Compassion 4 Kids International Helping Street Children since October 2005
Definitions of a Street Child
To the left: Joe talks to a number of street children that were brought to the house off the streets so he would be able to listen to their plight. Sixteen of them were found and brought to this home and later given a very good meal before they left to the streets again.Joe relates to you that when you sit down and listen to their stories, your heart sinks and you have to work hard to keep your composure. "Listening to their stories is somewhat hard to listen to," Joe said, "as we are not ready to permanently help them, to take them off the streets." Sometimes wheels turn pretty slow in making it possible to financially help a child. But when it is there, WOW, what a feeling to see the change in their facial expressions when they learn they have a home.
There are primarily two definitions:
1. A child that is sent by a parent or supervising adult to the street to beg for money and food to take home. (Up to 50% of the children on the streets. You can tell them from full time kids as they are clean, neat, and trim.)
2. A child that has been abused, leave or asked to leave the home and not come back, or orphaned (see more below) and no responsible adult wants to take the orphan into their home whether friend, family, or relative.
3. With the exception to any rule, a small percentage of those that leave home will have periodic contact with a sibling from the family they came from or their mother.
The number of children meeting definition #2 is estimated to be 15 to 20 million in India. They live and sleep on thestreets. The Indian government does have a very small program that provides for a very limited amount of children in a few of their orphanages that are brought to them.
They have no social status in either country. There is no Human Services department within the government to fund, help, or provide guidance for these children.
For most of the alliances (gangs) survive with other alliances by testing their ability to beg or steal in another gang's alliance area. If it works they capitalize on their infringement of that part of the city until fighting starts and the loser leaves.
Slum Children: Slum as an area of the city marked as being in poverty and having inferior living conditions. Most children in slum areas live without being able to have security or stability. These homes are almost always illegal. From time to time the government wants to rehabilitate the area and move them to far away remote areas. Then they demolish the so called buildings. They are removed to place that sever them from all other social cast levels with no educational means for anyone.
At this time we do not have a program for slum children.
Orphans / abandoned children: Orphaned children, being they have no parents, have a very hard time being accepted into homes of relatives or family friends. These orphaned children become orphaned because of death, the parents just disappear, just abandon them, or are deserted by the last live parent. Some are thrown out because of a disability and cannot help the family earn additional income by begging.
Sexual Abuse: A boy from age 8 to 10 years old on the streets must always know of their surroundings for pedophiles search them out, give them attention and care for a few days and then begin to rape them, ruining them for life. Too high of a percentage are murdered when the pedophile is done with them. Girls, 8 to 10 years old are prime target for the adults that are looking for new girls to indoctrinate them into prostitution. These girls are threatened of death if they do not abide by “the rules”. Even vacationing American men can get one, two, or three girls for $15 to do whatever they ask.
Child Abuse: In the home, children are abused for many reasons of which one is that they do not earn enough money by begging. They are given an amount to earn this way, and a time limit (maybe per month) to earn from $0.50 to $1.00 or more and if they do not obtain that goal, they are punished in one of many different ways. Some are punished by a belt, stick of wood, hanging upside down from the ceiling rafters, being hit with a fist, and/or by severe verbal abuse. Some are punished by cutting off all their hair or scared with a hot charcoal stick. At some point the child will leave, not to return.
Sexual, emotional, and physical abuse is done in different degrees. At first the child learns to hide the outward seen symptoms but at sometime it is time for them to leave and this can be from age 5 and up. The scars are for life unless some one like us, which there are very few, can find them and take them into our care with respect, honor and the most important part, love.
Street Children just happen by usually no choice on their behalf. Adults die, don't want them any more, or abuse them on way or another. Within a few months they are hard core Street Children being used by any adult that can find them. Read the Statistics for India and find the very, very said realm that these children live. WE want YOU to provide the additional support to take one or more children from this "not a child's life" into giving them a home, love, care, and being safe, to grow into being a responsible adult. Go to our Sponsor a Child Page and contact us right NOW.
This love is possible through your love of children and you commitment to caring for a child with your support.
There are primarily two definitions:
1. A child that is sent by a parent or supervising adult to the street to beg for money and food to take home. (Up to 50% of the children on the streets. You can tell them from full time kids as they are clean, neat, and trim.)
2. A child that has been abused, leave or asked to leave the home and not come back, or orphaned (see more below) and no responsible adult wants to take the orphan into their home whether friend, family, or relative.
3. With the exception to any rule, a small percentage of those that leave home will have periodic contact with a sibling from the family they came from or their mother.
The number of children meeting definition #2 is estimated to be 15 to 20 million in India. They live and sleep on thestreets. The Indian government does have a very small program that provides for a very limited amount of children in a few of their orphanages that are brought to them.
They have no social status in either country. There is no Human Services department within the government to fund, help, or provide guidance for these children.
For most of the alliances (gangs) survive with other alliances by testing their ability to beg or steal in another gang's alliance area. If it works they capitalize on their infringement of that part of the city until fighting starts and the loser leaves.
Slum Children: Slum as an area of the city marked as being in poverty and having inferior living conditions. Most children in slum areas live without being able to have security or stability. These homes are almost always illegal. From time to time the government wants to rehabilitate the area and move them to far away remote areas. Then they demolish the so called buildings. They are removed to place that sever them from all other social cast levels with no educational means for anyone.
At this time we do not have a program for slum children.
Orphans / abandoned children: Orphaned children, being they have no parents, have a very hard time being accepted into homes of relatives or family friends. These orphaned children become orphaned because of death, the parents just disappear, just abandon them, or are deserted by the last live parent. Some are thrown out because of a disability and cannot help the family earn additional income by begging.
Sexual Abuse: A boy from age 8 to 10 years old on the streets must always know of their surroundings for pedophiles search them out, give them attention and care for a few days and then begin to rape them, ruining them for life. Too high of a percentage are murdered when the pedophile is done with them. Girls, 8 to 10 years old are prime target for the adults that are looking for new girls to indoctrinate them into prostitution. These girls are threatened of death if they do not abide by “the rules”. Even vacationing American men can get one, two, or three girls for $15 to do whatever they ask.
Child Abuse: In the home, children are abused for many reasons of which one is that they do not earn enough money by begging. They are given an amount to earn this way, and a time limit (maybe per month) to earn from $0.50 to $1.00 or more and if they do not obtain that goal, they are punished in one of many different ways. Some are punished by a belt, stick of wood, hanging upside down from the ceiling rafters, being hit with a fist, and/or by severe verbal abuse. Some are punished by cutting off all their hair or scared with a hot charcoal stick. At some point the child will leave, not to return.
Sexual, emotional, and physical abuse is done in different degrees. At first the child learns to hide the outward seen symptoms but at sometime it is time for them to leave and this can be from age 5 and up. The scars are for life unless some one like us, which there are very few, can find them and take them into our care with respect, honor and the most important part, love.
Street Children just happen by usually no choice on their behalf. Adults die, don't want them any more, or abuse them on way or another. Within a few months they are hard core Street Children being used by any adult that can find them. Read the Statistics for India and find the very, very said realm that these children live. WE want YOU to provide the additional support to take one or more children from this "not a child's life" into giving them a home, love, care, and being safe, to grow into being a responsible adult. Go to our Sponsor a Child Page and contact us right NOW.
This love is possible through your love of children and you commitment to caring for a child with your support.