Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Did you know?



  • When the street kids are on the street, there is usually a leader. There leader’s duty is to protect the younger ones. The younger ones must give money to the ones that are protecting them(older ones). This makes the younger kids to depend to the ones that are offering help, in such a way that they will do whatever they are told to by their seniors.




  • There are many organizations which are working with children who live on the streets. Most of them are Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), these organizations assist the children with shelter, or food, some even assist them with schooling, yet they are never able to win the battle, children are still living on the street!




  • The department of social well fair has social workers who try and work with the kids; at most times the social workers try to take the kids back to the community, other organizations do the same; they try and reconnect the kids with their families or relatives.


  • What is always depressing is to see these kids within weeks or few months back on the street. Even the ones who are taken to school do return to the street.



  • Section 28 of the Bill of Rights, entitled "Children" is totally against what is happening, these children are not in a family care or parental care, and there is no alternative care on the streets as they are also not in a family environment, in which this is not according to what the bill states.

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