Street boy in eid

Eid is one of the happy moment in every persons life.But all street children is not celebrate the eid. Because almost all the two lakh children can hardly manage two-time meals a day, let alone buy new dresses to celebrate Eid,

The street boy in ramadan

Ramadan is a month-long religious festival also celebrated in Bangladesh that culminates in the very important holiday of Eid-ul-Fitr.During the ramadan the street boy have some good opportunity to earn many.This month they work in a iftari shop and back up some protect of their family.

Street children in kenya

There will be much to mourn and less to celebrate tomorrow as the number of children on Kenyan streets keeps increasing steadily and the street children continue to suffer. They lack basic needs, have health problems and are exposed to illicit drugs, communicable diseases and sexually transmitted diseases.

Street children in pakistan

We see street children everywhere in Karachi and other urban areas of Pakistan. They usually sell flowers, cloths, books and copies, or polish boots or collect garbage and some survive on begging. Some people even look at them as petty criminals.

Street children in mongolia

Mongolia's streets are home to 4000 children who live their lives doing anything from begging, stealing, sex work to a host of other menial tasks to stay alive.

Street children in philippines

75% of street children in the Philippines spend the night in the homes of their families, but spend the rest of the day working in the street. Between 25%-30% of street children often create a sort of family among fellow street children, and some of them may maintain an interrupted relationship with their families and the homes of their families. 5%-10% of street children are completely abandoned.

Street children in brazil

The Federal Government estimates that 31,992 adults live on the streets in Brazil. There are no national statistics for minors. An NGO, putting together various local government counts and other estimates, arrived at c. 9578 street-dwellers younger than 18, in state capitals; it estimates they number 25,000 nation-wide. It has also been pointed out that most minors living on the streets are adolescents, rather than children

Street children in romania

Romania has an estimated 6,000 plus homeless children living on the streets, most having run away from institutions or family abuse. As Romania's notorious institutions are being closed down, the numbers are on the increase.

Street children in vietnam

According to data by the Street Educators’ Club, the number of street children in Vietnam has shrunk from 21,000 in 2003 to 8,000 in 2007. The number dropped from 1,507 to 113 in Hanoi and from 8,507 to 794 in Ho Chi Minh City. In the meantime the number of migrant children is increasing. This number is, however, unconfirmed owing to varying definitions of street children.

Street children in russia

In Russia , street children usually find a home in underground pipe and cable collectors during the harsh winter. These underground homes offer space, shelter and most importantly of all, heat from hot water and central heating pipes.

Russia has 1 million street children, and one in four crimes involves underage youths. Officially, the number of children without supervision is more than 700,000. However, experts believe the real figure has long been between 2 and 4 million.

Street children in india

India is home to the world’s largest population of street children, estimated at 18 million. The Republic of India is the seventh largest and second most populous country in the world. With acceleration in economic growth, India has become one of the fastest growing developing countries. This has created a rift between poor and rich; 22 percent of the population lives below the income poverty line. Owing to unemployment, increasing rural-urban migration, attraction of city life and a lack of political will, India now has one of the largest number of child laborers in the world.

Street children in uk

There are three categories of young people who could be considered street children in a UK context:

· Children who run away, leave home or are thrown out, commonly referred to as ‘Runaways’:young people who stay away from home for at least one night without the permission of their parent or carer. About a quarter of runaways will sleep outside.

· Homeless: someone who has no home where they can be expected to live, and who may be staying with friends, in a hostel or in a shelter.

· Street homeless: someone who is homeless and sleeping rough outside on the street or elsewhere.

Life in the streets in dhaka

Life in the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh is tough. Children and their families live under small tarps along sidewalks.Children of all ages must help provide for the family. Some make firewood while others search through garbage for useful items. Below are some of the children I met in Dhaka in February 2010.

Types of work

Children do different types of work.Breaking bricks may cause damage to the fingers and for that a rubber made finger glove could be worn.Chips of brick may jump into eye and cause harm.Another job is welding.This work is inappropriate for children.When they works for welding,they uses protective glass for the eye.Another work is motor mechanic.This working children working with chemical and acid.Acid used in car battery.If this acid went into the eye than that would destroy the vision.Another work is carrying heavy load or bricks up the stairs.Some people said,they should not come into this type of works.Going up the stairs and getting the dried cloths from the roof was considered as hazardous.They felt this was dangerous.

Child domestic worker

Child Domestic service is a widespread practice in Bangladesh.The majority of child domestics tend to be 12 and 17 years old.But children as young as 5 or 6 years old can also be found working.A survey of child domestic workers found that 38 percent were 11 to 13 years old and nearly 24 percent were 5 to 10 years old.Child domestics works long hours,getting up well before their employers and going to bed long after them.on 50 percent domestic workers work 12- 14 hours a day.Irrespective of their gender,Child domestic carry out all sorts of household work.Boys often perform tasks like going to the grocery,cleaning the drain,talking the garbage to roadside bins,washing the car and sell nuts etc.On the other hand,girls have to iron the cloths,attend phone calls and serves the guests.The child domestic workers are often the least paid in the society,their remuneration ranging from 80 taka to 400 taka per month.In most of the cases,they hand over all their earnings to their parents,leaving nothing for themselves.

Condition of the tokai

Child service is a widespread practice in Bangladesh.They are so poor.Although children are employed as domestic throughout the country,They have overwhelmingly high concentration in the cities.Employers in the urban areas usually recruit children from their village home through family,friends or contacts.Most of the domestic child workers comes from vulnerable families,many of them being orphans children.A good number of them are from having the single-parent families.Child domestic work very long hours,getting up well before their employers and going to bed long after them.On an average 5 percent children workers work 13-14 hours in a day.The domestic child workers works in oil,soap,towel,comb,cloths company.Boys often perform tasks like going to grocery,cleaning the drain,taking the garbage to roadside bins washing the cars.

Tokai

In Bangladesh, we see different kind of boys, who are collects different kinds of garbage in their sackand they sell it vangari shop(shop that buy any kind of waste product).They are so poor and are called “Tokai”.It is a one kind of child labour.Majority of the tokai’s belong to the age group 7-15 years but aged tokai also found.Basically tokai’s workplace is mainly public places,bus,train launch terminals,shopping area,streets,residential areas ,dustbin etc.





They work daily 8-10 hours and also average income per day less 70 taka.They have no skills.Sometimes,they works under a group or independently.NGOs have tkaen different programmes for the welfare of the tokai.They are hopeless.they have no identity.some are houseless.

Tokai (video)

Tokai Bangla word meaning collector. It usually refers to poor children who collect left out things from streets, dustbins, houses and other public places for recycling.If we see the video then we can easily understand their life.

The present situation

A boy sells tea on the street in Dhaka. Although child labor is illegal in Bangladesh an estimated 4.9 million Bangladeshi children aged 5 to 15 are working according to UNICEF. They often work in hazardous environments and have little access to education. According to a recent World Bank study, Bangladesh is among at least 33 countries that are at risk of serious political unrest if food and fuel prices keep rising. Bangladesh is currently one of the world's poorest countries, where nearly 40 percent of the 144 million population survive on less than a dollar a day and on average spend eighty percent of their income on food.

Friendship

They have many problems but their friendship is very strong.

Lack of education

In Bangladesh most of the street do not go to school. Because they have no facilities for this sectors.Our Government is not sincere of this problem.

Share with other

Street boy eat food by the kindness of others but they have a simple mind to help others.

Work in the state

Some of the children are on the street - they work, play and spend most of their day with other children on the street but have families to return to at night. These children often help the family earn money by working on the streets.
Other children are of the street - they survive without family, entirely on their own, except for the company of other street children or those willing to help and support them.

What do they eat?

Street children in Dhaka city lead a very measurable life. They eat various kinds of things. But from where they get it? Most of they have to face of kindness of people. Some time they have to face the rude behave from people. In these pictures one boy is eating food sitting by a loan place. He also shared it with his companion. He and his companion always share all things. If any one gives some money they also divide it equally.

Life style

There are children belonging to very poor families who are deprived and unprivileged and sometime marginalized. Among them there are street children without parents, home or any type of shelter. There are slum children living in the street side or by the side of rail line. These children begin each of the days with the tension of collecting foods. In which age, they should go to school; they have to go in search of livelihood. They have to work hard till the night. Even sometime they have to be involved in different types of risky jobs, which are threats to their lives.

Street boy in crime

A large number of street boys in Dhaka city and nine sub-district of the district have got involved in different types of crime as criminals use them as convenient accomplices.

Poverty and wayward life of their parents, loss of shelters due to natural calamities, drug addiction, bigamy or polygamy of parents and missing during journey from one place to another are among the factors that are responsible for a large number of street boys' get involved in crimes, says the report.

Many of these hapless street boys are being picked up by criminals for keeping arms, throwing bombs at targets, selling drugs and pilferage of food grains for small amount of money, the project manager quoted the survey report as saying.

Style of street boy

This boys left hand is tucked inside his shirt in order to hide the jar of yellow glue that he is inhaling to get high. It is this very addiction that makes it so hard for the kids to leave the streets. They may check into a program for a week or two, but soon the addiction to the yellow glue calls them back to the streets.

Street Boy

Street Boy is a boy who has no living place and always stand inside the road. Street boys involved in prostitution living in the street, face numerous hazards every moment of their lives.The street child’s access to basic amenities, primary education, health, and legal protection, is largely excluded under the present policies and program.