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Street Children

The Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children

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Charts	Argentina - Distribution of homeless and street males and females in the City of Buenos Aires
Clippings	Girls of 9 Work as Sex Slaves
Art	Egypt - Painting their feelings, the first published works of street children
At work on the Street	Guatemala - street kids struggle to survive by selling bananas
At work on the Street	Guatemala - street kids struggle to survive scavenging through garbage
At work on the Street	El Salvador – Little boy carrying wood
At work on the Street	Little girl selling flowers
At work on the Street	Little girl selling flowers
At work on the Street	Nepal – girl selling flowers
At work on the Street	Nepal – boys digging and carrying rocks
At work on the Street	Pakistan – ILO estimates 218m child labourers in world and 8 to 10 million child labourers in Pakistan
At work on the Street	Bangladesh - Street children eke out a living in difficult circumstances
At work on the Street	India – hard at work for tourists
At work on the Street	India - Street children making candles at the Apna Ghar night shelter for boys
At work on the Street	Iran - Some 80 percent of street children work for a living
At work on the Street	Iraq - Child beggars are a common sight in the streets of Baghdad. [Image Courtesy: © Afif Sarhan/IRIN]
At work on the Street	Israel - Children such as Younis, 8, do not need a permit to cross Israeli checkpoints. [Image Courtesy: © Tom Spender/IRIN]
At work on the Street	Russia - In Moscow, a boy holds a sign saying: 'Help me. I want to eat.'
At work on the Street	Russia - Sergei boldly steals the wallet of a sleeping man in the St. Petersburg airport. He and other young bandits brag about their bravado and thievery
At work on the Street	Senegal - Beggar children on the streets of Dakar
At work on the Street	Turkey - A quick sandwich before going back to work collecting waste paper and packaging on the streets of Ankara. [Photograph by Rana Mullan © UNICEF Turkey 2003]
At work on the Street	Turkey – Street hawkers. [Photograph by Rana Mullan © UNICEF Turkey 2004]
At work on the Street	Uruguay - Ricardo tries unsuccessfully to sell his cards. Photo by Jenny Smith
At work on the Street	Vietnam - Carrying a bag as big as her body, which contains shoe polish, a brush, some pieces of cloth, and several old sandals, Tham goes through all restaurants and cafes to ask customers if they want their shoes shined
At work on the Street	Yemen - Naif al-Ghuzzy, 11, has been selling newspapers on the busy streets of Sana'a for the past two years - one of up to 15,000 children working the streets of the capital, according to Yemen's government. [Date picture taken: 23/06/2007] Image Courtesy: © David Swanson/IRIN
At work on the Street	Yemen - Child dazed while trying to earn a living on the streets. Photo by Anwar Murghim
At work on the Street	Yemen - Children who work during the day usually are school dropouts or those who didn’t attend school at all. - YT Photo
Home on the Street	Russia - Sergei Mayorov, at age 8, had been alone on the street in St. Petersburg for nearly three years. He insists on smoking American Marlboro cigarettes, which cost the equivalent of two days average Russian wages. He steals or begs to gather money to buy them, then gives them away
Home on the Street	Russia - Sergei: A Loss of Freedom. He is again a helpless little boy as shelter workers give him a bath and check for lice. Sensing a loss of freedom, Sergei refuses to sleep in the shelter for more than a few nights at a time
Home on the Street	Russia - Sergei, 10, doesn't know why his parents drove him out of the house.
Home on the Street	Russia – Street child
Home on the Street	Russia – Street child - British couple Good Samaritans to Russian street kids [Picture from www.storruss.com]
Home on the Street	Russia - Street child emerging from sewer, where he sleeps and lives
Home on the Street	Russia – Preparing dinner
Home on the Street	Russia - Kids getting a square meal from the back of a van
Home on the Street	There are about 2 million street children in Russia. Every summer, this number grows to as many as 4 million.
Home on the Street	Ukraine - One of the 'Street Kids' with the makeshift stove he made himself
Home on the Street	Ukraine – (untitled)
Home on the Street	Ukraine - SEWER DWELLER: Natasha, a pregnant teen whose mother couldn't afford to care for her, is one of some 100,000 homeless children living in the sewers and doorways in Kiev, Ukraine. (KURT VINION)
Home on the Street	Ukraine - Dinner
Home on the Street	Ukraine - Orphans and Street Children Program in Vinogradov
Home on the Street	Ethiopia - Encountering the street kids who live underground is not easy, but once we talked to a few, dozens appeared.
Home on the Street	Yemen - A street child in Sana’a suffering from a deformation due to burning accident
Home on the Street	Yemen - Street children are becoming a daily sight in most Yemeni cities
Home on the Street	Strength in numbers: street lads band together like a family. Photo by Jenny Smith
Home on the Street	Cambodia – boy eats remnants of a lunch box of rice that he found in the trash
Home on the Street	Cambodia – “I need new shoes”
Home on the Street	Guatemala children adapt to survive
Home on the Street	Guatemala - Police and private security guards have been known to beat up and even kill street children
Home on the Street	Guatemala - street kids struggle to survive sleeping in doorways
Home on the Street	Guatemala - street kids struggle to survive abusing inhalants
Home on the Street	Honduras – child eating
Home on the Street	Children eating
Home on the Street	Australia – “I just need someone to talk to”
Home on the Street	Romania – asleep on the street
Home on the Street	India - Indian street children play beside a parked hand rickshaw on a street in Kolkata. [Photo: Deshakalyan Chowdhury / AFP-Getty Images]
Home on the Street	India - At Mumbai's central train station, young boys like this one arrive daily from rural India thinking they will find work in order to send money home
Home on the Street	India – asleep on the street
Home on the Street	India – A time to smile: it's party time for these street girls at an NGO project in Kolkata, India. [Photo: H Davies / Exile Images]
Home on the Street	India – Far from home: Street children at New Delhi Railway Station. [V. Sudershan]
Home on the Street	Nepal – asleep on the street
Home on the Street	Nepal – street child inhaling lokatantral
Home on the Street	Colombia – asleep on the street
Home on the Street	Colombia – sniffing glue
Home on the Street	Colombia - two street children sniffing glue under a poster announcing an extermination campaign © Timothy Ross/JB Pictures, Bogotá, Colombia
Home on the Street	Sniffing glue
Home on the Street	An estimated 1.2 million children are on the streets of Pakistan’s major cities and urban centers,
Home on the Street	Peru – clustering at the Rotary
Home on the Street	Asleep on the street
Home on the Street	Jamaica - A street boy takes a nap on a grave in the St. Andrew Parish Church cemetery, in Half-Way Tree – Photo by Norman Grindley
Home on the Street	Jamaica - Street kids like this little boy are learning anti-social behaviour
Home on the Street	Jamaica - The children are all over the streets and become street children because there's no-one there to care for them. - Olga Heaven, Hibiscus
Home on the Street	Romania - children have made a hot, foul-smelling tunnel their home
Home on the Street	Romania – clustering at night on the street
Home on the Street	Romania – Underground Bucharest
Home on the Street	Romania – Children living in Underground Bucharest
Home on the Street	Turkey – From the film, "Children of Secret," a haunting portrayal of kids surviving on a diet of drugs, donations and theft [Steven Misshula/Special To The Christian Science Monitor]
Home on the Street	Malawi – Misozi, Estere and Zefa are walking along the street near the market in Limbe. Estere is carrying a small, blue plastic bag.
Home on the Street	Moldova – Greeting another day
Home on the Street	Mongolia – keeping warm in the winter
Home on the Street	Mongolia - Three children on the streets of Ulan Bataar [photo by Michael Salguero]
Home on the Street	Morocco - Homeless children comb the main thoroughfares of Rabat and even sleep on the ground
Home on the Street	Sisters
Home on the Street	Sisters
Home on the Street	Nepal - As winter deepens, street children find their daily life deteriorating
Home on the Street	Philippines - Medecins Sans Frontieres operates a program targeting 200 out of an estimated 200,000 children who live on the streets of the capital, Manila – [photo copyright by Roger Job]
Home on the Street	Poster - In America – hungry, cold, lonely, afraid, abused, sick, lost
Home on the Street	Congo (DRC) - A "family" of about 10 children live in Kinshasa's Sayo-Kasavubu cemetery - Photo by KATHERINE ARIE
Home on the Street	Congo (DRC) - Street boys playing at a center for children in Kinshasa. ©2005 Marcus Bleasdale
Home on the Street	Kenya – sniffing glue
Home on the Street	Kenya – Street child in Kericho
Home on the Street	Kenya – Kenya - Kitale 'Street Children' are divided into the 3 groups: a) Those who live, sleep and carry out all their daily activities on the street. b) Those who spend all day on the streets. c) Those who spend some of their time on the streets.
Home on the Street	Kenya – street child
Home on the Street	Kenya – street child
Home on the Street	Kenya – street child
Home on the Street	Kenya – In the foreground Patrick, twelve years old, with other street children; the security guard keep's them away from the supermarket
Home on the Street	Kenya – Street children climbing over a surrounding wall to steal fruits
Home on the Street	Kenya – Peter, eight years old, sniffing glue from his plastic bottle
Home on the Street	Russia - orphan boy, sixteen, with arms tied to wooden bench as punishment for attempting to run away, Moscow © Kate Brooks/SABA 1998
Home on the Street	Ethiopia – street boys
Home on the Street	Zimbabwe – Harare street boys
Home on the Street	A Roma (gypsy) child finds herself on the side of a road in northern Italy, ironically wearing a shirt that proclaims, "Outsider." Her family, which fled the ethnic turmoil in Bosnia, is always on the move
Off the Street	Ukraine – two street children
Off the street	Ukraine – Two homeless youths sit on a mattress, while a third boy sleeps, in a burnt-out and abandoned house strewn with garbage in Odessa © UNICEF/HQ05-1828/Pirozzi
Off the street	Ukraine – Artem, 14, sits on a wall outside ‘The Way Home’, a UNICEF-supported shelter in the port city of Odessa, Ukraine that helps ensure the fundamental rights of street children ©UNICEF/HQ05-1826/Pirozzi
Off the street	Ukraine – Ukrainian street children have a chance to realize their rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child through a UNICEF-supported summer camp programme operated by ‘The Way Home’ © UNICEF Ukraine/2007/ Degen
Off the street	Congo (DRC) – A street boy sleeping in a shelter in Kinshasa. ©2005 Marcus Bleasdale
Off the street	Paraguay – children behind bars © Casa de la Juventud
Off the street	Paraguay – children behind bars © Casa de la Juventud
Off the street	Paraguay – children behind bars © Casa de la Juventud
Off the street	India – children rescued from the streets and returned to their home States
Off the street	India - Children from two rehabilitation centres who were taken to watch `C/O Footpath' in Bangalore on Saturday [Photo: K. Murali Kumar]
Off the street	India - Smiles all around: Sanjay Kumar with his wards [Photo: Madhu Gurung]
Off the street	Haiti - Few of the 120 boys jailed at Fort Dimanche prison know when or if they will be released. Some, fearing the streets, have asked not to be freed. Some are jailed for years for minor crimes or are innocents nabbed in neighborhood sweeps, children's advocates say [Photo: Michel Du Cille]
Poverty	Shantytown
Poverty	Little girl playing
Poverty	Peru - A child sits amid garbage while his parents search for recyclable items on a street in the shantytown of Pamplona in Lima November 9, 2006.