 TREET CHILDREN
 Street children are young people who spend a considerable time living and or working on the streets of the worldˇ¦s cities. Different countries describe street children in different ways. However, two general categories have been frequently used to describe them.
  Children living and working in the street.
Children working on the streets
who maintain regular contact
with their families.
Reality Situation of Street Children in Asia
The working street child works from 6 to
16 hours, often in a combination of
ˇ§ occupations ˇ¨.
Street children usually come from large families, with six to ten children per family.
Street children are generally malnourished and anemic, many of them physically stunted.
Street children suffer psychologically from undue family pressures, abuses and
neglect at home. Very often, they develop low self-esteem.
Street children are prone to street fights and bullying from bigger youth, harassment
from policemen, suspicion and arrest for petty crimes, abuse and torture from misguided
authorities.
Street children usually come from broken families.
There are more boys than girls. Female children are disadvantaged because of their sex;
they do more housework and are prone to sexual abuses.
Parents of street children are preoccupied with earning a living, oftentimes engaged in
irregular
low-paying jobs as construction workers, vendors, and scavengers.
 
REAMS FOR
STREET CHILDREN IN MONGOLIA
Humanitarian Affairs has realised the need for the street children in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia who have yet to be member of a gang and who were trying to fend for themselves by begging and scavenging for food.
Mongolia has a rather harsh winter, which can see temperature plunged to minus 45 degree. These street children has to retort to crime with the hope of being put into prison, as it is warm inside and food are provided too.
Humanitarian Affairs will partner with the Local Government to set-up a Ger Shelter for the street children. The Mongolians are strongly traditional and so many of them live in gers.
An Amazing Grace Children Village will be the name of this Ger Village where the children could be safe, attend local schools and train in social skills.
We hope to nurture the street children to be a responsible member of the society but contributing to the development of their country.
The Ger Village hopes to open in December 2008.
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