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Challenges Street Children

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.3 Challenges Experienced by Street Children
Street children like any other children, need certain resources to meet their physical and emotional needs, needs be protected , to be taught how to live in society, to be educated and to have vocational training as stated in the UNCRC (1989:24).
However, street children are often victims of every conceivable physical and moral danger and as they grow older, they often become a danger to others. After such insecure childhoods, most street children are condemned to spend their lives excluded from mainstream society (Schmidt 2003:27). Street children face untold hardships and dangers on the streets and their living conditions on the roads and public squares of cities all over the world in the eyes …show more content…

The health problems are mostly caused by malnutrition, exposure to insanitary living conditions, the utilization of unclean water and food, the lack of toilets and exposure to cold. These children belong to one of the groups in society that are precluded from receiving health care services; they suffer the most from health problems because there is no one to care for them and the fact that they are excluded from society. Kopoka (2000:5) adds that street children need health centers to consult about their health since many street children “sleep on sidewalks and are exposed to bad weather, unsanitary situations and violence,” which bring health problems in their …show more content…

Violence, particularly physical abuse, harassment, police arrests and detention are common challenges faced by street children (CSC, 2009). In this regard, street children are often victims of severe police beatings and mistreatment. Furthermore, the beatings and the assaults experienced by the street children were not limited to those perpetrated by the police, but also included the violence perpetrated by fellow street children. Female street children often experience sexual assault inflicted on them by older street boys or adults (Molla et al. 2000:120). Schmidt (2003:5) points out that: “Street children are frequently harassed by local security and are subjected to pressures they cannot

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