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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Street children
bear the brunt of COVID-19 pandemic Rafiqul Islam, Bangladesh
Sangbad Sangstha-BSS, DHAKA, 31 Aug 2022 https://www.bssnews.net/news/79943 [accessed 29
November 2022] The coronavirus
pandemic that ravaged the society has a heavy impact on the street children
of the country, exposing them to extreme poverty, insecurity and drug
addiction. “There were
lockdowns. There was no movement of people. Doors of all remained shut and
that was why I was just starving. Once I knocked the people’s doors looking
for food, they asked me to go away as they were concerned of getting infected
from the virus,” he said. “I collect scraps
from the city streets and earn money by selling those to buy food. As there
were lockdowns across the country, I remained idle outside Kamlapur rail station. I had to wait for someone giving
me food. Many days I did not eat anything without water during the pandemic,”
he said. Hundreds of
thousands of homeless children are living on the streets in Bangladesh, and
most of them had to face the similar fate like Towhidul
and Emon due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to the
Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), there were over 1.5
million street children in the country in 2015, suggesting the number could
rise to 1.6 million by 2024 Disease haunts lonely
street children of Bangladesh Nadeem Qadir, Agence France-Presse AFP, www.aegis.com/news/afp/2003/AF030303.html [accessed 3 April
2011] streetchildrennews.wordpress.com/2003/03/03/disease-haunts-lonely-street-children-of-bangladesh/ [accessed 21
November 2016] "I had scabies
all over my body and they bled due to scratching, but I didn't have any money
to go to a doctor," he said. "I treated it with some cream I
bought from a vendor, but it didn't go away." A monster in the
making The Daily Star,
2007-09-26 thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=5445 [accessed 27
December 2014] “In reality people in our society are not much concerned about drug addiction among street children because they are kept out of sight and so are out of mind. The upper and middle income groups and the educated section of the society are not directly affected by this problem,” she said. “The direct impact of the problem is that by losing these children, who will soon become adolescents and teens, Bangladesh will lose a portion of her young workforce. We will lose our potential resources and they will become a national burden,” said the sociologist. Staff Correspondent,
The Daily Star, thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=41556 [accessed 27
December 2014] A large number of
street boys in Khulna city and nine upazilas of the district have got
involved in different types of crime as criminals use them as convenient
accomplices. Poverty and wayward
life of their parents, loss of shelters due to natural calamities such as
floods and cyclone, drug addiction, bigamy or polygamy of parents and missing
during journey from one place to another are among the factors that are
responsible for a large number of street boys' get involved in crimes, says
the report. Many of these
hapless street boys are being picked up by criminals for keeping arms,
throwing bombs at targets, selling drugs and pilferage of food grains for
small amount of money, the project manager quoted the survey report as saying.
A day in the lives
of two homeless brothers in Bangladesh Casey McCarthy,
United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF, www.unicef.org/infobycountry/bangladesh_48635.html [accessed 3 April
2011] The sun had not yet
risen when the two boys woke up. By 4 a.m., the port on the River Buriganga
here in the capital of Bangladesh was alive and bustling. The ‘bed’ where
Yusef,14, and his younger brother Smaile,10, slept was made of hard wooden
planks on the pier. In a familiar
routine, the brothers washed up and then walked around, looking for empty
bottles to fill with fresh water that they would later sell. They started
their morning by begging for food at local cafes. On a good day, the boys get
some leftovers. On a bad one, they go hungry. DETERMINED TO CREATE
A BETTER LIFE
- For Yusef and Smaile, lunchtime meant – as usual – begging for food. Then
they returned to the harbour to look for work carrying bags or boxes. (The
boys work about six hours a day, earning less than $1.) The day ended as
darkness crept in. Hey returned to their ‘beds’ on the pier for a few hours’
sleep before repeating the whole process the next day. ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global Monitoring
Report on the status of action against commercial exploitation of children -
BANGLADESH
[PDF] ECPAT 2005 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/South_Asia/Global_Monitoring_Report-BANGLADESH.pdf [accessed 3 April
2011] resources.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/South_Asia/Global_Monitoring_Report-BANGLADESH.pdf [accessed 21
November 2016] A report published
by Appropriate Resources for Improving Street Children’s Environment (Arise)
in 2002, put the number of street children in Bangladesh at approximately two
million and indicated that sexual exploitation of children is rampant. Little
has changed to reduce these numbers and homeless children living on the
streets continue to be particularly vulnerable to abuse and exploitation as their
strategies for survival, usually as rag pickers, beggars or peddlers, renders
them vulnerable to all forms of exploitation and abuse. In the precarious and
dangerous conditions in which they exist, they are sometimes forced into
offering sexual favors to meet basic needs such as food, shelter and
clothing. A 2005 research study conducted by the NGO Aparajeyo-Bangladesh
(AB), cited several forms of sexual exploitation on the streets: it reported
that children are coerced into massaging adultsand are forced to engage in
sexual activities in market places, parks, railway stations, and boat and bus
terminals. Some pimps use city hotels or rented private flats in certain
parts of the city for sexual exploitation. Men involved in small businesses
such as operators/vendors (36%), beggars and day labourers (17.2%), as well
as the police and security guards (9.6%), were among the largest groups of
sexual exploiters of street children. Others include relatives, transport
workers, employers, and strangers. The study noted that among the key
contributing factors that drove children into situations of exploitation were
poverty, hunger, the need to earn money, sexual abuse by employers, family
members or other men and the threat and force by pimps and others in their environment. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/bangladesh.htm [accessed 21 January
2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are also often found working in a variety
of potentially hazardous occupations and sectors, including bidi (hand-rolled
cigarette) factories, construction, leather tanneries, fisheries, automobile
repair, welding, bangle-making, rickshaw-pulling, matches manufacturing,
brick-breaking, book binding, and the garment industry. In urban areas many children work as
domestic servants, porters, and street vendors, and are vulnerable to sexual
abuse and commercial sexual exploitation.
In addition, many children are also reported to be involved with
criminal gangs engaged in arms and drug trading and smuggling. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61705.htm [accessed 6 February 2020] CHILDREN
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According to a 2002 report published by the government news agency Bangladesh
Shongbad Shongsta, there were approximately 400 thousand homeless children,
of whom as many as 150 thousand had no knowledge of their parents Few
facilities existed for children whose parents were incarcerated.. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 30 September 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/bangladesh2003.html [accessed 21 January
2011] [75] The Committee
notes the efforts undertaken by the State party to provide children living or
working on the streets with access to health services and education. However, the Committee is concerned at the
large population of children living or working on the streets and at the
extremely difficult conditions under which this very marginalized group is
living, and at the lack of sustained efforts to address this phenomenon. The Committee is further concerned at the
incidence of violence, including sexual abuse and physical brutality,
directed at these children by police officers. Theatre for
unprivileged, tribal children The New Nation,
Dhaka www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-199890676.html [partially accessed
3 April 2011 - access restricted] There are children
belonging to very poor families who are deprived and unprivileged and
sometime marginalised. Among them there are street children without parents,
home or any type of shelter. There are slum children living in the street
side or by the side of rail line. These children begin each of the days with
the tension of collecting foods. In which age, they should go to school; they
have to go in search of livelihood. They have to work hard till the night.
Even sometime they have to be involved in different types of risky jobs,
which are threats to their lives. While growing up, these children usually
experience severe malnutrition, social repugnance and considerable
vulnerability. As a result, they often grow hostility, hatred and distrust
towards the society. This hatred and distrust draw these naive children
toward criminal activities and thus play the most effective role in tainting
the society. Sufferings of our
children Sadika Akhter, The
Daily Star, April 22, 2009 www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=85028 [accessed 3 April
2011] Fatema, who is 9
years old, works at Rampura kacha bazaar. She collects fish from the fish
market and sells them to earn money. The men who work in the market treat the
children shoddily and inhumanly. The child was crying and saying to me:
"I went to the bazaar to collect fish apa, the shopkeeper poured
ice-water (thanda borof ar pani dale dicche) on me and slapped me. I could
not collect any fish. What will I eat today apa?" I could not answer her
question. Lovely is a
ten-year old child. She left her house two years ago. Her father used to beat
her mother and as a child she could not bear the pain. She left her house, came
to Dhaka by launch and got lost in this big city. She stayed for one week in
Kamalapur rail station without any food. The policemen used to beat her.
After seven days of starvation, she got some food that was thrown out from a
hotel. She met a man who brought her to the drop in centre. City's hapless
street children Raihan Sabuktagin,
The Daily Star, 2008-12-07 thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=66400 [accessed 3 April
2011] Street children are
found in bazaars, commercial areas, bus terminals, hotels and parks, on the
pavements, around the stadium. They try to earn a living through collecting
garbage, breaking bricks or pushing rickshaws. Some of them work in roadside
tea stalls while some are just beggars. Some street children are involved in
petty crime. The underworld gangs use
the street children in drug peddling, snatching, toll collection and other
crimes. Dr MSI Mullick, an associate
professor of psychiatry at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University,
says children growing up in deprivation are accustomed to extreme behaviours,
primarily because of inferiority complex. “You cannot expect good behaviour
from a person who have not been treated well by others, can you?” Living a life of
Sisiphus Durdana Ghias, The
Daily Star, 2008-09-10 thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=54086 [accessed 3 April 2011] Rubel was pushing a
rickshaw full of sacks and a man was sitting on the sacks. Though 12 years
old the malnourished boy looked not more than 10 years of age. A dozen other kids were doing the same type
of jobs. They were helping the vehicles to climb the ramp of a bridge. Scores of people and non-motorised vehicles
like rickshaws and rickshaw vans cross the Lohar Bridge every day at
Kamrangirchar, one of the vital links connecting the char with the city. It is really astounding to see how these
little boys manage to push the heavily loaded rickshaws and vans all the day
just for Tk 2 per vehicle. Most of the
children were thin and wiry and looked tiny than their actual age. They work
from the crack of the dawn till midnight. Some of them do it because they
have to support their families. Some do it because they want to earn for
themselves and spend on whatever things they want to including drugs. "I push rickshaws because I don't have
any other work to do," said Rubel while pushing the rickshaw in the
sweltering heat. He gets around Tk 100
daily by pushing rickshaws and rickshaw vans from seven in the morning to two
in the afternoon. Asked what he does
with the money Rubel said he gives the money to his mother to support his
family of four that his rickshaw puller father cannot run. Save the young
offenders nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2008/08/19/news0200.htm [Last access date
unavailable] Being deprived from
education and proper care those children loose their sense of right and
wrong. Peer influence also play a big role in leading them astry. Growing
number of street children pose a threat to the society. Teenager criminals
are feared to be more desperate. Due to adventurism characteristic of young
age, they will not hesitate to commit crimes without the slightest thought of
their own safety. Health scheme for
street children Md Rajib Hossain,
The Daily Star, 2008-08-09 thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=49585 [accessed 3 April
2011] Kalam does not know
his identity. He cannot remember his parents, not even have any near and dear
ones. He was born and grown up on a road at Hazaribag in the city. The 10
years old boy feels his mother most whenever he becomes sick. During his
sickness in last month, he was crying by the name of mother on the roadside.
He could not go to a hospital with his very little money or could not buy his
own food or any medicine. Nobody paid attention to him. Kalam’s mental and
physical agony was culminating thinking the fate of one of his peers who died
untreated after suffering from this sort of fever. He left on the roadside
with high fever, chill, rigor and repeated convulsions. After 3 days, one
kind passerby did notice and admitted him into the Mitford Hospital with his
own money. Kalam’s story
depicts more than 200,000 street children floating in Dhaka metropolitan
area. Statistics say the terrible thing regarding health status of street
children. More than 73 percent of street children in the city are victims of
physical, mental abuse and suffering from various degrees of malnutrition.
Street children across the country are out of healthcare facilities. Challenging task of
birth registration Shahnaz Parveen, The
Daily Star, 2008-06-30 thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=43440 [accessed 3 April
2011] Field level workers
of the project working closely with the street children said that collecting information
about street children is extremely challenging. “Most of the street children without
parents or lost children who ended up on the streets do not know anything
about their age or the place they were born. The runaway kids usually refrain
from giving the right information,” pointed out Ashrafun Nahar Rainy,
in-charge, Drop-in-Centre of Assistance for Slum Dwellers, one of the partner
NGOs. “Many street children who have
parents are also ignorant about their birth year or date. Even their parents
do not know anything. It becomes quite hard for us to gather information when
the situation is like this,” she added.
Rainy also mentioned that often it becomes difficult to gain their
trust in the first place. These children move from one place to another,
making it hard to trace them. Unwanted newborns and lost toddlers found in
the streets are the most challenging to work with. Educating street
children Niaz Ahmed Khan, The
Daily Star, 2008-06-26 thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=42820 [accessed 4 April
2011] Government
statistics, based on a survey by the Bangladesh Institute of Development
Studies, estimate the number of street children in The major problems
of street children are: Insecure life; physical and sexual abuse by adults of
the immediate community; harassment by law enforcing agencies; no, or
inadequate, access to educational institutions and healthcare facilities; and
lack of decent employment opportunity. Rehabilitation of
street children emphasised nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2008/05/26/news0667.htm [Last access date
unavailable] Liton, a 12-year
old boy sells betel leaves in a park and lives with his distant aunt and her
son in a slum at city's Tejgaon area.
His father is no more and his mother died when he was minor. He used
to live with her grand-mother initially and then moved to his aunt,
previously known to her late mother. His aunt, abandoned by her husband,
earns her livelihood begging. Like his
aunt, Liton also begs along with selling betel leaves. His companion Roni
is a nine year old boy, who lives in the same slum with his mother, crippled
father and a four-year old sister. Roni's father was a rickshaw puller and
sustained injuries in a road accident that left his parents beg door to door. Eight year old
Moyna sells rejected flowers from Shahbagh area to the nearby campus. She
stays with a floating family at the High court area. She lives with her
grandmother and aunt following deaths of her parents died at her early age.
Abandoned by their husbands, both her grandmother and aunt are beggars. Although Liton,
Roni and Moyna seem to earn some money by selling flowers, water and
collecting thrown away papers, their main earnings are from asking alms from
the passerby. Street dwellers
lack access to healthcare services Staff Correspondent,
The Daily Star, Street dwellers lack access to healthcare services Reveals
ICDDR,B study, 2008-05-15 thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=36629 [accessed 27
December 2014] Street dwellers in
the city are extremely vulnerable in terms of their health needs, hygiene and
utilisation of healthcare services and this marginalised group is neglected
by public and private sectors, a study conducted by It is found that
most of the street dwellers have been suffering from diseases of respiratory
and digestive system, weakness, severe pain and scabies. Zooming in on
people living on the fringes of society Ahsan Habib, The
Daily Star, Vol. 5 Num 1097, July 02, 2007 archive.thedailystar.net/2007/07/02/d707021401151.htm [accessed 8 Aug 2013] Another noteworthy
film by Nipa was a series of five documentaries on street children in Too little to raise
hope Raihan Sabuktagin,
The Daily Star, Vol. 5 Num 1096, July 01, 2007 archive.thedailystar.net/2007/07/01/d707012502115.htm [accessed 8 Aug 2013] According to U M
Habibun Nesa, head of the child protection programme of Save the Children UK,
the underprivileged vagrant children are 'socially disabled' and they could
otherwise be assets of the society. "While growing
up, these children usually experience severe malnutrition, social repugnance
and considerable vulnerability. As a result, they often grow hostility,
hatred and distrust towards the society. This hatred and distrust draw these
naďve children toward criminal activities -- tainting the society in the
process," said Habibun Nesa. "With rapid
increase in the number of vagrant population and if the present situation
continues, it will be a social disaster in the near future," she added. Call for adequate
budget allocation for street children Bss, archive.thedailystar.net/2007/06/10/d70610060273.htm [accessed 8 Aug 2013] A large number of
children are driven to the capital city and other towns for their survival as
they face immense suffering due to broken family and natural calamities and
take shelters in the streets in different cities and towns, including Dhaka
and Ensuring child
rights Md. Sazedul Islam,
PID-UNICEF Feature, 24 Jan 2007 streetchildrennews.wordpress.com/2007/01/24/ensuring-child-rights/ [accessed 16 January
2017] Nasima was brought
up at her grandmother's house along with four sisters when her mother died
when she was very young. Her father remarried. Due to physical torture and
abuse by her stepmother, she ran away from the house and came to Dhaka where
she started working as a domestic help in two houses. But she could not bear
the heavy load of works. She came to street and survived by picking waste
paper. She met the staff
of Aparajeyo Bangladesh (AB), a NGO, which has street children's club at
Arambag in the capital. She was enrolled in the center and showed interest in
her education and became an active member of the center. Due to her
self-motivation and personal development, she was transferred to AB's girls'
hostel. Nasima, 15, now
student of Class VIII, is a talented dancer and orator. She completed a
beautician course on April 2005 through the assistance of ARISE (Appropriate
Resources Improving Street Children's Environment) which is a joint project
of Ministry of Social Welfare and UNDP taken for ensuring the welfare of
street children. Bangladeshi
president postpones election and imposes state of emergency Jake Skeers, World
Socialist Web Site, 2007-01-16 www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/4150 [accessed 4 April
2011] Another indicator
is the increased use of child labour. A survey conducted by UNICEF and the
Bangladesh Ministry of Labor and Manpower released in 2004 found that there
are 7 million child workers in Bangladesh, including a large number in
hazardous industries. One fifth of the total workforce consists of children
aged 15 or under. The BBS and
International Labor Organisation surveyed children aged 5 to 17 working in
the five worst industries: welding, auto workshops, road transport, battery
recharging and recycling; and street children. It found that 149,000 children
in these sectors worked an average of nine hours a day. The majority of those
questioned said they worked six or seven days a week for little or no wages.
Children recharging and filling batteries had an average monthly wage of 313
taka ($US5.30). Street children earned an average monthly wage of just 288
taka ($US4.85) by collecting old paper, street selling, shining shoes,
portering or begging. Those in the transport sector received an average 1,417
taka ($US24) a month. Blockade forces
street children into begging Mahbuba Zannat,
November 25, 2006 streetchildrennews.wordpress.com/2006/11/25/blockade-forces-street-children-into-begging/ [accessed 16 January
2017] Street children, who
collect recyclable goods from the streets to make a living, were forced into
begging as the streets were the arena for political violence over the past
weeks. Due to increased police
vigilance over the opposition blockade programme, these homeless children
were also subjected to police abuse and repression. "Whenever I go
out to collect bhangari (recyclable goods) with a sack on my back the police
beat me up suspecting that there are cocktails or other explosives in the
sack," said Rana, a 12-year-old boy who has left home to live with other
street children at Paltan in the city.
"As I cannot go out for work I use to beg money from people and
sometime beg food from shop owners and hotel workers," he said. UNESCO: Street
Children - UN Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO www.unescobkk.org/index.php?id=3371 [accessed 4 April
2011] The Consortium of
Street Children feels that the inexperience of the Bangladeshi government in
dealing with street children and their tendency to mix the characteristics of
disadvantaged children with street children has however resulted in the
design and implementation of costly, improper, and ineffective methodologies.
The number of street children in Bangladesh continues to rise and it has
become clear that current programmes are inadequate and are failing to
successfully address this issue. Fears for Children's BBC News,
August 07 2006 news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_5250000/newsid_5253300/5253324.stm [accessed 4 April
2011] Latest figures show
there are now 670,000 homeless children living there, a third more than there
were in 2000 Rippon has been
living in a railway station for a year since his mum died. He doesn't know
how old he is. Every day he sits on
the steps of the railway station hoping to earn tips from carrying people's
suitcases and bags. Security guards often try to move him on. He said: "I
don't feel good. The police disturb us at night. They beat us. And there's no
food here. "If I'm hungry I drink
water and try to go to sleep." Concern over sexual
exploitation of street children The Daily Star Vol 5
Num 743, June 30, 2006 archive.thedailystar.net/2006/06/30/d60630060291.htm [accessed 16 January
2017] Child rights activists
yesterday expressed concern over the sexual exploitation of street children,
saying that vested quarters are using them in pornographic movies. There is an alarming rise in the
victimisation of street girls aged between 9 and 18 by pornographers, they
said and called for combined efforts of the government and NGOs to combat it. Plight of Deutsche
Presse-Agentur (German Press Agency) DPA, This article has
been archived by World Street Children News and may possibly still be
accessible there [accessed 4 April
2011] The plight of
hundreds of thousands of street children in A survey carried
out by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, an autonomous think
tank, revealed that the number of street children across the country soared
to 674,000 in 2005, up by over 244,000 from 2000. Street children
continue to be victims of abuse Mahbuba Zannat,
April 26, 2006 archive.thedailystar.net/2006/04/26/d604262503131.htm [accessed 16 January
2017] Even the boys are
not safe in the streets. According to a survey conducted by Incidin
Bangladesh on 100 street boys between seven and 12 years at Kamalapur last
year, it was found that at least 94 percent children were victims of
molestation. Ground-breaking
surveys expose plight of International Labour
Organization ILO News, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21
September 2011] The most detailed
picture ever compiled of the conditions endured by Bangladesh’s most
disadvantaged children - those working in what are classified as the worst
forms of child labor – has revealed that many are working 10 hours a day, 6
days a week, sometimes for only food and a bed. The youngest economically active children
surveyed were the street children. On average they started their first job
aged just seven; a quarter of those interviewed were aged under 11 and 73 per
cent under 14. BBC News, 15
February, 2002 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1822200.stm [accessed 4 April
2011] Every morning as
the sun rises a host of children walk across this vast mound of rotting rubbish
scavenging for used plastic water bottles or similar rubbish. They can sell these items for a paltry fee
to a second-hand shop that operates on the outskirts of the dump. There are least 20 children who live in the
dump. BBC News, 15
January, 2002 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1762172.stm [accessed 4 April
2011] They face a daily
routine of exploitation and violence and like other street children in the
world often end up in a life of crime.
The report says it is impossible to calculate exactly how many street
children there are in total, but it is generally thought to be approaching
two million. Street Children
Suffer Sexual Abuse Qurratul Ain
Tahmina, Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.aegis.com/news/ips/2001/IP011104.html [accessed 4 April
2011] "These men can
easily lure the children with food, money and kind words and eventually abuse
them sexually. This happens to boys and girls equally," he says. Homosexual practices, too, are very high
among the boys." Information about
Street Children - Bangladesh [DOC] This report is taken
from “A Civil Society Forum for South Asia on Promoting and Protecting the Rights
of Street Children”, 12- 14 December 2001, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21
September 2011] Estimated number of
street children in Street and Working
Children in Fakrul Islam, Child
Workers in At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21
September 2011] In Street Children Can
Be Made Into Social Assets The New Age, April
17 2004 bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidType=TOP&hidRecord=0000000000000000006206 [accessed 4 April
2011] streetchildrennews.wordpress.com/2004/04/17/street-children-can-be-made-into-social-assets/ [accessed 21
November 2016] Pakhi
is now living a decent life, having being given some education. She works at
a data entry firm and earns an adequate amount of money. “I am confident and believe I can do many
things like others who are from the privileged section of the society”. Street Girls Find a
World Vision New At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21
September 2011] When 11-year-old
Moina Akter fled her village home in the Chandpur District and hopped on a bus
to CSKS - A Street
Children Program in Cinnamul-Shishu
Kishore Sangstha CSKS, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21
September 2011] The approach of
CSKS is based on the philosophy that helping street children requires offering
them choices within their environment and assisting them to make their own
decisions, which will in time lead away from the street. The mistaken belief that rescuing street
children involves removing them from the street as quickly as possible often
does more harm than good, resulting in failed rehabilitation and a return to
the street. Experimenting With
New Ideas: IDF and Padakhep Zain Bari, Grameen
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