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Care, Homeless Children!

Millions of children around the world live homeless on the streets, deprived of basic needs like housing, food, and clothing. They are often called "Nobody's Children" or "Throw away Kids" and live each day without family or hope for the future. Various factors contribute to children becoming homeless, including family problems like broken homes, parental neglect or abuse, and poverty. Many homeless children turn to substance abuse, crime, or gangs to survive or find belonging. While organizations work to help these children through charities and reform programs, homelessness remains a widespread and complex issue tied to broader social problems.

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Care, Homeless Children!

Millions of children around the world live homeless on the streets, deprived of basic needs like housing, food, and clothing. They are often called "Nobody's Children" or "Throw away Kids" and live each day without family or hope for the future. Various factors contribute to children becoming homeless, including family problems like broken homes, parental neglect or abuse, and poverty. Many homeless children turn to substance abuse, crime, or gangs to survive or find belonging. While organizations work to help these children through charities and reform programs, homelessness remains a widespread and complex issue tied to broader social problems.

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CARE, HOMELESS CHILDREN!

Around the world millions of children are


found homeless, sleeping in the streets, under
bridges, or on deserted properties.They prey
on each other as well as people passing by
that they manage to steal from. Yet still this is
home to these children, where they are
deprived of the most basic human needs,
housing, food, and clothing.

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Since they have no family or relatives and no
hope for the future, they have been tagged
"Nobody's Children" or "Throw away Kids",
living each day as if it were the last, causing
them to become outlaws, which as a result is
a threat to the security of the community we
live in. There are various reasons that children
are found homeless, ranging from their own
desire to leave home to become independent
of their parents rules, to broken marriage

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where the father is absent from the family
which is the most likely cause. However some
parents are irresponsible in caring for their
children.

Some parents beat them, sexually abuse


them, or throw them out of the family into
the streets to fend for themselves, resulting in
the child feeling that he or she is better off by
his or her self, even living on the streets.
Statistics show that sixty percent of the
homeless children between eight and
seventeen years of age use hallucinating
substances, forty percent use alcoholic
beverages, sixteen percent are drug addicts,
and ninety two percent use tobacco products.
In an effort to belong and be loved many of
these homeless children find themselves
becoming family members to gangs
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promoting further negativity in their lives.

Since they don't have any marketable skills,


they often survive by begging, stealing, and
selling their bodies for money. It is not easy to
help homeless children because the majority
of them are afraid, and they refuse to submit
information to authorities. Some homeless
children have managed to escape from the
homeless condition because of help from kind
people and their own willingness to learn and
work to overcome the anxieties and
insecurities that homelessness offered them.
There have been efforts on the part of
organizations to solve the problem by means
of charities, foster homes, orphanage, and
reform.

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India has an estimated one million or more
street children in each of the following cities:
New Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai. When
considering India as a whole, there are over
eleven million children who earn their living
off the streets in cities and rural areas. It is
more common for street children to be male
and the average age is fourteen. Although
adolescent girls are more protected by
families than boys are, when girls do break
the bonds they are often worse off than boys
are, as they are lured into prostitution. The
Republic of India is the seventh-largest and
second-most populated country in the world.
Due to the acceleration in economic growth,

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an economic rift has appeared, with just over
thirty-two per cent of the population living
below the poverty line.[34] Owing to
unemployment, increasing rural-urban
migration, the attraction of city life, and a lack
of political will, India has developed one of
the largest child labor forces in the world.

But in spite of these efforts and funds


expended by the government the problem
continues to rise because solving today's
housing problems and meeting tomorrows
housing needs prove to be an overwhelming
task for the government because the problem

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of housing shortage and homelessness is not
an isolated issue. Other problems such as
population growth, poverty, unemployment,
and inflation has to be addressed and without
successfully handling these problems there
doesn't seem to be much hope for the
homeless whether he or she is adult or child
having what is basic to human needs: shelter.

According to a report from 1988 of the


Consortium for Street Children, a United
Kingdom-based consortium of related non-
governmental organizations (NGOs), UNICEF
estimated that 100 million children were
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growing up on urban streets around the
world. Fourteen years later, in 2002 UNICEF
similarly reported, "The latest estimates put
the numbers of these children as high as one
hundred million". More recently the
organization added, "The exact number of
street children is impossible to quantify, but
the figure almost certainly runs into tens of
millions across the world. It is likely that the
numbers are increasing.

The causes of this phenomenon are varied,


but are often related to domestic, economic,
or social disruption. This includes, but is not
limited to: poverty; breakdown of homes

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and/or families; political unrest; acculturation;
sexual, physical or emotional abuse; domestic
violence; being lured away by pimps, internet
predators, or begging syndicates; mental
health problems; substance abuse; and sexual
orientation or gender identity issues.Children
may end up on the streets due to cultural
factors. For example, some children in parts of
the Congo and Uganda are made to leave
their families on suspicion of being witches
who bring bad luck

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As the above quote mentions, "they are not
the problem, they are the Result of
problem!"
THEY DON'T NEED YOUR PITY,THEY NEED
YOUR HELP!
PROJECT BY
1. R.GUNWANTH KUMAR
2. INDRA SNENA REDDY
3.GOWTHAM

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