Social Sciences & Psychology
Volume: 148 , Issue: 1 , May Published Date: 09 May 2024
Publisher Name: IJRP
Views: 477 , Download: 652 , Pages: 384 - 393
DOI: 10.47119/IJRP1001481520246441
Publisher Name: IJRP
Views: 477 , Download: 652 , Pages: 384 - 393
DOI: 10.47119/IJRP1001481520246441
Authors
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1 | Ansherina M. Brioso |
Abstract
Street life is a challenge for survival, even for adults, and is yet more difficult for children. They live within the city but are unable to take advantage of the comforts of urban life. It is suggested that extreme poverty was the primary cause for the increasing numbers of street children. Lack of awareness among illiterate parents regarding educational opportunities kept most children away from school attendance. Factors such as lack of an educational ambience at home made it difficult for the children to work on their lessons outside the premises of the institution. This study focused on the drivers and success story of the life and work of street children specifically in Naga City, Camarines Sur. By living and working in the street, these children face the highest level of risk. Street children more often suffer from different health infections, inadequate nutrition, mental disorders, and drug abuse. They are more often victims of abuse, sexual exploitation, and trafficking. Further, this study also aimed to assess the effectiveness in the role of social work interventions in ensuring the rights of street children. The enormous problems faced by the street children in the last several years are widely dispersed, but for several years they were not in societies projects and programs. They are excluded from economic, social, and political processes. However, only a few institutions are involved in helping them to sustain their livelihood. Although exposure to harsh reality at an early age had resulted in a premature loss of innocence in most, making them sometimes difficult to work with, the government organizations were striving to ensure child participation and the growth of individual identity.