Street Children

The street children are those who move along the roads and have no definite place or house to live in.They move on streets, eat the leftover from the roadside dustbins and sleep on footpaths. In Western societies, such children are treated as homeless children rather than criminals or beggars. Street children can be found in a large majority of the world's cities, with the phenomenon more prevalent in densely populated urban hubs of developing or economically unstable regions, such as countries in Africa, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia. Some of them earn their livelihood by working as a coolie. Some live by serving as a helpmate in a house, some by doing some odd business.  The street children do not get financial support to maintain their expenditure from their parents. They have been left by their parents either because of having illegal birth or because their parents have got married twice or thrice. Moreover, these children are deprived of many rights of a citizen. They are often subject to abuse, neglect, exploitation, or, in extreme cases, murder by "clean-up squads" that have been hired by local businessmen or police. They cannot enjoy the fundamental needs of life, do not get the opportunity of being educated. Furthermore they cannot eat a square meal, let alone medical treatment. Thus, they remain underprivileged.