They can be found juggling at traffic lights, cleaning windshields, separating and collecting garbage, or walking at any time in public places in search of alms. Some spend their nights in parks, abandoned buildings, under bridges, stairs.
Others work all day and return home at nightfall. These are the guys on the street, silent pilgrims in the city, wandering victims of poverty and neglect of the adult world, a world that is increasingly less able to provide containment and guarantee their rights. Facing
premature adulthood, these children are forced to work to meet their basic needs, away from home and school, seriously compromising resigning their health and their education.
are part of a vicious cycle that perpetuates social exclusion in the country: children and adolescents on the streets, deprived of developing skills that are closely linked to their greater employability in the future.
Official statistics show that childhood is the sector most beaten by poverty, one which bears more strongly the weight of the crisis. Enlargement and deepening coordination of public policies for children, along with the active participation of civil society organizations, are a key challenge of this, because the future welfare the country depends on the healthy development of children today.
child exclusion numbers
40.9% of children and adolescents from poor country (Source: PHS 2006).
14.3% are homeless (Source: PHS 2006).
10% of school age children not attending school (Source: UNESCO 2005).
19.4% is the annual dropout rate of high school (Source: M. Edu.'s Office 2006).
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