Street Children

Street children are minors who live and survive on the

streets. They often grow up in public landfills, train stations,
our under the bridges of the world’s major cities. Because of
conflicts with their family, these children don’t want to or
can’t return home.
 Causes

• Most children leave home as a result of death of

their parents and domestic violence. When parents
die, some children face hostility and fail to get
basic support and care, so they retreat to the
streets. Others flee home due to poverty, with the
perception that they will get economic
opportunities in the streets. Some children are also
rejected by their families, due to reasons such as
disability and diseases. They get exploited and
abused in order to get food.
 Effect

For every cause there is effect, and there are

devastating effects on street children
themselves and on the society they belong to.
The children without education are without
future, which means that they will not be able to
defend their future and they will face lots of
difficulties to have a better life.
Moreover, being undernourished from such a
very young age causes bad side effects on their
health like malnutrition which effects there
immune system and as a result shorter life
expectancy
They may expose themselves to very cruel
situations like prostitution, sexual violations,
drug consumption and other forms of modern
slavery.
 Solution
• Turn over the children to the
DSWD
• Give them some foods
• Form a small group to volunteer
as a teacher in street children
 MEMBER
• June Bellos
• Sean Brian Cruz
• Haniel Dan V. Estember
• Christian Jalbo
• John Jade Layson