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