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Street Children

The Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children

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At work on the Street	Afghanistan - Fahim, 11, waves his can of burning incense inside a car on a busy Kabul street, seeking alms from the driver media.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2008/jan/streetkids/smoke200.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Afghanistan - Malayeh, 11, tries to hawk gum to a driver on a busy street in Kabul media.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2008/jan/streetkids/girl200.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Guatemala - street kids struggle to survive by selling bananas www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/14/guatemala.street.kids/bananas.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Guatemala - street kids struggle to survive scavenging through garbage www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/14/guatemala.street.kids/garbage.dump.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Pakistan – A street child in Karachi - Photo: David Swanson/IRIN pictures.irinnews.org/images/2005522.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Pakistan – Many street children are at risk of physical and sexual abuse, child rights activists say - Photo: IRIN www.irinnews.org/images/206011.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Bangladesh - Yusef, 14, and Smaile, 10, live by themselves on the streets on Dhaka, Bangladesh. They make a living by collecting plastic bottles and filling them with fresh water. [photo: Bangladesh/2008/McCarthy] www.unicef.org/infobycountry/images/ibc_1_PCARol070.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Bangladesh - Street children eke out a living in difficult circumstances news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1820000/images/_1822200_kidsdumpalt300.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Russia - Sergei boldly steals the wallet of a sleeping man in the St. Petersburg airport. He and other young bandits brag about their bravado and thievery www.johnkaplan.com/kaplanstealing.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Senegal - A Koranic student with his begging bowl in Dakar. Rights advocates doubt that the students learn much through begging. graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/09/13/world/DAKAR/DAKAR-articleLarge.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Senegal - Talibe beggar childen in Senegal [Photo: Pierre Holtz/IRIN] pictures.irinnews.org/images/20066125.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Senegal - Beggar children on the streets of Dakar www.irinnews.org/images/20066123.JPG [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Senegal - Talibe boy begging in Dakar www.irinnews.org/images/2008/2008010313.JPG [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Serbia & Montenegro - It is estimated that more than 500 children live and work on the streets of Belgrade www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/images/2009/04/13/BOJANAphoto1.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Turkey - A quick sandwich before going back to work collecting waste paper and packaging on the streets of Ankara. [Photograph by Rana Mullan © UNICEF Turkey 2003] www.unicef.org/turkey/pr/img/cp4.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Turkey – Street hawkers. [Photograph by Rana Mullan © UNICEF Turkey 2004] www.unicef.org/turkey/dn/img/cp8.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Vietnam – Street child carrying a bag www.asianews.it/files/img/size2/VIETNAM_-_street_child.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Yemen - Cleaning car windscreens is a common job for street children www.irinnews.org/images/2008/2008070839.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
At work on the Street	Yemen - Some 60 percent of Yemen's street children work and sleep on the streets and tend to be separated from their families, according to a new study www.irinnews.org/images/2008/2008070840.JPG [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Afghanistan - Street kids in Kabul warm themselves by a makeshift fire media.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2008/jan/streetkids/fire200.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Bangladesh - Slum children of Dhaka city-1 [photo by Nari Jibon] farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2570304450_aef06b93c5_m.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Bangladesh - Slum children of Dhaka city-2 [photo by Nari Jibon] farm3.static.flickr.com/2231/2386473321_ee0c62f851_m.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Russia - Sergei Mayorov, at age 8, had been alone on the street in St. Petersburg for nearly three years. He insists on smoking American Marlboro cigarettes, which cost the equivalent of two days average Russian wages. He steals or begs to gather money to buy them, then gives them away www.johnkaplan.com/kaplansmoking.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Russia - Sergei: A Loss of Freedom. He is again a helpless little boy as shelter workers give him a bath and check for lice. Sensing a loss of freedom, Sergei refuses to sleep in the shelter for more than a few nights at a time www.johnkaplan.com/kaplansergeibath.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Russia - Sergei, 10, doesn't know why his parents drove him out of the house www2.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/archive/pics/05sergei.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012].
Home on the Street	There are about 2 million street children in Russia. Every summer, this number grows to as many as 4 million. web.archive.org/web/20050303042017/http:/www.copris.com/sgroup/street/kids-1.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Ukraine - In Kharkiv, thousands of street children live in manholes underground. www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01239/georgia1_1239976c.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Ukraine - Streets apart: one of thousands of Ukraine's homeless children, Vlodimir, 15, sleeps rough in Kharkiv. [photographer: David Rose] www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01245/ukraine_1245952c.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Ukraine - Orphans and Street Children Program in Vinogradov www.lifenets.org/vinogradov/images/children2.JPG [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Ethiopia - Encountering the street kids who live underground is not easy, but once we talked to a few, dozens appeared. news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/africa_underground_children/img/3.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Cambodia – boy eats remnants of a lunch box of rice that he found in the trash www.parish-without-borders.net/cditt/deafkh/2003/iddisp/stkids1.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Colombia - Few organisations help children in slum areas and on the streets of Colombia. english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2008/10/16/20081016192819164580_8.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Guatemala children adapt to survive news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1920000/images/_1920570_guatemala300.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Guatemala - Police and private security guards have been known to beat up and even kill street children www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/14/guatemala.street.kids/godinez.archive.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Guatemala - street kids struggle to survive sleeping in doorways www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/14/guatemala.street.kids/doorway.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Guatemala - street kids struggle to survive abusing inhalants www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/14/guatemala.street.kids/high.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	India - Indian street children play beside a parked hand rickshaw on a street in Kolkata. [Photo: Deshakalyan Chowdhury / AFP-Getty Images] www.worldpress.org/images/20070718-children.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Indonesia - RAY OF LIGHT: Volunteers of Sahabat Anak hold a study session for street children under Grogol overpass in West Jakarta on Sunday. Most of the children, who had otherwise dropped out of school, resume their studies after joining the sessions. (JP/Tifa Asrianti)] www.thejakartapost.com/files/images/p05-a-1_24.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Peru – clustering at the Rotary www.gurney.co.uk/rotary/woody1.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Peru – homeless child sleeping www.inspiremagazine.org.uk/images/_shared/news/toybox-peru.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Jamaica - The children are all over the streets and become street children because there's no-one there to care for them. - Olga Heaven, Hibiscus newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39325000/jpg/_39325370_kingstonroadblock203.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Romania - children have made a hot, foul-smelling tunnel their home newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40081000/jpg/_40081942_tunnelentrance_203300.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Romania – Underground Bucharest northstargallery.com/thumbnails/Bucharest%20under%2005%20sm.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Romania – Children living in Underground Bucharest northstargallery.com/thumbnails/Bucharest%20under%2004%20sm.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Sisters www.hanshendriksen.net/pics/jai/jai025p.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Philippines - Medecins Sans Frontieres operates a program targeting 200 out of an estimated 200,000 children who live on the streets of the capital, Manila – [photo copyright by Roger Job] www.msf.org/source/actrep/2004/images/phillippines.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Congo (DRC) - Street boys playing at a center for children in Kinshasa. ©2005 Marcus Bleasdale hrw.org/reports/2006/drc0406/drc0406_files/image009.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Kenya – sniffing glue www.exop.org/pub/Image4.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Kenya – Street child in Kericho www.exop.org/pub/Image1.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Kenya – street child web.peacelink.it/koinonia/kivuli_1.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Kenya – street child web.peacelink.it/koinonia/kivuli_2.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Kenya – street child web.peacelink.it/koinonia/kivuli_5.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Kenya – Glue kids - tragic young victims in Kenya [© News Group Newspapers Ltd] img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00599/SNF29SPDTT-682_599281a.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Kenya – Toddlers ... clutching glue containers as if they are baby bottles [© News Group Newspapers Ltd] img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00599/SNF29SPDCC-682_599292a.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Vietnam - Street children in HCM City. The Labour Ministry and the European Community’s project Helping Street Children has reunited 134 homeless youngsters from the Quang Thai Commune with their families. — VNS Photo Truong Vi vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/2008-06/24/Photos/05-Tre-lang-thang.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Zambia – Street Kids flock to Solwezi www.lusakatimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/streetkid.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Home on the Street	Zimbabwe – A Street Kid in Harare www.sokwanele.com/files/images/streetkid.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Off the Street	Afghanistan - Frishta, a 14-year-old former street seller of plastic bags, is one of the first students of Afghanistan's revived National Institute of Music. [Matt Gutman/ABC News] a.abcnews.com/images/International/abc_frishta_playing_violin_090619_mn.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Off the street	Congo (DRC) – A street boy sleeping in a shelter in Kinshasa. ©2005 Marcus Bleasdale hrw.org/reports/2006/drc0406/drc0406_files/image013.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Off the street	Haiti - Few of the 120 boys jailed at Fort Dimanche prison know when or if they will be released. Some, fearing the streets, have asked not to be freed. Some are jailed for years for minor crimes or are innocents nabbed in neighborhood sweeps, children's advocates say [Photo: Michel Du Cille] seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2007/03/03/2003599658.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Off the street	Ukraine – Two homeless youths sit on a mattress, while a third boy sleeps, in a burnt-out and abandoned house strewn with garbage in Odessa © UNICEF/HQ05-1828/Pirozzi www.unicef.org/infobycountry/images/ibc_ukraine_odessaastree1.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Off the street	Ukraine – Artem, 14, sits on a wall outside ‘The Way Home’, a UNICEF-supported shelter in the port city of Odessa, Ukraine that helps ensure the fundamental rights of street children ©UNICEF/HQ05-1826/Pirozzi www.unicef.org/infobycountry/images/ibc_ukraine_odessaastree2.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Off the street	Ukraine – Ukrainian street children have a chance to realize their rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child through a UNICEF-supported summer camp programme operated by ‘The Way Home’ © UNICEF Ukraine/2007/ Degen www.unicef.org/infobycountry/images/ibc_ukraine_odessaastreet3.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Poverty	Little girl playing www.womenaid.org/image004.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]
Poverty	Sudan - Instead of studying, many children are sent to work to supplement the family income. pictures.irinnews.org/images/2008/2008121811.jpg [accessed 29 May 2012]