Street Children

Street Children

The children who live in the street and have no definite place to live are called street children. Their condition is very pathetic. They roam here and there on the streets, eat the leftover food from the roadside dustbins and sleep on footpaths or stations. Some of them earn their livelihood working as a porter. Some live by begging, some by serving as a servant in the houses, some by stealing things from shops and houses, and some by selling flowers. Some of them collect pieces of paper, old plastic things, torn shoes, etc. They do these jobs mainly for living. They are deprived of their basic rights such as food, shelter, clothing and education. They are very helpless. When they grow up, they involve themselves into illegal activities such as pocket picking and snatching. These street children have no family identity. Their parents have left them on the streets .Finding no other alternative, they take shelter on the streets. They do not get any medical facilities. So they suffer from malnutrition and get attacked with various diseases at their early age. These street children never go to school. The government should take necessary steps to upgrade their status so that they can live as human beings and enjoy their basic rights.