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2 unusual facts about Street children


Street children

Diyarbakır is one of the eastern cities where most of Turkey's remaining street children live.

There are an estimated 250,000 street children in Kenya and over 60,000 in the capital Nairobi.


Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya

The Angel of Grozny of the book's title is a Chechen woman Hadijat Gatayeva who has turned their home into an orphanage for street children of the war.

Families and Children for Empowerment and Development

It facilitates leadership development, empowerment, organizational development and social services among street children, urban poor children and their families in identified urban poor areas of Districts V and VI (Paco and Pandacan) Manila.

Good Shepherd Homes

Good Shepherd Homes is a British charity which provides care for street children and orphans in West India.

Kinshasa Kids

Set in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the film focuses on a group of street kids, expelled from their homes after being accused of witchcraft, who form a hip hop group while a documentary crew films their efforts.

La Raulito

The film tells the story of a real life fan of Boca Juniors football club, Mary Esher Duffau, who as a teenage girl adopted the identity of a man in order to survive on the streets of Buenos Aires.

Social apartheid in Brazil

Tobias Hecht writes that rich Brazilians see the often violent street children as a threat, so they try to marginalize them socially and keep them and the poverty they represent hidden from lives of the wealthy elite.

The Forgotten Children of Congo

From the remoteness of the Congo Basin, to the capital Kinshasa and the volatile Ituri Province in the East, this documentary focuses on the plight of the country's street children.


see also

Brothers of St. Charles Lwanga

St. Charles Lwanga School was opened in Nairobi in 1991 to provide support and education to children in the poorest sectors of the city, through education and working with street children.

Families and Children for Empowerment and Development

FCED decided to focus its assistance to street children and urban poor children and their families in 13 low income Barangays of District V and VI in Paco and Pandacan, in the city of Manila.

FilmAid International

2002 - Afghanistan: FilmAid brings screenings of The Wizard of Oz and Children of Heaven to street children in Kabul, giving many of them their first ever experience of film, and also of music, both of which had been banned under Taliban rule.

Human trafficking in Kenya

City Council Social Services Departments in Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu operated shelters to rehabilitate street children vulnerable to forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation; the government provided services to children exploited in the commercial sex industry at these facilities.

Kesz Váldez

Kesz together with his guardian Harnin Manalaysay founded the Championing Community Children, an organization which aims at giving hope and showing the street children they can transform their own lives and inspire others to do so as well.