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Street Children: A Threatening Social Problem Contributed by: Danilo R. Zuño,Sr./Danilo T. Zuño,Jr.
Street Children - Definition of our Target Group
According to the definition of Ahmed Sedik in the second publication of PDCR entitled “City Initiative (1) for the Protection of Street Children and Children Doing Marginal Work” , a street child is “every child, male or female, who lacks a place of residence, spends the night in places not appropriate for that for six months or more, whether he/she is defying their parents’ authority or that of their guardian, is forced into that status by one of the parents, or has escaped to the street as a result of family, economic, psychological, vocational, or educational conditions. ” Sedik also puts forward a general definition of marginal work children that encompasses the following categories:
their own or together with the father or mother).
and are thus deprived of vocational and family care and often do not continue their education as a result.
selling operations; they are forced to spend the night on the street in order to save transportation fees, often with the consent of their parents.
a state of physical and psychological exhaustion.
take away a proportion of the money they earn; or else some adults might collect the children to perform selling in their interest in return to a specific wage, often using force against the children.
Dr. Ahmed Sadik Director Center for the Protection and Development of the Child and his Rights
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