discrimination. Generally, the
adults have prejudices that stigmatize them and,
consequence, they are often associated with dangers
from the streets.
Children in street situations are a symptom of a
society that has serious structural flaws, as well as
the way to solve the problems that arise in the
interior of the homes
Conclusion
The problem of street children depends on their
situation and not of their status. In fact, each child has a
personal story with the street that cannot be
generalized. For this reason, for the care of the children of
the street being efficient has to depend on the different
situations on the streets; in other words, of the various
"profiles of children." It is important to analyze the relationship
that each child has with the street.
In order to better understand the children who live and
they grow in the streets, it is essential to involve them
how to put them in contact with institutions or people
key, that seek to understand the structural causes
about their situation
What concerns us today is to see how all these
structures allow us to develop interventions with the
children, more humanized, who do not forget that the child is
subject of rights and above all a human being like
any other although more vulnerable due to his condition of
child. Knowing that the street child was forced to forge
their subjectivity and identity on the street or in misery, and the
It is a process that is very difficult to reverse. Since they have them
very deep-rooted.