About Street Children

I want to tell you what is the meaning of Street Children?

UNICEF has defined three types of street children: Street-Living, Street-Working, Street-Family.

1) Street Living Children: children who ran away from their families and live alone on the streets are comes in this category and lots of children comes under this category they ran from there home.

2) Street Working Children: children who spend most of their time on the streets, fending for themselves, but returning home on a regular basis.

3) Children from Street Families: children who live on the streets with their families.

UNICEF’s estimate of 11 million street children in India is considered to be a conservative figure. The Indian Embassy has estimated that there are 314,700 street children in metros such as Bombay, Calcutta, Madras,

Kanpur, Bangalore and Hyderabad and around 100,000 in Delhi alone.

A survey among 100 street children at the New Delhi Railway Station in India

A study in 2007 in India found the following:
a) 65.9% of the street children lived with their families on the streets. Out of these children, 51.84% slept on the footpaths, 17.48% slept in night shelters and 30.67% slept in other places including under flyovers and bridges, railway platforms, bus stops, parks, market places.

b) The overall incidence of physical abuse among street children, either by family members or by others or both, was 66.8% across the states. Out of this, 54.62% were boys and 45.38% were girls.

c) Maximum children are spending more than six to ten hours a day in scavenging, begging & blacking the alcohol and other illegal things.

d) Such street children took some drugs injections and drink alcohol.

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