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this page and others to see which aspect(s) of street life are of particular
interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring how children got there, how they survive, and how
some manage to leave the street.
Perhaps your paper could focus on how some street children abuse the
public and how they are abused by the public … and how they abuse each
other. Would you like to write about
market children? homeless children? Sexual and labor exploitation? begging? violence? addiction? hunger? neglect? etc. There is a lot to the subject of Street
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** How COVID-19 is
affecting underprivileged children in India Dharvi Vaid,
DW New Delhi, July 10, 2020 www.dw.com/en/how-coronavirus-is-affecting-underprivileged-children-in-india/a-54125032 [accessed 8 February
2023] "Ragpicking here was never difficult. I had no money
during the lockdown. Survival has never been this tough," he says. Orphaned at a young age and living on the
streets since then, Nankesh knows what survival
means. "Coronavirus is for the rich, not for us. The poor have to work.
I have no family, so I have nothing to worry about. I just want to earn my
daily wage," he says, as he continues work without a face mask. Spreading awareness
about the virus and ensuring physical distancing was another challenge. "A minimum of 60 people live in this
room. While the world was talking about social distancing, we had no choice.
We slept close to each other," 16-year-old Sangeeta who lives in a night
shelter in Delhi said. "With the
lockdown, several basic services for children such as growth monitoring,
supplementary nutrition, immunization, sexual and reproductive health
services, education and child protection systems were disrupted," said
Puja Marwaha, head of CRY. "This has affected
children living in multidimensional poverty disproportionately since they are
largely dependent on these services to fulfill their rights and
entitlements." More kids flee
abuse than poverty Express News
Service, Ahmedabad, November 20, 2006 cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=210145 [accessed 24 May
2011] Contrary to popular
myth, more children leave home due to a disturbed domestic environment than
abject poverty, according to a report from the Ahmedabad Study Action Group
(ASAG) and the Gujarat Institute of Development Research (GIDR). The
study ranks familial harassment as the top reason behind children running
away from home. On the streets
where they live [PDF] www.infochangeindia.org infochangeindia.org/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=725 [accessed 24 May
2011] Police Abuse And
Killings Of Street Children In Human Rights Watch
Children's Rights Project, November 1996 www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/1996/India4.htm [accessed 24 May
2011] Journey to the
streets Harsh Mander, The Hindu, Jul 13, 2008 www.hindu.com/mag/2008/07/13/stories/2008071350080300.htm [accessed 24 May
2011] [accessed 5 December
2016] HARSH NECESSITIES - Abuse often
drives boys from their homes, who flee their families to escape intolerable
abuse. These are acts of incredible courage for children so young, echoed and
repeated in the lives of tens of thousands of street children who decide at
very young ages to bravely escape violence and abuse in their homes —
alcoholic fathers, physical and sexual violence — by fending for themselves,
at whatever cost. But we also have children who were lost or abandoned by
their families at such a young age that they do not recall their origins. The
streets are the only home that they remember. NO OTHER HOME - Some are also
simply born to the streets. In Chennai, in particular, we encountered several
families which had lived for several generations on the same piece of
pavement. Their great grandparents came to the city, sometimes 80 years
earlier or longer, and the patriarchs colonised
gradually “their” part of the pavement. New generations were born, one
following the next, and they all grew up in the same stretch of pavement.
This was the only home that the large extended family now knew. Mohan, a
street boy in Chennai, said, “Homelessness is not a new thing for me. I was
born into streets, and it was here that I was brought up.” He is convinced
that they will be forced to return to the streets. Likewise, Mythili is another of “homeless lineage”. When she was a
child, her father was irresponsible, “a drunkard, he never cared for us”, she
recounts, and her mother fed them by selling food cooked by her on the
pavements to other homeless people. For links to more published articles & reports, visit our
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