Association for Light and Life

In different countries there are million children out in the street vendors and begging for alms, that suppose to be spending their time inside the school. And most children are linked to bad habits and influence by drugs. The most common substances are inhalants, like solvent/rugby and cough syrups, followed by marijuana and cocaine. Marijuana and cocaine in particular are drugs that are shared with friends whenever one friend member is lucky enough to have money to buy them. Moreover, many street children take more drugs more than once, some as often as a daily intake of solvent/rugby.

Generally, street children are thin, untidy, and undernourished, hardly equipped to survive the hazards of everyday living and working on the streets. Some of the hazards they face include sickness, physical injuries from vehicular accidents, street fights, harassment from both extortionists and police, sexual exploitation by paedophiles and pimps, exposure to substance abuse and sexually transmitted diseases.  Government should stay focus on this matter cause the future lays on our children’s hand.