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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.