street children
Unsupervised urban minors
Street children are minors who live or work primarily on the streets, often homeless or with minimal family supervision.
The term encompasses children who have been abandoned, run away, or whose families cannot provide adequate shelter.
Street children typically survive through begging, informal work, or sometimes petty crime, and face heightened risks of exploitation, abuse, and health problems.
NGOs in the city provide food and education programs for street children.
- orphansChildren whose parents died
- homelessWithout a dwelling
- runaway youthChild who fled home
- waifsHomeless, neglected young ones
- sleeping roughLiving without housing
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- child welfarechild protection, child welfare, foster care, child services, foster home
- Global Povertymalnutrition, starvation, food security, clean water, dirty water
- Russian childhood literatureorphans, child protagonists, childhood, coming-of-age, foundlings
- Victorian childhoodfoundlings, urchins, waifs, orphanages, chimney sweeps
- Victorian reformpoor laws, poorhouse, temperance movement, abolitionists, child labor
- regional crisespoverty, inequality, violence, crime, corruption
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