Greetings!
This blog is an archive of articles about street children from the media and from blogs. I began to build this archive some time ago when I realized that many articles about street children go offline or become otherwise unavailable shortly after they are published. Even if they remain online it is difficult to find them all. I am compiling them here so that researchers and other interested parties can easily view related articles about street children.
This archive was originally set up on blogspot.com as a collection of individual blogs where each country had its own archive of articles. After some time I realized that researchers interested in a specific subject such as glue-sniffing or prostitution would be unable to search all the country blogs simultaneously for relevant articles. Thus I am now moving all the articles over to this single blog and setting up separate categories for each continent and country. This will enable researchers to search for specific topics and find all stories relating to that topic, regardless of which country or date. This will also make it less cumbersome for me to post new articles.
If you are interested in street children in a specific country or continent, simply click the category link for that country on the right hand side of the page and you will see all the articles about street children in that particular country. Articles are presented in date order with the most recent article first.
Articles are also archived monthly by date of publication.
The articles collected here are only a sample of what is available online as reflected in searches in Google news, blogs and videos. I try to post every item I find but suspect that many are missed. Unfortunately, the only items included here are those published in English and I am sure there are many published in other languages that are not included.
Also, items included here are generally from popular sources rather than academic publications. An excellent bibiliography of scholarly materials is maintained by Joël Mermet, LL.M. - BIBLIOGRAPHY ON STREET CHILDREN
Search facilities:
1. Onsite search: This will search specific categories or sub-categories (month/year, continent or country) and returns complete articles that contain the search terms within the category. For instance, if you wanted to research glue use amongst Philippines street children you would click on the Philippines streetkid news category on the right hand side of the page. This would take you to the Philippines streetkid news category pages. Scroll down to the search box and type in "glue" click "Search" and this site will return a page or pages containing all the Philippines Streetkid News articles that contain the word "glue," arranged by date,
2. Below the onsite search box is the Google search facility. The default search is within this entire site but you may also search the web. This search returns Google style snippets from each article on the site that contains the search text. It is not possible to search within specific categories using the Google search so a search for "glue" will return snippets from every article on the site that contains the word "glue."
Visitors will please note that I claim no authorship nor any rights over any of the articles posted here, nor do I make any profit from their reproduction here from ads or commercial activities of any kind. These articles are posted here as a public service and to raise awareness of the plight of street children on our planet.
All articles are linked to their original sources and authors are credited wherever possible. Each article has two titles. The top title is a hyperlink to the article’s own page on this site. If you click it you will be able to see any comments other visitors have made on the post. The second title below is a link to the original source for the article.
Editing: With the exception of formatting changes sometimes necessary to remove advertisements I rarely change anything in the articles that are posted. A consistent exception to this practice is that whenever possible I make links to organizations that are mentioned in the article’s text so that visitors may easily visit those NGOs’ websites.
I hope visitors will find this archive useful. I welcome any comments or suggestions.
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Thank you for adding the article about Living Hope onto your blog site.
I would most appreciate it if you could you please add our email address as a link - thank you.
www.livinghope.org.nz
Comment by Rachael Hughes — January 7, 2007 @ 7:35 pm
I am also working on working children on street and factory area.
The high mortality of adults in their reproductive and productive prime from AIDS and AIDS-related illnesses and the number of girls and boys growing up without a responsible guardian have a serious impact on national development and the future of the children concerned. With a lack of adult mentors and limited prospects for education, many orphaned girls and boys miss out on the developmental skills and technical know-how needed to access decent work in their adult lives. The impact of HIV-AIDS on communities, families and entire countries undermines the process of socialization of children in its broadest sense, inverting care-giving roles and giving rise to social exclusion and loss of identity. The human capital losses arising from the pandemic exacerbates a multitude of other problems faced daily by children, their families and the communities, in many regions of the world. These include pervasive poverty, gender based discrimination, unemployment and lack of social services. It is also an additional and growing obstacle to education, as it has also claimed significant numbers of teachers among its victims in some countries. As a result, the pandemic poses a particular challenge for the elimination of child labour and constitutes a real threat to the significant results achieved so far in the global fight against child labour.
Comment by Muhammad Sohaib Zaffar — February 8, 2007 @ 10:37 am
We are a small charity working in Nigeria with street children branded as “witches”. we are particularly keen on establishing links with any other individuals or organisation who have worked in this field. Please do get in touch!
Comment by Gary Foxcroft — February 26, 2007 @ 6:49 am
thank you so much for adding our videos…. we at i-india working with 3000 street children daily…..thanks for all your support
Comment by charoo prabhakar — April 21, 2007 @ 10:53 am
I was pleased to find out about the existence of this blog.Im currently working for the Romanian Government in order to reduce the incidence of the phenomena of street children in Romania and especially in Bucharest and from the articles posted here I can find out about similar initiatives around the world and inspire myself and my colleagues in our work.
In my country the number of street children dropped in the last years, but there are still some children living or working in the street, so our efforts should continue….even one child living on streets is too much!
Comment by cosmina simiean — May 15, 2007 @ 11:50 am
I was collecting articles through the Internet and I came across this site, the reason being I ended on this site is that I was trying to do some research on street kids in Fiji. I am working at one of the NGO’s in Fiji so basically deal with this kind of issues.
I really appreciate your site and good work!!!
Comment by Losalini Tui — May 30, 2007 @ 6:54 pm
I cannot say how grateful we are to have come across this Blogsite…We are a group of filmmakers who make documentaries and short films for change…We recently did a documentary called WINGS OF EVOLUTION about a free school in Chennai, India that was started by two socially committed individuals for street children in the area..Uma and Muthuram started Siragu school in 2003 and the children have so much love and care in the school..we intend to screen the documentary film in as many places as possible so that more people are inspired by Uma and Muthuram and start a care system in their locality for these children…it depresses me to see that so many of our children are on the streets..but we are positive that more responsible individuals will come up and take care of the children of the world.
http://www.accessiblehorizonfilms.com/
http://www.siragu.org/
http://acchor.blogspot.com/search/label/Siragu%20Documentary
http://worldkidsunite.blogspot.com/
Comment by Raghu Jeganathan — August 26, 2007 @ 9:43 pm
I cannot say how grateful we are to have come across this Blogsite…We are a group of filmmakers who make documentaries and short films for change…We recently did a documentary called WINGS OF EVOLUTION about a free school in Chennai, India that was started by two socially committed individuals for street children in the area..Uma and Muthuram started Siragu school in 2003 and the children have so much love and care in the school..we intend to screen the documentary film in as many places as possible so that more people are inspired by Uma and Muthuram and start a care system in their locality for these children…it depresses me to see that so many of our children are on the streets..but we are positive that more responsible individuals will come up and take care of the children of the world.
http://www.accessiblehorizonfilms.com/
http://www.siragu.org/
http://acchor.blogspot.com/search/label/Siragu%20Documentary
http://worldkidsunite.blogspot.com/
Comment by Raghu Jeganathan — August 26, 2007 @ 9:44 pm
Thank you so much for this site and posting Pixote on You Tube! Please send me material about street children for Global Peace Global Healing. Sakanta Running Wolf
Comment by Sakanta Running Wolf - Global Peace Global Healing — October 12, 2007 @ 7:41 am
We welcome your articles about Street Children for possible incluson on the Global Peace Global Healing site. GHPH at www.MySpace.com/Sakanta. Email: Sakanta@yahoo.com
Comment by Sakanta Running Wolf - Global Peace Global Healing — October 14, 2007 @ 8:03 am
I am a Presbyterian Minister(PCUSA) working with street children in Odessa, Ukraine. I direct the non profit This Child Here and work in cooperation with The Way Home, an odessa charity. www.thischildhere.org will tell you all about it.
Comment by Robert Gamble — October 30, 2007 @ 4:13 am
How can I contact you?Thanks!
Comment by Stephen — December 1, 2007 @ 10:37 am
I am a child psychiatrist working in CDRC a community service center in Helwan University in Egypt. We offere training for street educators and work in collaboration with many NGOs
Comment by Maha Abou-Hatab — December 11, 2007 @ 12:50 pm
Thjanks for a great job done. God bless you
Comment by Raphael Kwawu — May 22, 2008 @ 2:07 am
I would like to help. This is something I have been interested in and want to actively participate in this matter. It is very unfortunate, and I want to have a part in helping so if there is any information you could give to me as to how I could I would appreciate it.
Thank you,
Azi Vaziri
Comment by azadeh vaziri — June 28, 2008 @ 10:11 am
Great site…there is an article in Durban’s daily news yesterday (03/07/08)on metro (municipal) police brutality towards street children.
Comment by Umthombo — July 3, 2008 @ 11:17 pm
Enfants de la rue, enfants mendiants :
la charité encourage le phénomène !
Contribuant aux côtés des institutions sociales marocaines, avec à leur tête l’honorable Fondation Mohammed V, nous nous présentons en tant qu’ Association marocaine pour la Sauvegarde de l’Enfance en Péril. Nous aidons principalement des Enfants de Rue, et des Enfants gravement malades; des enfants qui sont jugés « irrécupérables », tantôt par la Société, tantôt par un corps médical. Des enfants sans espoir – sans avenir – aux racines perdues.
Pour nous, c’est de réussir une MISSION PRESQUE IMPOSSIBLE !
Une chose est sûre, tous les enfants mendiants ne sont pas des enfants de la rue ! 60 % des enfants mendiants sont des fugueurs, et ne s’y trouveraient pas des années durant sans la complicité de la population.
Un phénomène essentiellement urbain, mais de plus en plus recrudescent. Dans les rues, des enfants réclament l’aumône alors qu’ils devraient être à l’école ou le soir chez eux à l’abri des dangers qui les guettent.
Mais qui sont-ils ? D’où viennent-ils ? Qui les pousse à mendier ? Et où est l’intervention de la société pour endiguer ce phénomène qui menace une nouvelle génération d’analphabètes et qui seront probablement de futurs délinquants.
L’action de terrain a permis de classer les enfants mendiants en quatre catégories distinctes. Tout d’abord, les enfants de la rue (ER), âgés entre 6 et 14 ans, délaissés par leurs familles, démunis et abandonnés à leur sort, toxicomanes, trop souvent atteints de maladies graves ou accidentés. Des enfants principalement victimes de l’éclatement du noyau familial, avec perte des valeurs traditionnelles, absence de valeurs culturelles, manque d’éducation et d’affection, absence d’instruction… L’antichambre de l’Enfer, quoi !
La deuxième catégorie identifiée est celle des enfants de familles pauvres (EP) qui mendient dans la rue pour subvenir à leurs propres besoins. Le soir, ils rentrent dans leurs foyers respectifs.
Il y a également les enfants hypothéqués par leurs propres parents, les (EPM). Ces enfants sont sévèrement punis, s’ils n’assurent pas un minimum pécuniaire le soir venu. Trop souvent, ces enfants abusés et maltraités finiront par rester dans la rue.
La quatrième catégorie, et certainement la plus difficile, est celle des enfants fuyards et aventuriers (EFA). Pour eux, la rue est libératrice, généreuse, et pleine d’aventure. Pour la première fois dans leur vie, ils assurent eux-mêmes leur autosuffisance – grâce à une population trop souvent complice. Leur rédemption s’avère très difficile.
Un enfant mendiant assure, que si mendier dans la rue ne serait pas aussi facile et lucratif, il ne s’y trouverait pas. Ce qui fait, qu’il y est depuis sept années maintenant ! Et la majorité des enfants mendiants pensent comme lui. Leur présence dans la rue n’est justifiée que par un intérêt matériel !
Ainsi, et à travers les années, le nombre des enfants errants qui peuplent la rue ne décroît pas, et ne décroîtra pas ! Un nombre impressionnant ! A croire que l’Enfer a bien une porte d’entrée ; mais la porte de sortie est bien plus difficile à trouver !
Pour venir à bout de ce phénomène, toutes les forces actives devraient conjuger leurs efforts pour éveiller la conscience sociale sur la situation de ces enfants mendiant, qui persistent à vivre dans la rue malgré les conditions pitoyables et les dangers qui les guettent à tout moment. Soit le simple citoyen, les associations, les décideurs; devraient veiller à ce que les marchands ne puissent plus vendre aux enfants mineurs, ni diluants, ni tabacs, ni drogues, ni alcools; à former dans les quartiers chauds des groupes d’actions et de reflexions pour définir les besoins de ces enfants en péril, afin d’agir efficacement et de répondre ainsi à leur besoin de réinsertion dans la société.
Claude Grandchamp
Auteur de l’article
Claude Grandchamp (Rabat, Maroc)
Claude Grandchamp, Suisse, 25.09.1936, vivant au Maroc depuis 1980, acteur social depuis 1968, Fondateur de l’Association A.D.I.M. DAR IDA MOHLER, créée le 30 juin 2003 à Rabat, Maroc.
Comment by Claude Grandchamp — July 11, 2008 @ 10:32 am
I am going to be in dakar only a few hours on December 1, 2008. I would love to meet with the Christian Missionaries who work with the street children. Contact me if possible thank You Zoey
Comment by Zoey schroeder — October 10, 2008 @ 3:23 am
Thanks for this site — very informative. I’ve added a link to it from our own. We’re supporting a Congolese effort in Kinshasa which is really coming together www.rescuestreetkids.org
Comment by Clarence Peters — October 13, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
Thanks to all those who care for the childrens of the world. Ours best gifts to them is letting them knowing that someone out there care and love them.
Comment by Sandra James — October 15, 2008 @ 6:41 pm
my naMe is billa yves living from cameroon in africa i’m a street child while some one gave me this site so i want to you know that i’m very interested about this but i don’t have means to be like you but if you can make to realise my dream i’ll be very happy
Comment by billa yves — December 14, 2008 @ 10:13 am
Thank you for this archive you have made available online. This facilitates developing a detailed and comprehensive perspective on the problems of street children domestically and globally. I am currently trying to formulate an assistance program, like everyone else interested is doing, and having this archive is an immense beginning point for data collection. Thank you for your advocacy and for what you are doing here. Do you have an ongoing newsletter update to which we can subscribe? Is there anyway this archive can be emailed if it is requested of you, for assimmilation in a personal concept paper in my personal journey as a pediatrician to grapple with this misery, that has clinical issues that must be identified and remedied along with a million other problems?
Comment by JESSIE C. BADILLO, MD — December 20, 2008 @ 10:10 pm
Hi there,
I will be in SE Asia filming a documentary about child education and labor issues this summer, and we will be visiting Malaysia. I saw one of your posts on the street children epidemic in Eastern Malaysia and wanted to know if you had any contacts over there we could possibly meet with and interview about this issue. Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks in advance for your help!
Comment by miaken — April 1, 2009 @ 7:39 pm
Hi I’m Aryanty, curently I’m doing research in early childhood education. Thank you for the infos…. These really help me to understand the construct for childhood images in term of street children. I hope my study would be useful to reform the policy regards handling street children issue.
Comment by aryanty risnadewi — April 20, 2009 @ 6:05 am
I am very pleased to discover your amazing blog, perfect job. Where can I post the announcement of my website with portraits of street children? The website is www.globalstreetchild.org and I am trying to capture images from all over the world.
Comment by Ton Hendriks — September 16, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
I would like to thank the neighbour hood police i saw for his concern in astreet child . if all neighbour hood police do the same i think Guyana would have a smaller figer of street childern . So thanks for making a difference in the life of a child
Comment by Sobhana — October 13, 2009 @ 7:47 pm
I would like to help the street children of Quiapo. I am looking for a boy who have 2 wide rubber bands wrapped around his ankle. If you could find him for me. I would like to take care of him. I am here at the US, but I will pay anyone who could take care of him or support that organization.
maribelle_wong@yahoo.com
Comment by Maribelle Wong — January 7, 2010 @ 10:07 pm
Your blogs about the street children are very eye-opening, and I’m greatful for the information that you included on the agencies helping them as well. Is there a way we can be added to your newsletter or mail list, in order to received updated information? Thanks and God bless.
Comment by Jeanne M. — January 10, 2010 @ 12:57 pm
Thank you for the site. I will be in Iran in July, and i would like some help to get connected with organizations who are active in “throwawy” kids in Iran, so i would make contact and be of help when there. Thank you so much ,
tashakor–soofi
Comment by soofi Bejanian — May 3, 2010 @ 6:55 pm
Thanks for the useful information. I would like to invite cyclists who want to be responsible tourists in India to join our Charity Bicycle Ride to benefit street children there. Please visit our website: www.gypsyspiritride.co.cc
Comment by Dhane Blue — May 26, 2010 @ 12:15 am
Désolé, je ne parle pas portugais, je parle une espagnol, j’aime beaucoup votre pays et souhaite apporter une modeste contribution à votre association. Je suis éducateur de football en France, écrivez moi vite, à bientôt.
Comment by BEBEY ALFRED — July 12, 2010 @ 2:04 pm
Street children are a vast resource of talent gone to waste if not given the chance to be recognized and developed. With the extension of a guiding hand, street children can recover their dignity as valuable citizens of the world. Thank you for this eye opening and informative blog.
Comment by Santiago Garcia — September 9, 2010 @ 1:09 pm
amazing site …and amazing world you’ve shared with us …wish thers was something that could be done effectivley!!!
Comment by ibtesampooya — October 3, 2010 @ 3:19 pm
what activities can be done on the day to remember the children who were mass killed in south africa and will they help street children in life.
Comment by dorothy — April 14, 2011 @ 12:53 am