According to UNICEF, street children are defined as girls or boys under 18 who live on the streets and rely on the streets as their home and/or source of livelihood, without adequate protection or supervision from responsible adults. The document discusses that there are an estimated 10-100 million street children globally, primarily in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Street children face difficulties finding food, water, healthcare, shelter, and experience a lack of parental protection or emotional support. Common causes of street children include violence in the family, encouragement to leave home, a desire for freedom or money, peer influence, and poverty. Governments have established shelters and work with organizations to help street children, but their numbers remain high due to
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3. ACCORDING TO UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS
EMERGENCY FUND (UNICEF) THE MOST COMMON DEFINITION OF A
STREET CHILD IS ANY GIRL OR BOY WHO HAS NOT REACHED
ADULTHOOD, FOR WHOM THE STREET (IN THE BROADEST SENSE OF
THE WORD, INCLUDING UNOCCUPIED DWELLINGS, WASTELAND,
ETC.) HAS BECOME HER OR HIS HABITUAL ABODE AND/OR SOURCES
OF LIVELIHOOD, AND WHO IS INADEQUATELY PROTECTED,
SUPERVISED OR DIRECTED BY RESPONSIBLE ADULTS (P 90).
4. THE EPIDEMIC OF
STREET CHILDREN IS A
GLOBAL ISSUE
Global urbanization is
attributed to growing
numbers of homeless
children
Many children leave their
homes in smaller towns to
work in larger cities
Estimations on how many
children are living on the
street is between 10
million and 100 million
globally
Street children move
frequently and are often
reluctant of adults so
information on the children
is limited
Poverty, violence, lack of
family support, and hunger
are some of the main
reasons children choose to
move to the street
Street children are
typically between the ages
of 6 and 17 years old and
live without adult support
Africa, Asia and Latin
America have the highest
number of street children
Almost all countries have
children who are homeless
and living in the streets
5. GROUPING
UNICEF has defined three types of
street children: Street-Living, Street-
Working, and Street-Family.
7. Characteristic of Street Children
1. Street children face difficulties in providing themselves with
good sources of food, clean drinking water, health care
services, toilets and bath facilities, and adequate shelter.
2. They also suffer from absence of parental protection and
security due to the missing connection with their families.
3. In addition, there is a lack of any kind of moral and emotional
support (Lugalla and Mbwambo, 1999).
4. The average age at which street children start living on the
streets is between 9 and 12 years old.
5. They keep living on the streets until they reach the age of 15 to
16. When they became older they start to look for stable jobs
with better wages (Rizzini et al., 1994).
11. 1) Violence in the family
2) Encouragement family
3) Want free
4) Want to have your own money
5) The influence of friends
From research results of Hening Budiyawati (in Odi
Shalahudin, 2000: 11) states that the factors that cause
children to go to the streets based on reason and the
narrative they are due to:
13. Assesment in cooperation with various
community agencies.
Government also has provided more than 400
shelters that are useful to accommodate street
children in Indonesia.
14. Ministry of Social Affairs
is preparing a budget of
Rp 184 billion for the
handling of 140,000
street children in 2010. Perform a variety of co-
operation with other
social institutions such as
Save the Children.
18. Street children is a term for children experiencing
homelessness who live on the streets of a city.
Homeless youth are often called street kids and
street youth; the definition of street children is
contested, but many practitioners and
policymakers use UNICEFs concept of boys and
girls, aged under eighteen years, for whom "the
street" (including unoccupied dwellings and
wasteland) has become home and/or their source
of livelihood, and who are inadequately protected
or supervised.
19. ADVICE
Suggestions for People
There needs to be awareness of the public to not
get used to give some money to street children.
Because this condition is what makes street
children comfortable to live and make a living on
the streets. If people want to contribute or charity
can be through shelters, charity or nursing home
up bringing.