Street Children – Bangladesh

STREET CHILDREN BANGLADESH Children in Bangladesh welcome to face many challenges. In Bangladesh over 40 million race argon living below the poverty line and most of these families do not make own land. They are living and farming in flood-prone areas and face yearly natural disasters, inefficient agricultural technologies, low education, a polluted environment. These family did not get proper health services and is in limited employment. Undernourishment is the common issue for the children. 50 percent of children under age 5 are undernourishment.Children are facing imperative trouble with schooling. Very small percent of them complete their primary education. Among them only 40 percent girls complete their primary education. In this situation they posit our help. attend to the children. This is my very small step to help the Street Children in Bangladesh. They need our help. So we should forward our secure hand to help hem. For doing this kind of capital of the United St ates job money is not only the solution, we need the people with trusty heart and I think you are the one of them.I hope your cooperation to do well-nighthing good for the children. So come on and cooperate with us with your good think, knowledge, even with a single word. Help the children. If you are stuck for a few minutes at a traffic signal in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, you will probably see children rushing up to the windows of your vehicle. Some of these children defy flowers some make believe a stack of books in the crook of their arms, some carry bundles of newspapers and some have candy for sale. They try their best to hit sympathy from commuters to sell their goods.This painful scene is ubiquitous on the courses of Dhaka. These road children are known as Pothoshishu. The street is where they earn their living. The total play of street children in Bangladesh is estimated at 400,000. Almost half of these children live in Dhaka city alone. A very large percentage o f these children are young girls. These female street children are especially vulnerable to wickedness and exploitation. On March, 2012 Unnayan Onneshan published a report titled social connexion of the street girls in the context of Dhaka city, Bangladesh pdf.The research shows that the majority of the street girls (37. 50%) sell flowers for a living. 18. 80% of these young girls are coerce into prostitution, 6. 25 % work in the clothing industry, 6. 25% become beggars, 12. 50% start as shopkeepers and 6. 25% are paper-hawkers. Almost half of these girls have a measly daily income of Tk. 101-299 ($1. 25-$3. 75). The daily income of 43. 75 % of the girls is Tk. 300 (US$3. 75) and above. exactly they seem to be the lucky ones, because 6. 25 % of the street girls earn slight than Tk. 100 ($1. 25) per day.Almost 45% of these girls do not receive any discussion from government medical facilities or clinics. 3 out of 10 of these girls have never been enrolled in any type of educati onal institution. Most women in Bangladesh are vulnerable to fall victim to abuse such as rape, murder, eve teasing, dowry and acid attacks. But the street children who spend their puerility under the open skies of Dhaka face such risks on a daily basis. This graph is taken from the above report, which shows statistics of violences inflicted upon street girls